Erin Loewe, Certified ISR Instructor

I have been passionate about drowning prevention my whole life. My mother became an ISR instructor in Orlando in the late 1980s after having my younger brother learn with a local instructor there. For many years thereafter, I was very familiar with the sights and sounds of babies and young children mastering their rollbacks, floats, and swim-float-swims in my own back yard. I did not have aspirations as a child to become an instructor, but I knew one thing: when I had children of my own, they would learn to swim through Infant Swimming Resource!

Although I was not taught to swim through the ISR method, I have been swimming since before I can remember. I spent many years on swim teams, playing in neighborhood pools and water skiing. I strongly believe that the enjoyment and health benefits I received from aquatics were possible because I learned to swim so young.

After my first child was born, I searched Tallahassee for an ISR instructor but could not find one. When he was 2 years old, he went through the ISR program and from then on was a fish in the water. I was so fascinated with ISR's methods and was looking for a career that would allow me to spend more time with my family. One thing led to another, and I trained under a master instructor in Jacksonville so that I could begin to help children myself.

I live in Tallahassee with my husband, Karl, and our two children, Quinn, 8, and Ava, 4 (who are both ISR swim-float-swimmers!). I have a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, which helps me pursue my off-season career, freelance writing.

Since becoming an instructor with Infant Swimming Resource, I have thoroughly enjoyed helping babies and children become aquatic problem solvers and educating parents on how to keep their children safe around the water. I look forward to working with other ISR instructors and our community to ensure that not one more child drowns.