When it comes to your child, you always look for the most qualified, caring instructors. Infant Swimming Resource is no different. Beyond sharing a devotion to child safety, each instructor is highly trained and certified to teach Infant Swimming Resource's (ISR) self-rescue method.

  • Each instructor completes a 6-week intensive training and certification program, which includes a minimum of 60 hours of supervised in-water training.
  • The training also includes education and testing in subjects such as child psychology, physiology and behavioral science.
  • Once an instructor is certified, they must undergo annual reviews and re-certification to ensure skills and techniques continue to meet the highest ISR standards.
Each ISR instructor is carefully screened through extensive interviews before qualifying to earn certification.

  • ISR student instructors study with a Certified Master Instructor, who
    develops a unique training program that targets each
    student instructor's learning and teaching styles.
  • While each student instructor may develop a unique teaching style,
    every certified instructor must meet the same high standards for
    professionalism, safety, and knowledge.
  • You can be confident that your child will be carefully monitored and lovingly instructed at each lesson.


Chad Pierce, ISR Certified Instructor

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I first became aware of Infant Swimming Resource when I was a younger living in Mesa, Arizona.  ISR is well known in the Arizona, mostly because of the large number of swimming pools in the area.  Although I knew about it then, I didn't really think about it much until I had a child of my own.  With my son being six months old at the time, and with his grandparents having a pond in their backyard, I wanted my son to learn how to survive if he were to fall into the water.  After doing some research online, I discovered that there were no instructors in our area.  And it would be near impossible for my son, or any other children in our community, to learn these lifesaving skills. That is when I decided to become an instructor.  I love teaching young children self-rescue skills in an effort to prevent, "one more drowning."

Currently, we have two instructors in West Michigan,
Michael Petrella and myself.





Chad Pierce

ISR Certified Instructor
c.pierce@infantswim.com
616.914.7527
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