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Assistant swim coach resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an assistant swim coach resume

Craft a resume summary statement

A resume summary is your opening statement that highlights your strongest skills and top accomplishments. It is your chance to quickly let recruiters know who you are professionally - and why they should hire you for the assistant swim coach role.

Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.

Step 2: Detail your years of experience in assistant swim coach-related roles and your industry experience.

Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.

Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the assistant swim coach position.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some assistant swim coach interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an assistant swim coach resume:

  • CPR
  • Lifeguard
  • NCAA
  • Water Safety
  • Head Swim
  • Assist Head
  • Training Programs
  • III
  • Role Model
  • Line UPS
  • Administrative Tasks
  • Social Events
  • Swimming Coaching
  • Travel Arrangements
  • Head Coaches
  • Athletic Performance
  • Private Lessons
  • Emergency Situations
  • Leadership
  • Constructive Feedback
  • Competitive Events
  • Strength Training
  • Hy-Tek
  • Practice Schedules
  • Training Direction
  • Olympics
  • Stroke Development

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write assistant swim coach experience bullet points

Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

Here are great bullet points from assistant swim coach resumes:

Work history example #1

Assistant Swim Coach

YMCA

  • Red Cross certified lifeguard, including CPR, blood borne pathogen safety and oxygen certified.
  • Developed positive relationships with parents and students CPR certified
  • Certified Life Guard, Swim Instructor, Coach Basic Life Support, CPR.
  • Improved the performance of a team of over 120 children, leading team to 3 division championship victories.
  • Coached 5 Divers, taking two to compete in their first appearance at the WI State Championship Diving Meet.

Work history example #2

Assistant Swim Coach

Miller's Ale House

  • Recruited the student-athletes by following NCAA academic guidelines.-Assisted in monitoring academic progress of student-athletes-Moderated team study halls.
  • Advanced to Head Lifeguard position in summer 2007: Responsible for managing the guards and customer serviced for the club members.
  • Worked as assistant swim coach to the regional Lifetime swim team, also part-time lifeguard
  • Worked as a lifeguard certified in CPR, First Aid and Lifesaving.
  • Provided lifeguard support during practice and swim meets.

Work history example #3

Student Volunteer (Part-Time)

Women's Center of Beaver County

  • Secured Friend of Habitat donation from City of Hewitt.
  • Experienced and can effectively demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) procedure.
  • Upgraded and installed new servers using Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system.
  • Helped maintain equipment room and inventory by converting information to a database.
  • Assisted technology specialists in providing technological assistance to patrons, including information on using Windows operating system-based software and browsers.

Work history example #4

Lifeguard/Swim Instructor

Florida State University

  • Volunteered to help coach the Special Olympics for individuals with cognitive delay and other disorders every Sunday for 3 hours.
  • Trained and certified in CPR and emergency preparedness through the American Red Cross Association
  • Completed certified training including AED and CPR.
  • Coordinated safety instructions for other lifeguards, supervised lifeguards during hours of operation, per- formed maintenance on pool
  • Stabilized and rebuilt an NCAA Division III program that had gone through 7 head coaches in 7 years.

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Add an education section to your resume

The education section should display your highest degree first.

Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.

If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in management

Webster University, Saint Louis, MO

2014 - 2017

Bachelor's Degree in psychology

Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

2009 - 2012

Highlight your assistant swim coach certifications on your resume

Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.

Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your assistant swim coach resume:

  1. First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
  2. Lifeguard Certification
  3. Certified Personal Trainer
  4. Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
  5. Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)

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