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NOVA of Virginia Aquatics offers progressive learn-to-swim programs for youth, a competitive swim team, and year-round learn to swim programs that serve individuals from age 3 to adults. The program also offers clinics for high school swimmers and summer league swimmers, high school prep, varsity team practices and meets, and adult fitness lap swimming through NOVAFit. Adults can also join an adult competitive swimming team through the Masters program.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization to address the need for a structured, year-round swimming program and has since evolved into a national powerhouse. Geoff Brown founded the club and served as Head Coach through 2020. NOVA’s mission is to ensure access to everyone in the community, regardless of socioeconomic, mental, or physical challenges, and it prioritizes safety, inclusion, and excellence while striving to develop excellence in swimmers of all ages and abilities. The competitive youth swim team includes about 800 swimmers ages 5 or 6 to 18, is rated the #1 club by Virginia Swimming, and consistently ranks as a Top-Ten organization by USA Swimming, with swimmers who have won state and national titles and competed at numerous Olympic Trials. NOVA swimmers include Townley Haas, who won an Olympic Gold Medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay in 2016, and Charlie Swanson, who won Gold in the 400-meter individual medley for the U.S. at the 2019 Pan American Games.
Each year, more than 1,500 children in the community participate in NOVA swim lessons, and tens of thousands of children, including those who are underserved or with special needs, have taken lessons there over the years. NOVA partners with Henrico County Public Schools to provide swim instruction to 1,600 second grade students annually through the Learn2Swim program and has over 2,300 swimmers in outreach programming. Community partners include the Central VA Autism Society, Sportable Adaptive Sports, the Special Olympics, the Henrico Police Athletic League, Steward School’s Leap Program, Reel Em In, Swim Across America, and Henrico Fire and Rescue.
Last updated February 9, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization to address the need for a structured, year-round swimming program and has since evolved into a national powerhouse. Geoff Brown founded the club and served as Head Coach through 2020. NOVA’s mission is to ensure access to everyone in the community, regardless of socioeconomic, mental, or physical challenges, and it prioritizes safety, inclusion, and excellence while striving to develop excellence in swimmers of all ages and abilities. The competitive youth swim team includes about 800 swimmers ages 5 or 6 to 18, is rated the #1 club by Virginia Swimming, and consistently ranks as a Top-Ten organization by USA Swimming, with swimmers who have won state and national titles and competed at numerous Olympic Trials. NOVA swimmers include Townley Haas, who won an Olympic Gold Medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay in 2016, and Charlie Swanson, who won Gold in the 400-meter individual medley for the U.S. at the 2019 Pan American Games.
Each year, more than 1,500 children in the community participate in NOVA swim lessons, and tens of thousands of children, including those who are underserved or with special needs, have taken lessons there over the years. NOVA partners with Henrico County Public Schools to provide swim instruction to 1,600 second grade students annually through the Learn2Swim program and has over 2,300 swimmers in outreach programming. Community partners include the Central VA Autism Society, Sportable Adaptive Sports, the Special Olympics, the Henrico Police Athletic League, Steward School’s Leap Program, Reel Em In, Swim Across America, and Henrico Fire and Rescue.
Last updated February 9, 2026.
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