Longtime Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC) water safety instructor Lisa Key was honored with the third annual T. Dianne Bellamy Small Learn to Swim Service Award at a luncheon ceremony today at the Greensboro Complex.
The T. Dianne Bellamy Small Learn to Swim Service Award is named in honor of Guilford County Board of Education member T. Dianne Bellamy Small in recognition of her longtime support, commitment and dedicated service as a volunteer instructor with the GAC’s ‘Learn to Swim’ program.
“Lisa has been with the Aquatic Center since the first day we opened and has been an instructor for the second grade Learn to Swim program since we started with teaching students from four schools in our first year,” said Susan Braman, executive director of the Learn to Swim program. “She is an outstanding instructor who is patient and kind and easily adapts to teaching all skill levels. Her experience and willingness to help others is a big reason why this program has been so successful and rewarding to everyone involved.”
In partnership with Guilford County Schools, the GAC’s curriculum-based ‘Learn to Swim’ healthy lifestyle program debuted in 2011. Forty-six Guilford County schools and 3,500 second grade students are participating in the program in the 2024-25 school year. By the end of the school year, an estimated 17,000 Guilford County Schools students will have graduated from the life-changing program since its inception.