Texoma Swim Academy

10/17/2026

Swim season 2026 was a RECORD breaker! 🏅
With 217 swimmers! 🏊‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️
Great staff! 👏Amazing families and swim students! 😎
We officially closed the pool last week. We wrapped up this season with pumpkin fun and a few more goals that were met by students! 🎃💦

Some of you ask what I do when the season ends?
GREAT question. I write and apply for grants. I submit grant reports, prepare to speak at the 2027 Association of Aquatic Professionals conference in February, learn how to improve for next year, and I REST, in the mountains.

We have already received comitment for grant funding for 2027 from one of our grants and I am working on additional funding sources, because keeping water safety affordable and accessible is important.

Stay tuned for our Behind the Scenes annual review and updates for 2027!

08/12/2026

When I’m not in the pool, I’m talking about why we do what we do in the pool. 🎙️

Episode 8 of Discussions from the Deep End: A Podcast For Aquatic Professionals By Aquatic Professionals is officially out today, and we're talking with Christy Baca of Texoma Swim Academy about what it really takes to support swimmers with unique learning needs — and how instructors can build trust, confidence, and meaningful progress in the water.

Christy is a 2026 AOAP Power Speaker, aquatics educator, and Texas A&M graduate whose background in special education shapes every part of her approach to swim instruction. Christy shares how she uses TBRI (Trust‑Based Relational Intervention) to create connection‑driven, empowering lessons for swimmers experiencing anxiety, ADHD, sensory processing differences, trauma, and other challenges.

The episode wraps with a lightning round full of quick, actionable insights for instructors who want to better support nervous swimmers, strengthen lesson structure, and rethink misconceptions about adaptive instruction.
If you’re an aquatic professional looking to build safer, stronger, more responsive programs, this conversation delivers practical tools, thoughtful perspective, and a whole lot of heart.

Listen today:
Apple Podcasts https://na2.hubs.ly/H077mvl0
Spotify https://na2.hubs.ly/H077mN10
YouTube https://na2.hubs.ly/H077mN20

07/18/2026

Trust and Connect ✨
Turning water activities into play—like a student freely pouring water over their own head—or their instructors head 💦Transforms intimidating moments into milestones. This playful autonomy helps kids discover that they can manage and control the water, building self-reliance that can progress into water competency. 🏊🏻‍♂️

07/16/2026

07/08/2026

Hip-Hip HOORAY it’s swim squad Wednesday! ✨
Fun drills, skill development, endurance work, & WATER BURPEES! 💦
Strong swimmers start here! 🏊‍♀️

07/02/2026

Kicks and one arm stroke - representing America!

06/30/2026

In an environment of trust & safety we can overcome fear.

06/27/2026

Lifejackets at swim lessons? 🤷‍♀️
It’s a thing! ✨
It’s a great thing. 💙
We use them to help some of our students with sensory overload, ASD or other things feel the properties of the water while working on motor planning and other skills that lead to progression out of the lifejacket. 💦