Your Olympic dreams begin here.
Brownell Talbot Aquatics, Omaha, Nebraska. #WorkingOurWayToTheTop: developing a hard work culture.
2025 Midwestern Swimming 12 & Under Age Group Champions
2025
Midwestern Swimming 12 & Under champions
150+
Years of Brownell Talbot School
6
Lanes in the Theisen Pool
80-82°
Pool temperature
Who is Brownell Talbot?
Welcome to the home of the Brownell Talbot Raiders! Our BT Aquatics programs are open to the public, so come and dive in. Explore more by using the tabs provided. We look forward to welcoming you to the pool soon!
Discover Brownell Talbot College Preparatory School, where excellence in swimming meets world-class education. Brownell Talbot School is Nebraska's only private, independent, coeducational, college preparatory institution. With a legacy of over 150 years of academic excellence, Brownell Talbot caters to students from preschool through grade 12, offering a comprehensive and enriching learning experience. To learn more, visit our website at brownell.edu.
Our mission
Brownell Talbot Swimming provides opportunity and encouragement for all its athletes to achieve excellence in life through a positive competitive swimming experience. We believe that our sport teaches fundamental life skills that are invaluable beyond the pool. By teaching, and instructing our athletes, we aim to develop in them the self-discipline, personal responsibility, physical fitness, and personal excellence necessary for success in competitive swimming and beyond. Brownell Talbot Swimming is committed to providing a safe, healthy, and positive environment for athletes as they seek to achieve their goals in our sport.
Our vision
As NEBRASKA's premier aquatics program, Brownell Talbot Swimming provides an exceptional swim team experience through professional leadership. Our coaches’ progressive, development and competitive age-group training creates a supportive team environment that emphasizes personal achievement at each swimmer’s highest level of ability.
Five ways into the water
BT Aquatics (USAS Team)
Year-round USA Swimming for K-4th through high school: Bronze, Gold Age Group, Senior Gold and Silver.
BT Masters Swim Team
Year-round adult swimming for every ability, from 5:00 am practices to lunchtime lanes.
BT Swim School
Private lessons for ages 3 and up, stroke lessons with a coach, and dive lessons, with FLSwimming.
Raider Nation, in their words
“My wife and I have been very impressed by the BT Swim coaches ability to instill great work habits with our son, now he gets up at 4:30am twice a week.”
The Holms
“A determination for excellence is just one of the traits I see developing as our daughter works with the BT Swim coaches.”
The Andersons
“Swimming is a sport where we can focus our positive energy. It's inspiring to watch our daughter excel as our team and family grows in the water.”
The Benjamin Wendling Family
“BT Swim has helped our three kids in every way. What started as swim lessons for survival at 3 months old has now turned into something truly amazing! This team keeps our kids in the perfect lane with diet, exercise, and determination. WE LOVE BT SWIM!”
The Levells
“BT Swim has changed our lives! There is nothing like seeing your child develop skills you can only imagine as a parent.”
The Reeds
“BT is so much more than a swim club... it's a family! Our daughter's coaches and teammates have instilled in her a sense of confidence that she is capable of so much more than she ever believed possible and they support her goals both in the pool and beyond!”
The Beninatos
“BT Swimming is more than a team: it's a family. The skills these kids are learning now far transcend the pool. They're skills for life!”
The Bradfords
On deck
How to join the team
Check the basics
Swim 25 yards of freestyle and 25 yards of backstroke unassisted, and float on your back for 20 to 30 seconds.
Book a tryout
New swimmers schedule a group testing session with Associate Head Coach Jeff Nelson.
Register
Sign up for your group online. Returning Raiders can register right away.
Race for the Raiders
Compete at every home meet once your coach says you are ready, then at the highest championship you qualify for.
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Contact us
Reach out :) We want to hear from you. Whether you have a question about registration, our philosophy, or want to see if swimming is a good sport for your child, we are happy to chat!