Welcome to York City Baths Club. Our aim is to teach York to swim and swim fast.
We provide great opportunites for swimmers of all abilities and give them the chance of competing at the highest level. We offer learn to swim lessons, competitive swimming training, masters swimming and water polo schemes. We are also an accredited Swim 21 club
Pictured opposite is Bill Furniss, Head Coach of British Swimming, with some of our swimmers when he visited YCBC for swimskills day funded by SportEngland
LEARN TO SWIM & SWIMMING LESSONS
We provide a high standard of York based swimming lessons in a safe environment for children of all abilities from 4 years of age.
We have 15 qualifed swimming teachers with over 80 years of swimming teaching experience between them. These friendly swimming teachers offer swimming lessons for all abilities from learn to swim schemes to club competition swimmers.
Our teaching scheme is structured to follow the 10 levels of the ASA's National Plan for Teaching Swimming. We focus on the children gaining confidence in the water and having fun whilst developing their technique, skill and stamina.
We hold swimming lessons at 3 separate locations in and around York.
All teachers are fully insured and disclosure checked for child safety.
COMPETITIVE SWIMMING
We offer quality coaching for competitive swimmers, providing a path from our learn to swim programme right through to the highest level of competition.
Our training section consists of 8 training squads that covers all aspects of developing a swimmers needs. Each squad has its own qualified coaches, entry criteria, training times and training locations. Throughout these squads they will be taught :-
- Advanced Stroke technique
- Starting, turning, finishing.
- Training discipline (warming up, cooling down, pace clocks, endurance)
- Gala procedures
- Competition advice.
- Nutrition advice
We also offer training for water polo and masters swimmers.