Hi. My name is Kathy Cole and I am proud to be able to serve Fort Myers and the surrounding areas as a Certified Infant Swimming Resource Instructor.
I have been married to my husband, Steve, for 15 years and we have two amazing children, ages 14 and 9. I first learned about Infant Swimming Resource when my daughter was 2 years old while we were living in Central Florida. My son, the oldest, had taken the typical swim classes several years in a row when he was little and was still fearful of the water in his face. I did not want my daughter to develop this same fear of water and I wanted to take a different route in making her a great swimmer. I saw my friend's 2 year old swim-float-swimming at our local community pool and I was amazed! She told me about ISR and I immediately enrolled my daughter in ISR lessons.
My daughter has been an amazing swimmer ever since and absolutely loves the water!!! At 2 years of age, following her ISR lessons, she swam better than her older brother who was 7 at the time!! (Fortunately, her older brother subsequently learned his skills from watching his little sister in the pool!!! He just couldn't have his baby sister swimming better than him, and by the time he was 8, he finally mastered a swim-float-swim of his own).
When our daughter was 7 we took her on a snorkeling trip and she snorkeled in 20 ft. of water with just a mask and snorkel on...no vest and no fins....She snorkeled all over enjoying the turtles that were swimming with us and everyone on the boat was AMAZED!!! There were adults who had life vests on in the water and here was this 7-year-old, confident swimmer, swimming all over with huge turtles beneath her in 20-ft of water!!!
Ever since her first day of lessons I have been recommending ISR to everyone. Infant Swimming Resource is the safest, most comprehensive and effective survival swimming program of its kind in the United States.
Upon relocating to Fort Myers in 2006 and finding out there were no ISR Instructors nearby, I decided that I wanted to become an instructor and bring this amazing drowning prevention program to the city of Fort Myers and the surrounding areas. With all of the canals, backyard pools, and beaches in Southwest Florida an effective survival swimming program is absolutely necessary in order to keep our children safe and prevent unneccessary tragedies.
I have been teaching as a Certified ISR Instructor since June of 2007 and have taught over 200 children the ISR method since then. Infant Swimming Resource is an extremely effective drowning prevention program and I am proud to be part of a team of individuals whose mission it is to keep babies and children safe in and around the water by teaching them to be aquatic problem-solvers. Our children are so precious to us and it is our job as parents to be diligent in keeping them safe. I look forward to working with each of your little ones and teaching them a love for the water as well as very necessary swimming and survival skills!
