Just because summer has turned into fall does not mean your kids must stop swimming. In addition to being a crucial life skill if you spend a lot of time around the water, swimming can also help you have improved health, strength, coordination, confidence, and enhanced cognitive growth and emotional well-being. The good news is that there is still space for kids to enroll in swim classes, so the progress they made this summer does not go for naught. Aquatics Director Heidi Honold says there is a bridge program for kids who have completed swim lessons but are not necessarily ready to join the Door County swim team.

Honold says that to make all of the Door County YMCA’s swim programs happen, they need more swim lesson teachers and lifeguards. Like signing up for swim lessons, Honold encourages people to log online or enter the Door County YMCA’s facilities in Fish Creek or Sturgeon Bay to apply. You can learn more about the Door County YMCA’s swim programming by listening to this week’s Y Wednesday podcast.