Youth Swimming

Registration: If registering online, search by class name or code. If downloading a form, email it to Teo Albu or drop it off at the J's front desk.

Waves Swim Team

Contact Teo.Albu@theJ.org, 703.537.3053 for more information about prorated fees, fee payments, placement guides.

The Waves is a USA Swimming Club founded on the desire to lead its swimmers in reaching the highest level in their swimming. Waves Swim Team helps children acquire the training and experience necessary for competitive swimming while nurturing a love for the sport of swimming and developing the values and skills for success in life. New swimmers who did not swim with the team in the fall must pay an additional $145 mandatory USAS insurance fee.

Winter/Spring Session

Waves Senior Prep/Age Group Select

Winter/Spring Session

Waves Junior Waves

Winter/Spring Session

Waves Age Group

Winter/Spring Session

Waves Senior Prep/Age Group Select

Winter/Spring Session

Mini Waves Swim Team

Mini Waves Swim Team, our pre-swim team level, is a non-competitive team that helps children to continue improving their strokes and endurance, as well as prepare for future competitive swim team participation.

Level I Beginner

Prerequisite: Child must be able to backstroke or freestyle one length of the pool. Level I students work to improve basic swimming skills.

Level II Intermediate

Prerequisite: Child must be able to swim 50 meters using either freestyle or the backstroke.

Nonstop practices refine students’ strokes, and they begin to learn the breaststroke and the butterfly.

Level III Advanced

Prerequisites: Students should be able to swim 50 meters nonstop and be able to swim freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

Junior Galim

Not quite ready for swim team? Not able to backstroke or freestyle one length of the pool? Junior Galim is uniquely designed to help swimmers build their skills in front and backstroke and prepare them for the next swim team level, Mini Waves.

This program is for swimmers who can put their face in the water and combine arm and leg actions on front and /or back for 5 body lengths and float unassisted for 10 seconds. The class is limited to five students.