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SEASTARS Aquatics offers swim lessons year-round! It is our promise to provide fun and fear free lessons to anyone who needs them.
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Gracie, our head coach/lesson instructor and Executive Director of SEASTARS, is offering lessons 2:00 through 4:00 Mondays through Thursdays.
  Gracie’s available time slots are:
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Mondays – Full
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Tuesdays – 2:00 and 3:00
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Wednesdays – 2:00
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Thursdays – 3:30
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The available times posted can change quickly and daily. I will do my best to keep them updated on time each day.
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Although we are a Year-Round swim program, we do have blocks of time and holiday closings that coincide with the Escambia County School District’s schedule.
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Upcoming closing dates are:
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May 25 – Memorial Day
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To schedule swim lessons, contact Debbie Taylor at the email address and Contact Form located below. All of our swim team coaches and swim lesson instructors have experience teaching and working with young children, special needs individuals, and are lifeguard and CPR certified. Please look below to find the prices for both types of lessons.Â
Instruction levels:
- Water Adjustment Children learn how to have fun, play with others in the pool, and work with an instructor.
- Primary Skills Learn to float horizontal, breath, and basic front crawl and backstroke.
- Stroke Development Refining front crawl, backstroke, and learning breaststroke and butterfly.
- Stroke Refinement Achieving maximum propulsion in desired stroke(s) utilizing videotaping and feedback sessions.
Swim Lesson Pricing
Private Lessons |
$125 for 4 Lessons |
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Semi-Private Lessons (you provide the two swimmers) |
$125.00 for 4 Lessons                                           (two swimmers sharing the lessons with one instructor)          (you provide the two swimmers sharing the lessons) |
Our swim lessons are scheduled and priced by the Session. Each Session of lessons includes four half-hour lessons, and each full Session of lessons is $125.00. These lessons are done at the Salvation Army Pool located on ​1501 N. Q. Street​.
The prices are the same for both Private lessons (one swimmer per instructor) and Semi-Private lessons (two swimmers per instructor). You are paying for the time in the water, not per swimmer. We don’t offer group instruction. Payment for each Session of four lessons is due the FIRST day of lessons and can be paid by cash or a check made out to SEASTARS. We don’t accept credit cards.
We understand that there may be a need for you to cancel a lesson at some time. We just ask that you give us at least two hours notice before the lesson is to begin. If a cancellation is made after the two-hour deadline, we will not be able to reschedule the missed lesson and will have to charge for that day’s lesson. Most cancellations or reschedules should go through Debbie but if you have to cancel a lesson the day a lesson is to begin you should contact your swim instructor first before contacting Debbie. You may not be able to get Debbie right away and the instructor will need to know not to expect you.
Semi-private lessons are set up for those coming to us with two students already. For example, siblings, cousins, or friends that would like to share the Session together. We​ don’t have students waiting to be paired up with another for these lessons.
Students sharing Semi-Private lessons should be close in age and swim level. We ask that a parent or responsible adult family member assist in the pool during the Semi-Private lessons when they involve students under the age of 3 yrs old.
Private Lessons are the best and recommended fit for our special needs students. Therefore, we do not pair our special needs students in Semi-Private lessons.
We schedule lessons Mondays through Thursdays, and we leave Fridays open for any makeup lessons we may need to do because of bad weather or pool issues that may arise. Friday makeup lessons are only for lessons we had to cancel. Client cancellations can be made up on an available day that same week or renumbered to the next available schedule day that matches your typical scheduled days and times. Makeup lesson times vary from 11:00 am – 4:30 pm each day depending on remaining availability.
We do not offer evening or weekend lessons since our instructors also coach our swim team from 5:00-7:00 pm each evening and swim meets many of the weekends.
Most of our clients like to spread the Session of four lessons over a two-week period doing two lessons per week. We also have clients that do only one lesson per week. Many of our clients like to keep the lessons running indefinitely until they tell Debbie to take them off the schedule. This is done to ensure the client will have their times and days still available if they decide to keep going after the first Session of lessons. There is no obligation to pay for these future Sessions ahead of time. Payment is only needed on the first day of each new Session of four lessons. It is simply done to hold the days and times for you so future weeks don’t get booked by another client, thus leaving you forced to choose another time or day, or, both time and day. However you choose to schedule is fine with us.
Once lessons are scheduled, all the swimmers will need during the lessons are a bathing suit and a towel. The instructor will have everything else needed for the lessons, and that includes lots of fun toys!
 MEET OUR SWIM LESSONS STAFF
There is one full time staff and two other part time employees for SEASTARS Aquatics in 2025. All lesson instructors and coaches are certified through USA Swimming and have passed a background check, and are certified in CPR, First aid, Lifeguarding, and Safety Training for Swim Coaches. They have all completed The Foundations of Coaching level 1 test through ASCA ( The American Swim Coaches Association).
 Debbie Taylor – Lesson Coordinator/Data Specialist
I first became part of SEASTARS as a Swim Mom in the summer of 2007. My son Clay Taylor joined SEASTARS barely being able to swim across the pool. In his 9 years being part of the team, he went on to become an excellent swimmer and earned many achievements along the way including going to the Southeastern’s Swimming Championships in Tennessee and then later making it to the State Championships with his high school. Clay could never have done this had he not joined SEASTARS.
 In 2010, I became a SEASTARS employee as the Swim Lesson Coordinator for SEASTARS. This involves taking all swim lessons inquiries, scheduling all new and continuing lessons, and coordinating the lessons among the Coaches. In addition, I compile client lists, schedules, cancellations, and reschedule lessons and provide appropriate information to SEASTARS Staff on a weekly basis (or a need for changes/cancellations). By January 28, 2013, I took on additional responsibilities as the Swim Team Support Coordinator which involves compiling data related to the Swim Team to include Staff hours, Volunteer hours, Community Service hours, Incentive Program Points, In-kind Goods Usage Tracking, Swimmer/Parent Survey and Report Card data. Beginning April of 2024, Bookkeeping and Payroll were added to my job description as well. Working for SEASTARS over for the past 16 years has been an honor, a passion, and a privilege.Â
I am also a Substitute Teacher for the Escambia County School District, and I do all of my substitute teaching at NB Cook Elementary and work almost every day. Because of this, I answer most of my calls, texts, or emails in the later afternoon and evening hours.
Email is the optimum way to communicate with me and receive swim lesson information. Initially, there is a lot of information shared between the client and me, and it is best to keep all this information in one email thread.
My email address is purplehaze33310@gmail.com. Or, use the Contact Form to the right.
Information to include in the form:
Name and Age of Swim Student, Special Needs or Neurotypical, Details of Special Need, and Days and Times best for you or Flexible.
Swim Lesson Information     Cancellation Policy
              Scholarship Swim Lessons
Gracie Miller
Assistant Director/Head Coach/Lesson Instructor
(Ages 1yr and up)
Salvation Army Pool
We use the Salvation Army Community Center Aquatics center for all programs. The facility is located at 1501 North Q Street Pensacola Fl 32505. In the Summer SEASTARS advanced swimmers provide free swimming lessons to Salvation Army Campers to help “give back†to The Salvation Army for their kindness in letting us use their facility.