Utah Swim Academy, Provo | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

I’m choosing to leave an honest review because with all the glowing 5 star reviews I felt very alone in my lesser experience and kept wondering why we were the unlucky ones.
While I can’t recommend Utah Swim Academy based on our experience, I have 2 friends who brought their children and had good experiences!
We loved the instructor my child started with, but we only got 6 lessons with her before she left for the summer. My child had gotten comfortable with her and was asking to go to swim each day. She told me that my child was doing well and progressing quickly. Then we had 2 lessons with random instructors that had openings while trying to decide which instructor to continue with. Once we picked another instructor there was a day where the instructor (who is known to “push” kids) let my child try floating on their own/struggle a little bit. My child was under water multiple times for longer than I felt comfortable watching from the side, but I’m not an instructor and assumed it was part of the process.
Since that lesson, I felt my child regressed back to crying through the entire lesson, cried when we talked about going to swim, cried as soon as we pulled into the parking lot.
After 11 lessons I called the company for advice and they suggested a personality mismatch between my child and the instructor and recommended switching instructors. We moved forward with a new instructor but my child continued to be upset on our way to swim, through the entire lesson, and now even when going to the pool with us. After 18 lessons I decided to stop going as it was not feeling like a good experience for my child or myself at that point.
Who knows if things would have been different if we had all lessons with first instructor, or if my child started too late, or maybe isn’t ready, or just had a single bad experience that we now have to work back from.
While I’m not an angry parent, it is discouraging to feel that my child is no more confident/comfortable in the water after 18 lessons and an investment of >$400.

We have loved our experience with Utah Swim Academy! My 3-year-old has had swim lessons at other places in previous years. I was used to 30 min group lessons (of up to 4 children) at the other swim schools.

Initially, I wasn’t sure if 20 min lessons would be enough for my child to learn. I was pleasantly surprised that my child got much more skill development and enjoyment with Utah Swim Academy’s private 20 min lessons than other group lessons for 30 mins.

Private lessons allows to receive individualized lessons for my child. There are no distractions of other children within the group crying or misbehaving, and no time is wasted waiting for your child’s turn to swim.

The swim lesson prices are very reasonable for the quality of the lesson. I also love the online system available for reserving. It makes it easy to look through the schedules filtering by days or instructors.

We have been so happy with UT Swim Academy and won’t go anywhere else for swim lessons anymore!

I have been so impressed with not just Utah Swim Academy, but the instructors know exactly what they’re doing and how to handle my 20 month old. Sam and Abbie are my go to instructors. Sam has some of the most unique techniques and helping my Willow feel confident in the water. Abbie can connect with any age and the way she is consistent with the skills is so important. I AILL ALWAYS recommend Utah Swim Academy. Worth EVERY penny. Because of these 2 instructors I will be here year round.
The website is so easy to schedule and keep me in control of my own schedule.
Regardless if your kid is enrolled or not SIGN UP for the emails, the flash sales and deals are worth it.
I have been overly satisfied with the owner Jody and this company. Thank you Utah Swim Academy for letting me feel comfortable and confident helping my baby grow and feel confident in the water!!!!