History

Aqua-Tots was founded in Scottsdale Arizona by Ron and Jane Sciarro in April 1991.  Neither of them had any teaching experience or had a competitive swim background.  However, they had one thing in common – they had a passion for children and loved the concept of running a small family owned business. 

Since it’s inception in 1991, this initial home based business exploded with success.  Initially, they worked from their home office for the first eight years as a seasonal swim school operation (March through October).  Over the next few years, the founders realized there were several places to take swim lessons in the valley; however, after extensive investigation into the swim industry that there were very few quality swim programs or options for parents to enroll their children into.  As a result, Aqua-Tots started to design and develop a state-of-the-art training curriculum that focuses on meeting two specific needs- the child and the parent.   Soon after the release of our first training program, Aqua-Tots exploded again with eight satellite pool locations throughout the Phoenix Metropolitan area.

After years of requests to build an indoor swim school facility to continue their children in the Aqua-Tots Swim Program throughout the year, the founders began the process of designing a year-round swim school facility. 

In April 2005, the founders of Aqua-Tots partnered with another family, Paul and Heather Preston to create the beginning stages of the franchise model and formed “Aqua-Tots Swim Schools” an Arizona Limited Liability Company.

In July 2005, Aqua-Tots designed and developed a state-of-the-art year-round indoor swim schools facility to service the east valley residents of Metropolitan Phoenix.  After years of mastering how to sell, teach and retain a solid employees and a large client base, Aqua-Tots Swim School had completed its final stages of developing its franchise business model to be replicated throughout the United States. 

In July 2006, one year later, Aqua-Tots Swim Schools has hit record sales and is currently preparing to build two more stand alone swim school locations.  Because of Aqua-Tot’s attention to details, strategic planning and the focus on being the best swim school, our franchisees will revolutionize the swim school industry and will continue to set the pace in the market of swim schools.