About
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics offers learn to swim programs, a competitive swim team, and a progressive learn-to-swim program for youth. The program also runs clinics for high school and summer league swimmers, high school prep and varsity team practice and meets for non-year-round swimmers, and adult fitness lap swimming through NOVAFit. Adults can also join an adult competitive swimming team (Masters), and participate in fitness lap swimming seven days per week through NOVAFit.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization and began as a small non-profit organization to address the need for a structured, year-round swimming program. Geoff Brown founded the club and served as Head Coach through 2020. Over time, the organization added facilities including the NOVA Aquatics Center-Gayton Road in 1996, a second pool at the Gayton location in 2005, and a second location, the Regency Aquatic Center, in 2021.
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 so that all individuals can participate and benefit from NOVA’s programs. NOVA strives to develop excellence in swimmers of all ages and abilities by challenging and motivating them to reach their full potential in swimming and in life.
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics is described as a leader in promoting water safety, healthy lifestyles, and the lifelong sport of swimming. Its competitive youth swim team includes about 800 swimmers and is rated the #1 club by Virginia Swimming, and NOVA consistently ranks as a Top-Ten organization by USA Swimming. NOVA swimmers have competed at numerous Olympic Trials, and NOVA swimmers have represented the United States in Junior National and world swimming events. In 2016 Townley Haas won an Olympic Gold Medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay, and in 2019 Charlie Swanson won the Gold Medal in the 400-meter individual medley for the U.S. at the Pan American Games.
NOVA partners with Henrico County Public Schools to teach 1,600 second graders annually and has over 2,300 swimmers in outreach programming. NOVA provides swim instruction to 1,600 Henrico County second grade students annually through the county’s Learn2Swim program. 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, and NOVA has partnered with Henrico Fire and Rescue teams.
Last updated July 25, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization and began as a small non-profit organization to address the need for a structured, year-round swimming program. Geoff Brown founded the club and served as Head Coach through 2020. Over time, the organization added facilities including the NOVA Aquatics Center-Gayton Road in 1996, a second pool at the Gayton location in 2005, and a second location, the Regency Aquatic Center, in 2021.
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 so that all individuals can participate and benefit from NOVA’s programs. NOVA strives to develop excellence in swimmers of all ages and abilities by challenging and motivating them to reach their full potential in swimming and in life.
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics is described as a leader in promoting water safety, healthy lifestyles, and the lifelong sport of swimming. Its competitive youth swim team includes about 800 swimmers and is rated the #1 club by Virginia Swimming, and NOVA consistently ranks as a Top-Ten organization by USA Swimming. NOVA swimmers have competed at numerous Olympic Trials, and NOVA swimmers have represented the United States in Junior National and world swimming events. In 2016 Townley Haas won an Olympic Gold Medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay, and in 2019 Charlie Swanson won the Gold Medal in the 400-meter individual medley for the U.S. at the Pan American Games.
NOVA partners with Henrico County Public Schools to teach 1,600 second graders annually and has over 2,300 swimmers in outreach programming. NOVA provides swim instruction to 1,600 Henrico County second grade students annually through the county’s Learn2Swim program. 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, and NOVA has partnered with Henrico Fire and Rescue teams.
Last updated July 25, 2026.
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