Meet the Owners

Alena Sarri

Managing Director

  • Alena is the co-founder of Aquatots swim school and has been teaching since 1998. She specialises in babies and toddlers. She developed an aquatic development program for infants from 6 weeks of age called Aqua Bubbas. She has presented the Aqua Bubbas.

    Alena has been with Aqautots from the beginning and previously taught at the AIS. She teaches all levels from infants through to squad level swimmers. She loves seeing the children who start in her infant classes progress throguh to squad level swimmers.


    Her qualifications include:


    SAT teacher of swimming and water safety. SAT teacher of infant and toddlers. SAT teacher of adults and adolesence. SAT competitive strokes. AUSTSWIM teacher of babies and toddlers. AUSTSWIM teacher of swimming and water safety. SAT course presenter for teacher of swimming and water safety and infant and toddlers. Cert 3 in Fitness, Aqua instructor. Cert 4 in pool and plant room operations. Cert 4 in training and assessing. Assessor for AUSTSWIM teacher of swimmign and water safety.

Daniel Sarri

Managing Director

  • Daniel has been teaching since 1998 and he teaches everything from babies to squad level swimming. He specialises in stroke development in preparation for competitive racing and challenging children.

    Daniel holds his Swim Australia qualification and the teacher of babies and toddlers. He also has his Bronze level coaching and is a combat fitness leader for the army. He is a qualified Aqua Aerobic instructor and pool and plant room operator. His passion for coaching children and getting them excited and motivated to try and do their best is second to none. Kids love his classes and training sessions and this is shown throguh the awesome number of attendance he has each week.

Debbie Sarri

Director

  • Started instructing swimming in 1975 and has continuously taught swimming since then. Supervised RLSS summer programs in 1977 and 1978. Set up and operated Belconnen Swim School at Macquarie pool up to 1986 and then at AIS till 1990.

    Debbie has been involved in the intial development of Austswim and attended the first Austswim Course in the ACT. Featured in the early Austswim advertisements with Suzie Landells. Debbie consulted on the initial development of the Austswim Teacher of Infants Qualifications.


    Debbie is a qualified swim teacher. She teaches babies, preschoolers, and competitive strokes. She also has qualifications for teaching adolescents and adults. She has a Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood and Physical Education. Also, she holds a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.


    She also had coaching experience. She helped develop the Belconnen Swim Club. She held a Bronze Coaching Licence and attended Silver Qualifications. However, she decided to focus on learn-to-swim programs.


    Debbie has years of experience as a swim teacher presenter. She has worked with both Austswim and Swim Australia. Also, she has lectured at the ASCTA Conference.


    ACT representative for Austswim Teacher of the Year in 2013 at Queenstown in New Zealand.


    Attended World Aquatic Babies Congresses and conferences since 1996. Locations include Melbourne, Mexico, France, Canada, and the USA.