Friends of Grant Park Pool

The Atlanta Swim School is an organization, founded by Sabir Muhammad, 10 time American Swimming Record Holder and NCAA Champion at Stanford University. Muhammad believes that swimming is not just a sport, but a vital life saving skill. This led to the creation of his learn-to-swim initiative­the Atlanta Swim School. The Atlanta Swim School offers lessons for students of all ages, from infancy to adulthood, and believes that anyone, at any age or economic background, can benefit from swimming. Summer swim lessons (infant – middle school) and summer swim league (elementary through middle school) will be offered at the Grant Park Pool this summer. The Atlanta Swim School has launched the Four Plus One movement, offering one free scholarship for every four paying swimmers. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please download and complete an application.

A formal swim lesson schedule should be available soon, pending final arrangements that must be made with the City of Atlanta.

The Grant Park Pool will open for the 2012 season on May 28.

The Friends of Grant Park Pool wish to thank the following restaurants for sponsoring dine-outs this year:

Six Feet Under
Grant Central Pizza
Doc Chey’s
Dakota Blue
The Republic Social House

A dine-out consists of a restaurant donating a percentage of a day’s sales to the Friends of Grant Park Pool. Dine-out proceeds fund improvements to the pool, such as additional deck chairs. The 50 chairs that you see at the pool have all been funded by dine-outs in recent years.

Our web site has a new interactive survey feature:

http://www.grantparkpool.org/?page_id=11

Please take a moment to share your thoughts about the pool this past summer. We’ll compile the results and provide a copy to the City of Atlanta Parks Commissioner as well as the Aquatics Department.

Visit www.atlantaswimschool.com to register for year-round swimming lessons.

Visit www.facebook.com/grantparkpool and click Like to keep up with the latest pool news, or follow us on Twitter.

We’ve updated our website to use the WordPress platform so that we can serve you better. If you’re looking for information that you can’t find, please send email to melissa@grantparkparkpool.org.