Cathys School for Lil Fish

We are a family-run swim business located in Boise, Idaho that has been serving families from all over the Treasure Valley for more than 15 years. We are passionate about educating children and adults of all ages about water safety, basic swimming skills, and stroke development in a safe, positive, encouraging, and FUN environment. We teach small c... lasses in a warm, heated pool with excellent, motivated teachers who work very hard to ensure that children learn how to really SWIM! What really separates our swimming lessons from other schools is our passion for seeing each and every child succeed. This love of teaching and of swimming comes from a rich family legacy. Cathys School for Lil Fish opened its pool in the summer of 1997, but our involvement with teaching swimming has a history that stretches back to 1960. Cathy is my daughter (Im Cindy) and she encouraged our family to start up a new swim school when we moved to Boise. Long before that, over 4,000 little swimmers had been lovingly introduced to the water by Miss Gwen. Miss Gwen, my mother and Cathys grandmother, began her devotion to teaching the youngest children to swim and love the water because in 1960 I toddled into the deep end of the Philadelphia naval base pool and promptly sank to the bottom. Miss Gwen, my mom, dove in and rescued me and decided that day that every child within her reach would learn how to swim as early as possible. She was discouraged when she began searching for a place that taught infants and toddlers......because there werent any. At that time the Red Cross suggested starting children in swim classes when they turned 6. So, Miss Gwen started developing her own curriculum for the youngest children. My sisters were introduced to the water when their umbilical chords fell off as my Mom told me, and they were proficient swimmers long before they could enter official swim classes with the Red Cross. My mom began teaching others in 1969 and soon had many successful younger swimmers. Thats where I learned to teach, as I assisted ...Read More