Sonoma Splash Aquatic Programs

Sonoma Splash Aquatic Programs offers swim lessons, learn-to-swim programs, water fitness classes, masters swimming, swim camps, lap swimming, competitive swim programs and events, aquatic recreation, water safety, and physical therapy. The program uses a 25-yard pool with 16 lanes and a smaller warmer-water instructional pool for these activities.

• Schedule: Competition pool hours include weekday and weekend daytime and evening options, and the warm teaching pool has weekday and weekend daytime and evening options, with adjusted off-season hours starting November 3rd.

Sonoma Splash Aquatic Programs is part of Sonoma Valley Health and Recreation Association, which partners with Sonoma Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) to operate a financially sustainable state-of-the-art aquatic facility that serves as a community hub where residents can learn to swim, take part in aquatic activities, and have fun in the water. The facility is used for physical education for students, competitive swim programs and events, learn-to-swim programs, lap swimming, aquatic recreation, water safety, and physical therapy, and it offers ADA accessible hours, scholarship programs, and the ability to purchase monthly or annual passes online or day passes at the front window, with an online waiver required for the first visit. The program’s stated goal is to have every child in Sonoma water safe by the third grade, and it is connected with Boys and Girls Clubs swim lessons programs and the Sonoma Sea Dragons guppies program, as well as other nonprofits and local governments through partnerships and committee involvement.

Aquatic Director Jane Hansen has a long background in swimming and water polo, including starting competitive swimming in 1976, being taught by Olympic Gold medalist Ann Curtis Cuneo, competing for multiple swim teams and Terra Linda High School, becoming the first girl on the boys’ varsity water polo team there, earning a BA in Communication from UC San Diego while captaining a water polo team that won two National Championships, training with the Junior National water polo team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, owning and running Sonoma Aquatic Club for 12 years, and continuing as a USA masters swimmer, water polo player, and coach. Assistant Aquatic Director Hannah Martin grew up in Sonoma, learned to swim in the high school pool through Boys and Girls Clubs swim lessons and the Sonoma Sea Dragons guppies program, swam with the Sonoma Sea Dragons from age 11, competed for four years on the Sonoma Valley High School varsity swim team and still holds team records more than 20 years later, accepted a full athletic scholarship for swimming to San Diego State University where she studied kinesiology, and returned in 2019 to coach with the Sonoma Sea Dragons, coaching swimmers who have qualified for the Junior Olympics, Far Westerns, Sectionals, and Futures meets. The leadership team also includes Board President Paul Favaro and Board Directors Mary Favaro, Bruce Abbot, and Robin Pitts.

The organization offers Red Cross Certification Courses. In a testimonial, Assistant Aquatic Director Hannah Martin describes the goal to have every child in Sonoma water safe by the third grade as connected to her own experience of not being water safe in third grade and seeing swimming as a life skill and lifesaving skill. Board Director Bruce Abbot notes in his testimonial that his first job in high school was as a lifeguard and swim instructor, that he has been a swimmer and diver his whole life, and that he enjoys working with the Sonoma Splash team.

Last updated March 28, 2026.