Category: About FOSS

Welcome to 2025 Wrapped, Foss Swim School edition! It’s been another big year in the pool! Let’s see how all that swimming adds up across all 33 Foss Swim Schools. Each lesson helps students become safer, more confident swimmers. So how much progress in 2025? Here’s one way to look ...

By Foss Swim School   As Foss Swim School continues to expand in the Denver, CO area, our team members moving into the area are also excited for the chance to meet new people, have new experiences, and expand the learn-to-swim options available to residents of the Mile High City. ...

By Foss Swim School   Moving to a new city is always exciting, and it’s no different for Foss Swim School. Long established in Midwestern cities, FOSS is opening four new schools in the Denver area in the fall of 2025, in Northglenn, Westminster, Castle Rock, and Lone Tree later ...

By Foss Swim School   As the new year opens, we are excited to see all the ways growth was a part of the story at Foss Swim School. From the skill growth of our students to the new schools FOSS has opened, growth is happening on every level. We’d ...

Welcome to 2024 Wrapped, Foss Swim School edition! It’s been a big year in the pool! Let’s look at the numbers and events that defined the year that was. Every moment spent becoming a better swimmer helps students become safer, stronger, and more confident. How do you put a number ...

By Foss Swim School   At Foss Swim School, we teach life-changing swim skills through fun activities, and while our heart may be in the water, we have found a new way to carry that same spirit to a new audience with a water-safety themed Story Walk in the St. ...

By Foss Swim School   Located 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, bordering the community of Naperville, you’ll find the village of Bolingbrook, a growing suburb that’s home to the newest Foss Swim School. The area is rapidly growing – there are even a few farms within the city limits ...

By Sheri Scheidt, Director of Talent Acquisition, Foss Swim School   A swim school can have a state-of-the-art pool, amenities that make lessons more enjoyable, and a great curriculum on paper, but if it doesn’t have the right people teaching, students still won’t achieve their swimming goals. Fortunately, Foss Swim ...

By Foss Swim School   Foss Swim School continues to expand the reach of our unique brand of swim instruction in the Chicago area, and we are excited to welcome our new Glenview location into the FOSS family! Located in the northern suburbs, we are serving communities between our schools ...

By Foss Swim School May is Water Safety Month, and every year Foss Swim School makes a special effort to highlight the importance of respecting water and learning to swim. For pediatricians like Dr. Julie Ewasiuk, who practices at South Lake Pediatrics in a suburb of Minneapolis, any month and ...

By Foss Swim School   Foss Swim School has a number of locations around the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, but our new Apple Valley school has extended our proven swimming curriculum to a new audience. As our southernmost location in the Twin Cities, our Apple Valley school is already enrolling new ...

By Foss Swim School It’s been quite a year for world-championship swimmer Regan Smith, a Foss Swim School alum who is a strong contender for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. While the final team will be determined in June, Regan’s history of success at the 2020 Olympic Games ...

By Foss Swim School At FOSS, our motto is “Love Water,” and we know that an essential part of this love is understanding how to be safe around it. Water safety doesn’t happen by accident, and it isn’t a one-time lesson people learn at a specific point in their lives. ...

By Foss Swim School   We are fortunate as a team and as a company to be able to make such a positive impact on the world, and we have fun while doing it! Teaching people to swim both enriches and saves lives, and there’s nothing we’d rather be doing. ...

By Susan Foss, co-founder of Foss Swim School   As the 30th anniversary year of Foss Swim School draws to a close, I feel so happy and proud of what this school has become and of the exceptional people who work here. We knew from the start that to be ...