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We love seeing the littlest members of our FOSS family coming into the pool area every time a Backfloat Baby class starts! Learn more about Backfloat Baby classes. To ensure a safe and positive experience for all our students, we have some rules and expectations in place for Backfloat Baby ...

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 ...

Swimming is a skill that can always be improved upon. Whether getting in the pool for the first time or being an Olympic medalist, with the right guidance, a swimmer can learn something new or improve their performance. The same goes for swim schools. In response to feedback from FOSS ...

Meet Areana Rock Which school are you at? Bolingbrook, IL How long have you been at FOSS? Just over a year.  What inspired you to become a Swim Teacher? My dad was a lifeguard, and I spent most of my childhood in and out of the pool, so when I ...

With summer on the horizon, for many families it’s swimsuit shopping season. This year, make a choice that’s not only stylish, but also helps swimmers be safer by choosing bold, visible colors that don’t camouflage easily in a pool, lake or other body of water.   Natalie Livingston, co-founder of ...

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 ...

In August of 2024, our co-founders, Jon and Susan Foss, traveled to Mission Viejo, California, (the swimming Mecca in the United States) for Jon to compete at the USA Master’s National Championship. Jon swam in 6 events: 50m Fly, 100 Fly, 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Mixed Medley relay and ...

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   Paul Smith and his wife don’t know exactly where their daughter Regan got her swimming ability from. “I’m comfortable in a hotel pool,” he said. “Swimming for me as a parent was something where I’d say, ‘I want you to be safe.’” It’s safe then ...

As Foss Swim School continues to bring our brand of swimming education to the greater St. Louis, MO area, we are excited to share some details of our newest location in the heart of Creve Coeur, a western suburb of the city. Creve Coeur opened its doors for fall quarter, ...

Our new Foss Swim School in Burnsville, MN opens for lessons in March 2023, and we want to share a little flavor of what’s in store at our newest location! We’re already excited to be a part of the Burnsville community. In fact, our teachers and team members (joined by ...

The grand opening of our new Foss Swim School in Rock Hill, MO has special meaning to us and to this community. We love all our new locations, of course, but in this case it’s also a kind of rebirth: The Rock Hill school is in the same neighborhood and ...

This blog is the fourth part in our series breaking down the FOSS Swim Path®. Read the third part on Flip to Breathe. The ability to swim confidently is the ultimate goal we have established for the Foss Swim School Learn to Swim progression, the first and largest part of the ...

Every year has its challenges and triumphs – and sometimes both at once. Here at Foss Swim School, we are lucky to be able to teach both swimming and life skills, and also learn our own life lessons along the way. As 2022 winds down, we asked team members to ...

Foss Swim School takes pride in operating like a school, using a structure and schedule that delivers the best possible learning environment for students. It’s why we schedule weekly classes in quarters instead of drop-in classes – quarters allow students and instructors to develop rapport and trust and give students ...