Underwood Pool Programs

Torpedoes Swim Team

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7/08/2025-8/14/2025
The Torpedoes is Belmont Recreation's summer swim team! The swim team meets Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings. All Torpedoes swimmers must have comfortably passed the Underwood Pool Deep End test. Practices will focus on stroke work and building endurance. Swimmers will learn and expand their skills in starts, turns, the four competitive strokes, relays and drills.
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Swim Lessons

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Beginner Lessons: Levels 1 & 2

Level 1

Prerequisite: Child must be able to pay attention for 30 minutes at a time.
  • Child must be comfortable jumping into water, fully submerging head, with or without instructor.
  • Child must be able to kick with a barbel on their back and stomach.
  • In order to pass this level, the child's kick's must propel themselves forward with proper body alignment.
  • Children must be comfortable and able to be in a supported back and stomach float.

Level 2

Prerequisite: Swimmers should be able to kick through the water while holding onto a barbel or kickboard. Swimmers must be able to hold their breath underwater for 10 seconds, and feel comfortable in a supported front and back float.
  • Child must be able to float on their back and stomach unsupported for 10 seconds.
  • Child must be able to perform "rocket ships" (streamlines) on their backs and stomach.
  • Child must be able to retrieve object from the bottom of the pool.
  • Child must be able to kick on back unsupported.
  • Child must be able to jump into deep water.
  • Child must be able to kick on stomach for 15 yards with rotary breathing (breathing to side) and proper body position.
  • Child must be able to kick on stomach in streamline.

Intermediate Lessons: Levels 3 & 4

Level 3

Prerequisite: Swimmers must have a mastery of level 2 skills. Due to the foundational skills introduced in level 3, a child may repeat level 3 multiple times prior to successful completion.
  • Child must be able to swim 15 yards freestyle and backstroke.
  • Child must be able to jump feet first into the pool from the diving board and exit pool independently.
  • Child must be able to tread water for 30 seconds.
  • Child must be able to perform a kneeling dive.
  • Child must be able to do underwater front flips.

Level 4

Prerequisite: Swimmers must have a mastery of level 3 skills.
  • Child must be able to swim 25 yards freestyle with breathing to both sides.
  • Child must be able to swim 25 yards backstroke, with a streamline push off and shoulder and hip rotation.
  • Child must be able to perform a proper standing dive.
  • Child must be able to tread water for 60 seconds.
  • Child must be able to do proper backstroke and dolphin kick for 15 yards.

Advanced Lessons: Levels 5 & 6

Level 5

Prerequisite: Swimmers must have a mastery of level 4 skills.
  • Child must be able to swim 50 yards freestyle with a push off streamline.
  • Child must be able to demonstrate a flip turn at the wall.
  • Child must be able to swim 50 yards backstroke.
  • Child must be able to demonstrate proper backstroke open turn.
  • Child must be able to swim 25 yards backstroke with a correct pull and timing.
  • Child must be able to swim 25 yards dolphin kick on their back and stomach.
  • Child must be able to tread water for 1 minute and 30 seconds.
  • Child must be able to demonstrate a proper racing start.

Level 6

Prerequisite: Swimmer must have a mastery of level 5 skills. Children will build on their endurance from level 5.
  • Child must be able to swim 75 yards freestyle and backstroke with proper flip turns.
  • Child must be bale to swim 50 yards backstroke.
  • Child must be able to swim 25 yards butterfly.
  • Child must be able to perform proper Individual Medley (I.M.) turns.

Beginner Synchronized Swimming

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7/26/2025-8/16/2025

This four-week class will introduce swimmers to the basics of synchronized swimming. The class is led by Belmont’s own Yanna Hauck, a Jr. world champion and six time national champion. Your kids will learn the basic techniques of eggbeater (treading water), sculling, and boosts through structured drills, and put these skills together to create a fun, beginner-friendly routine. Parents are invited to attend the final class to watch the routine and see what their swimmers have learned! Come and enjoy the beautiful, challenging, and enchanting world of synchronized swimming. The class is for boys and girls ages 7 and up who are able to pass the deep end test. If after the class, the swimmers are interested in continuing with the sport, the coach can provide information and recommend joining teams in Cambridge and Andover.

Private Swim Lessons

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Private Swim Lessons are available to both children and adults.

An Underwood Pool Membership is required in order to register.

Private Lessons are available only in sessions of four (4) 30-Minute sessions.

Belmont Recreation will assign students to instructors in the order in which people registered. After assignment, an instructor will reach out to within 5 days. Assignments occur on an ongoing basis based on lifeguard/WSI availability and demand.

After you complete your 4 lessons, if you wish to continue, you will go to the back of the line. You cannot simply extend your lessons with an instructor immediately following your 4 lessons unless there is no waitlist.

Upon the completion of your 4 swim lessons, both the lifeguard and student will sign an agreement stating the lessons have been fulfilled

It is highly recommended that the 4 lessons be completed within 2 weeks of the agreed upon schedule.

If a student is late or misses the lesson without communication, the student is still charged for the lesson.

Tipping is NOT allowed. Money should not be exchanged with the instructor under any circumstances.

Lessons must take place during public swim hours when the instructor is not scheduled to work and will be run by a WSI (Water Safety Instructor) or a Lifeguard.

Groups for group lessons are not arranged by the Recreation Department and Swimmers in semi private lessons must be at the same ability.

Private Swim Lessons MUST be used in the 2025 summer season. Refunds will not be given for swim lessons that are not taken by the end of the summer. Lessons paid for in the summer of 2025 will not be credited towards future summers.

Private Swim Lesson Options

  • 1:1 Instruction: one swimmer, one instructor
  • 2:1 Instruction: (two swimmers, one instructor) only one swimmer registers & add the additional swimmers name in the end of the registration process, both swimmers must have a membership to the pool. Swimmers must be at the same swimming levels.
  • 3:1 Instruction: (three swimmers, one instructor) only one swimmer registers & add the additional swimmers name in the end of the registration process, all swimmers must have a membership to the pool. Swimmers must be at the same swimming levels.