MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
What We're All about
Thank you for taking a moment to get to know your instructors. ISR is a swim program dedicated to reaching as many families as possible with life-saving aquatic skills. ISR Utah Aquatics, also known as Swim Safe Utah, has been serving families with drowning prevention self-rescue and recreational swim instruction since 2016.
While drowning prevention is the heartbeat of why we do what we do, we are passionate about your child’s well-being as a whole. ISR provides a thorough registration process that gives each instructor the tools to provide your child with the best lessons possible, giving us the capability to work with children on varying spectrums from SPD, autism, down syndrome, and more. For more about instructor training requirements, click here.
Thank you for taking a moment to get to know your instructors. ISR is a swim program dedicated to reaching as many families as possible with life-saving aquatic skills. ISR Utah Aquatics, also known as Swim Safe Utah, has been serving families with drowning prevention self-rescue and recreational swim instruction since 2016.
While drowning prevention is the heartbeat of why we do what we do, we are passionate about your child’s well-being as a whole. ISR provides a thorough registration process that gives each instructor the tools to provide your child with the best lessons possible, giving us the capability to work with children on varying spectrums from SPD, autism, down syndrome, and more. For more about instructor training requirements, click here.
Mrs. Cheri
Owner of Swim Safe Utah
8th Year as a Certified ISR Instructor
Firstly, thank you for visiting our site and pursuing water safety lessons for your child! These are invaluable skills your child will carry with them for a lifetime.
I am a Kentucky native (bluegrass state), and recently moved to Utah in 2021 with my husband. Prior to this transition, I taught ISR for almost 6 years in the bluegrass. I am grateful to continue owning and operating ISR Kentucky Aquatics, as well as beginning to expand our reach into Utah with these life saving skills!
Before joining ISR, I had a background as a competitive swimmer before transitioning into teaching traditional swim instruction. I have had the pleasure of working with students of all ages and skill levels — my youngest student being 6 months and my oldest being 82. My background, swimming competitively and teaching traditional lessons for 7 years, gave me a foundation in aquatics that has proved invaluable to my growth as an ISR instructor.
After years in traditional aquatics, I couldn’t ignore the reality that drowning affects so many families nationwide. I knew if I was going to continue to give children the love of water, I had the responsibility to teach them also to survive the water. I became a Certified Infant Swim Instructor with a passion to make a lasting difference for the children in my community, by giving them the potentially life-saving skills, and competence and confidence to be aquatic problem solvers. I consider it pure joy and an incredible blessing to give these children the gift of a lifetime.
It is a pleasure to meet each new family, educate others about the program and watch students develop the confidence in themselves as swimmers.
– CPR & AED Certified
– IBCCES Autism Spectrum Certified
We consider it pure joy and an incredible blessing to give these children the gift of a lifetime. We love meeting new people, educating others about the program and watching students develop the confidence in themselves as swimmers. We look forward to teaching your child and working together to assure that “not one more child drowns!”
Blessings,
Cheri Slay