Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave’s On the Ground Kalamazoo series.
Kalamazoo, MI – As this year’s drowning deaths in Michigan’s Great Lakes reach 45 and counting, Kalamazoo’s Masters Swim Club (ZOOM) is making waves with a simple solution: teach more adults how to swim.
“There are a lot of people who don’t know how to swim,” says Lead Instructor Allison McKenna, who is a driving force in the ZOOM Adult-Learn-to-Swim (ALTS) program. “We try to give people one-on-one instruction in that space as much as possible so people can take in the information at their pace, to let their body learn how to move in the water.”…