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SWK Chicago's Best Swim Academy offers swim lessons and swimming programs that include Mommy & Me, private swimming lessons, advanced swim clinics, and learn to swim adults. The swimming school also works with triathletes and competitive age group swimmers on advanced stroke technique and offers all levels of classes based on the latest and most effective swim techniques. Lessons are available for infants, toddlers, kids, adults, triathletes, and age group swimmers.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
Kathy Crowley Kelly leads SWK Chicago's Best Swim Academy as an experienced swim teacher, coach, and mentor with over 40 years of coaching and teaching swimming in downtown Chicago. Kathy is a fourth-generation Chicagoan who grew up in Wilmette, competed as an elite swimmer, and qualified for the Olympic trials for the Mexico City Games. The program’s mission states that SWK has a well trained and experienced team of instructors who share a passion for swimming and teaching in a great environment, offering all levels of classes based on the latest and most effective swim techniques. One parent, Susanne Braun, says, “These instructors make swim lessons a blast! They are all so kind and fun, that every kid enjoys the time in the pool!”
Last updated July 30, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
Kathy Crowley Kelly leads SWK Chicago's Best Swim Academy as an experienced swim teacher, coach, and mentor with over 40 years of coaching and teaching swimming in downtown Chicago. Kathy is a fourth-generation Chicagoan who grew up in Wilmette, competed as an elite swimmer, and qualified for the Olympic trials for the Mexico City Games. The program’s mission states that SWK has a well trained and experienced team of instructors who share a passion for swimming and teaching in a great environment, offering all levels of classes based on the latest and most effective swim techniques. One parent, Susanne Braun, says, “These instructors make swim lessons a blast! They are all so kind and fun, that every kid enjoys the time in the pool!”
Last updated July 30, 2026.
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