AQUATIC ACHIEVERS EVOLUTION

Neil Douglas Aquatic Achievers was established in 1967 when Neil Douglas began teaching Children to swim in Rockhampton, Queensland. Neil has spent most of life observing, learning, testing and implementing learn to swim techniques to help children learn the joys of water. Although having coached elite swimmers in the past, Neil has often identified his passion is in teaching all kids, not just the athletically gifted or 'natural swimmers'. "Still the most rewarding students are those everyone else thought would never swim." Neil often echoes the sentiment "Of course they can, you just need to find what works for them."

Program development

It was in the mid to early 1990's while managing a 'learn to swim' school in Logan City, that Neil began to put in place the structure for the current Solo-1 program. At the time only a handful of people around the world were teaching children under the age of three in a structured program, while swim schools would be virtually unrecognisable compared to what we see today. Neil began travelling in search of the world’s best techniques. The best was combined from Japan, America, Europe and South-East Asia to produce the comprehensive babies and infants program.

Chandler

The Sleeman sports complex is the home of swimming in Queensland. It is here that the Aquatic Achievers name began to build its reputation as the premier swim school in Brisbane. Word soon spread that children were swimming further, at a younger age than anywhere else. The babies / infants, program began to stand out with 2 year-olds swimming without parents and actually swimming better and developing their swimming and cognitive skills faster than if mum and dad were in the pool. It is Neil’s insistence that children must be challenged or they will become bored that motivated teachers and parents to find out what young children are actually capable of. The swimming industry now takes for granted the groundwork that was laid in these years.

Today – Aspley, Sunnybank, Gumdale and North Lakes

Due to Neil's passion to offer only the best swimming lessons and service, he has been able to attract an amazing team of staff to Aquatic Achievers. Managers, Instructors and Receptionists all contribute to help our program and systems evolve. As our swim school has expanded, we have also ensured that our levels of service and class delivery have improved, so that Aquatic Achievers remains a place "Where kids love to Swim".

Today, Aquatic Achievers has grown to operate four swim schools across Brisbane. Centres are located at Chandler, Sunnybank Hills, Aspley, Gumdale and our newest centre at North Lakes opened in early 2010.

Australia is recognised as world leaders in infants and babies aquatics


Memberships - Neil Douglas
ASCTA (Australian Swim coaches & Teachers Association)
USSSA (United States Swim Schools Association)
International Ambassador to USSSA
ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand and United States Swim Schools Association)
Each Aquatic Achievers Centre in Brisbane is a member of Swim Australia

You can now learn more about how Aquatic Achievers does it by visiting www.uswim.com our online program designed to help parents that can not get quality lessons or simply want to supplement traditional lessons.