Sonoma Splash

Sonoma Splash offers swim lessons, learn-to-swim programs, water safety instruction, and swim camps, along with lap swimming, masters swimming, and competitive swim programs and events. The program also includes water fitness classes, aquatic recreation, water sports and recreation, and physical therapy sessions in the pools.

• Schedule: Regular in-season hours for both the competition pool and the warm teaching pool are Monday–Friday 6:30 AM–7:30 PM and Saturday–Sunday 8:00 AM–6:00 PM, with ADA accessible hours posted for each pool; starting November 3rd, off-season hours adjust to weekday and weekend blocks during mornings, mid-days, and evenings for both pools.

Sonoma Splash operates in a state-of-the-art multi-use high school aquatic center that includes a 25-yard pool with 16 lanes and a smaller warmer-water instructional pool, and it is a publicly accessible community-based swimming pool with ADA accessible pool hours. Lap swimming is available only in lanes without programming scheduled, and lane sharing and circle swimming are required if all lanes are full, with arriving swimmers expected to notify the current swimmer in the lane of their presence.

The program is led by Aquatic Director Jane Hansen and Assistant Aquatic Director Hannah Martin, with board leadership from Paul Favaro (Board President), Mary Favaro (Board Director), Bruce Abbot (Board Director), and Robin Pitts (Board Director). Jane Hansen has a long background in swimming and water polo, including swimming for multiple teams in Marin County, competing in high school and college, captaining the UC San Diego water polo team to two National Championships, training at the Olympic Training Center, owning and running Sonoma Aquatic Club for 12 years, and participating as a USA masters swimmer and water polo player and coach. Hannah Martin grew up swimming in the same high school pool, progressed through local programs including the Sonoma Sea Dragons, swam four years on the Sonoma Valley High School varsity swim team where she still holds team records, earned a full athletic scholarship for swimming to San Diego State University to study kinesiology, and has coached swimmers who have qualified for Junior Olympics, Far Westerns, Sectionals, and Futures meets.

Sonoma Splash’s mission states that Sonoma Valley Health and Recreation Association, known as Sonoma Splash, partners with Sonoma Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) to provide a financially sustainable state-of-the-art aquatic facility that serves as a community hub where Sonoma Valley residents can safely learn to swim, participate in aquatic activities, and have fun in the water. The mission and vision emphasize aquatics education and safety, water fitness, and water sports and recreation for all members of the Sonoma Valley community, with a focus on accessibility, affordability through scholarship programs and partnerships, and a financial model that supports long-term sustainability of the aquatic facility. The organization partners with SVUSD and other nonprofits and local governments, is associated with Boys and Girls Clubs swim lessons programs and the Sonoma Sea Dragons guppies program, and provides Sonoma Valley students and residents with a multi-use aquatic facility that offers meaningful access to the water for residents of all ages.

In a testimonial, Assistant Aquatic Director Hannah Martin describes how the goal to have every child in Sonoma water safe by the third grade connects to her own experience of not being water safe in third grade and seeing swimming as a life skill and a lifesaving skill. Board Director Bruce Abbot notes 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 June 26, 2026.