Adult Level Swim Lessons

Adult Swim Classes

For teens and adults ages 13+

Adult Basics

Adult Basics is designed to help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming strokes, including the front crawl, breaststroke and elementary backstroke. Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water, in addition to those needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency. This class has a 1:10 instructor to swimmer ratio.

Adult Intermediate/Advanced

Adult Intermediate/Advanced is focused on improving participants’ proficiency in basic aquatic skills (including rotary breathing, surface dives and treading) and the six basic swimming strokes (i.e., front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke). Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water, in addition to those needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency. This class has a 1:10 instructor to swimmer ratio.

Requests for group swim lesson refunds must be submitted in writing to uncaquatics@unc.edu no less than 2 weeks prior to the first day of swim lessons. 

Fall 2026 Sessions

*We will not have Saturday session group lessons during the Fall, as the pools are closed during UNC home football game days. We will offer Saturday group lessons again in Spring 2027.

Registration for our Fall Group Swim Lessons will have staggered starts.  

•  Session 1 registration will open on August 1.
  • M/W registrations close on August 19.
• Session 2 registration will open on August 31.
  • M/W registrations close on September 23.
• Session 3 Registration will open on October 5.
  • M/W registrations will close on October 21

Monday and Wednesday Evenings – 8 Classes

Prices:

• 4 classes – $50 for members and $55 for non-member
• 8 classes – $85 for members and $90 for non-member

All UNC Aquatics programs are open to UNC faculty, staff, students and their families, and the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community.  If you are a member of the university community, you can use your ONYEN to login and register.  If you are a member of the university and would like to register your child or dependent, you can add them to your account by visiting stayactive.unc.edu, logging in with your ONYEN, clicking on your profile picture in the top right corner and updating your profile by clicking ADD FAMILY MEMBER at the bottom. 

If you do not have an ONYEN, please follow these steps to create an account:

• Log into stayactive.unc.edu
• Click on “Sign In” in the top right corner
• Click on “Sign Up” at the bottom of the pop up box
• Once you have created an account, go to the profile by selecting the username in the top right corner.
• Scroll down to “Add Family Member”
• Add the First Name and Last Name of the person participating in the class and click NEXT
• A Date of Birth for the participant is required to register for Aquatics programs.
• You are now ready to register for your desired program!