Calm Waters Aquatics

03/30/2025

Hi everyone. Color matters when buying swimsuits for the family. Please take this into consideration. Thanks.

03/02/2025

Tomorrow, Sunday, March 2 please bring the kids to my moving sale. 110 D**e Circle, 10:00-3:00. Selling all of my toys, teaching gear and snorkeling items.
Fins - $3/pair
Face masks - $5 youth, $10 adults
Polar bears - $5
Animanoodles - $1
Solid Noodles - $4
Lifejackets & puddle jumpers - $2
Sanitized used goggles - $1
New goggles - $3
Kick boats - $5
Games - $1
Puzzles - $1
Large blue float mats (holds 2 kids) - $10
Chameleon watering can - $2
Elephant water spouts - $4
Momma/baby float toys - $1
Underwater hoops - $2
Bag of pit balls - $2
Pelican fish catcher - $2
Shark fish catcher - $2
Toddler fishing nets with fish - $1
Rain clouds - $1
Percussion eggs - $1
Float bars - $4
Kickboards - $5
Hand paddles - $3
Etc., etc., etc.
Plenty of free toys.
I need everything gone. Please help me out!
Free toys

02/03/2025

Don and I are moving from Pagosa Springs to NM. We're selling the cabin and are actively house hunting in western NM for a summer home. We'll still spend winters in Elephant Butte, NM. EB is too hot in the summer so we're looking for a home in the western mountains to enjoy cooler summers.

This means I'm finally retiring!!!

45 memorable years in Aquatics! So many kids and their families continue to enrich my life (some of "my kids" have kids of their own and a couple of you have grandkids!) Such a rewarding career! I will miss it, but feel like I've fulfilled my lifelong commitment to teach and coach people of all ages to love to swim. Someone recently asked me how many kids I've coached/taught. Thousands and thousands! I've always said that the kids taught me more than they will ever be able to say they learned from me.

Too many people to thank. My mentors, head coaches I worked for, my assistant coaches (especially Doug, Will and Kathy Grady), instructors, athletes, learners and their parents who supported, encouraged and uplifted me. The swimteam parents of Snowfox Swimteam, Colorado Springs Swimteam and the Rockrimmon Swim Club did all of the behind-the-scenes hard work that allowed me to focus on coaching. I can't begin to imagine the amount of driving you all did, how many hotels we all stayed in, how many of you kids went on to teach or coach swimming. BJ Bedford, Olympic gold medalist and 3-event world champion, you not only taught me how to swim Backstroke correctly, but you taught me how Backstrokers need to train. Backstroke was always my weakest stroke to coach. You helped change that.

It has always been such a privilege and an honor to teach kids and adults to swim and to be able to coach swimming athletes who had such a keen passion for their sport. I loved the recreational, developing swimteam kids as much as the elite performers.

I learned I am a terrible Aquatics Director (Farmington, NM and briefly in Meeker, CO). I MUST be in the water or on deck, teaching or coaching - not sitting behind a desk or in endless meetings, training staff who come and go so quickly, catering to the fickle public.

After I left coaching, I thrived best while running my own swim schools. I had some AMAZINGLY talented instructors and program coordinators. At a National Swim School Association annual conference, I was told that I would never have a successful swim school unless I got out of the water and stepped away from teaching. Glad I never followed that business model. I was never in it to make money and sure enough, I never did. I define success differently.

So, thank you to all of my supporters, learners & athletes along with their parents, instructors, professional peers! I am YOUR biggest fan! ❤️❤️❤️

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween 🎃 everyone (if you observe it). I have 9 private lesson spots left for 3yrs. & up.
Tomorrow, Friday, 11/1 - 3:00
Saturday, 11/2 - Full
Thursday, 11/7 - 3:30
Friday, 11/8 - 3:30, 4:00
Saturday,11/9 - 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 1:00

Private lesson cost:
1 child - $35
2 children - $40
3 children - regular rate of $36 for a family of 3

Please reply here or email me:
[email protected]

Thanks and stay safe out there.

Susan

10/10/2024

2 weeks of group lessons and 2 weeks of private lessons remaining in 2024.

GROUP LESSONS:
October 17, 18, 19
October 24, 25, 26
Thursdays - 4:00-6:00
Fridays - 3:00-6:00
Saturdays -.10:30-2:00

Adult lessons Thursday, 10/10, 17 @ 5:30
And Saturdays, 10/12, 19, 26 @ 10:30

All other lessons are for 3 yr. olds and up.

Lessons are at Hillside Inn. Water temperature is a comfortable 86 degrees. Clean, well kept indoor facility. 3 children per class. Susan is teaching. Cost for multiple siblings: 1 child = $14, 2 children = $26, 3 children = $36

GROUP LESSON OPENINGS

Thursday, 10/17 - 5:30 (2 adults)

Friday, 10/18 - 3:00 (2), 4:30 (3)

Saturday, 10/19 - 10:30 (1 adult), 12:00 (1)

Thursday, 10/24 - 5:30 (1)

Friday, 10/25 - 3:00 (2), 4:30 (2)

Saturday, 10/26 - 10:30 (2 adults), 12:00 (1)

PRIVATE LESSONS
Thursday, (NOT on Halloween!) 11/7 only:
4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30

Friday, 11/1 & 11/8:
4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30

Saturday, 11/2 & 11/9:
11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 1:00

30 min. private lessons cost:
1 child = $35
2 children = $40
3 children = $45

PLEASE EMAIL SUSAN AT: [email protected] to reserve any of the October or November lessons!

NEXT LESSONS WILL BE MAY 2025.

Thanks, Susan

04/24/2024

Hello everyone. I found us a pool site at Hillside Inn, Pagosa! The water is cooler than the Rec Center by 2-4 degrees. I'll be trying to work with the owners to have them bring it up to 84 degrees.

Still no Parenting Water Babies classes for 2 year olds due to water temperature.

The swim schedule runs June 10-August 29.

M/W, 11:00-2:00 (last class starts at 1:30)
Tu/Th, 4:00-6:00 (last class starts at 5:30)

Cost is $14/30-min. lesson for first child (or adult)
$12 - second child
$10 - third child
$8 - 4th child
30-min. Private Lesson - one child $35
30-min. Private Lesson - two children $45

The Cristian Korte Memorial Swim Fund is available to anyone who needs financial assistance for swim lessons. There is an application process. Even if you have been sponsored in previous years, you have to reapply each year. It's an easy 3-step process. Go to www.swimmingisalifeskill.org to apply. Put Pagosa Springs in the message field. A minimum of 6 lessons must be booked. There is no limit on the number of lessons you can book. Attendance is required for all sponsored lessons booked.

At the end of every day, the Calendar of available class spots on the www.CalmWatersAquatics.com website will be updated. Refer to it before requesting a date/time.Submit all booking requests through the website's Booking page. Payment will be due in full for all booked lessons on your child's first lesson (cash or check only).

Read through Policies, Pricing, Q & A before sending a Booking Request. All requests are taken on a first-come-first-served basis.
A confirmation email will be sent to you with an invoice as soon as possible. I am getting ready for a studio show in southern NM this week and am burning the candle at both ends.

Let's have FUN this summer! I'm looking forward to teaching the kiddos again and meeting new families!

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS POST.

TO BOOK LESSONS. USE THE BOOKINGS PAGE ON THE WEBSITE!

Cheers,
Susan

Home of theI•Can•Swim ProgramPagosa Springs, CO The I•Can•Swim curriculum was developed by the owner of Calm Waters Aquatics, Susan McKnight.There are 4 age divisions*. Each division has it’s own skill progressions and learning objectives.*Due to water temperature at our 2024 pool site, th...

02/23/2024

I just found out that the Rec Center cannot accommodate my lessons program this summer. The Quality Inn pool has been permanently closed. In other words, I have nowhere to teach. Please try to get in to the Rec Center lessons (if you live in the PLPOA) before they completely fill up! I'm so sorry everyone! I'm out of options, unless one of you can offer up a solution. I just have to accept that it's out of my control. 😥

12/19/2022

4 openings left in the Christmas Break Session that starts Tuesday.
9:00, 10:30, 11:30, 12:00
Please contact Anika Thomas to register.
[email protected]

12/13/2022

12 openings left in the 6-day Christmas Break Session!

Where: Quality Inn
When: 9:00-1:00 (9:30 and 10:00 are full)
Days/Dates: Tu/W/Th, 12/20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29
Cost: discounted rate $66 (regular price $84)
Teacher: Anika
Register: via email to Susan [email protected]

12/13/2022

Swimmer fridge magnets. These are the colors available.

11/01/2022

I have these Swimmer signs that I designed. These are shown on rock slabs. I also mount them on wood. The ones mounted on wood are $15. On rock slabs, $25. If you want just the sign, I can put magnets on the back and you can put it on the fridge ($10). All available colors pictured. I have one Mermaid left. It is purple and smaller than the Swimmer. Swimmer is 5" long x 2" high x 1/4" thick. Let me know if you'd like to order one.