Why Swim Sharks?
The Shaker Sharks are a part of USA Swimming. USA Swimming boasts America’s largest program of guided fitness activity for children.
The Shaker Sharks offer:
- Low coach to swimmer ratios to maximize individual instruction
- Practices prioritizing stroke development and technique
- Flexible practice schedules that allow swimmers to participate in other activities
- Professional, highly educated, and experienced coaches and staff
- Affordable and straight-forward billing
Why should you (or your child) be a swimmer?
- Swimming is an outstanding activity for people of all ages.
- Swimming promotes fitness and teaches children to strive for physical achievement. Many superstars in other sports started out as swimmers and gained strength and coordination that helped them to excel.
- Swimming is an exciting individual and team sport.
- Swimming is a technical and specialized activity involving extensive skill development.
- Swimming is a healthy "lifetime" activity. Participants may be 1 or 101 years old.
- Swimming is relatively injury free in comparison to other youth sports.
- Swimming teaches the life lessons of sport and sportsmanship which include learning to deal with winning and losing, as well as working with officials, teammates, and coaches.
- Swimming motivates participants to strive for self-improvement and teaches goal orientation.
- Swimming cultivates a positive mental attitude and high self-esteem












