About
Elitesgen Academy started on the side of a pool with a clipboard and a full register. Today we run swimming, dance and music programs across Lagos and Abuja for over two thousand learners a term, from children to adults, and the coaches who opened the first class are still coaching.
By the numbers
Updated every term. These are real classes, real coaches, and real students showing up every week.
Running our own swim program since 2022.
Active students across swim, dance and music this term.
Instructors and coordinators on the ground.
Live across Lagos and Abuja, with more on the way every quarter.
What we do
Classes here do not run on vibes. Every program is built on a written curriculum, runs on a fixed schedule, and ends in an honest assessment your family can actually read.
In the pool or studio
01Swimming at partner pools, dance and music at our studios across Lagos and Abuja. Small-group sessions, written level progressions, and coaches who have been with us for years rather than a term. Makeup classes when traffic wins, not when nothing can be done about it.
How a term flows
02Why we exist
Elitesgen Academy started on the ground, running swim programs with a handful of coaches and a notebook full of schedules. The idea then was simple, and it still is now: a Lagos child learning to swim, to dance, or to play should get coaching as considered as any child anywhere else.
That meant structure. A curriculum written down, not held in someone's head. Levels a parent could understand. Coaches trained the same way year after year, not picked up at the last minute. Progress shared with families while the term was still running, not only when something went wrong.
The same coaches and coordinators who opened the first swim program are still coaching and coordinating. We have grown into dance and music, into more facilities across Lagos, and into families whose older children are now back as coaches. But what a week at Elitesgen looks like on a Tuesday evening is exactly what a week has always looked like: a class starts on time, a coach knows every student by name, and a parent goes home with something to show for it.
If it does not help the people in the pool or the studio, we do not do it. That rule has not changed since 2022.
What we stand for
Posted on the wall of the office. Argued about at lunch. Referred back to whenever we are making something harder for ourselves than it needs to be.
Every program is built on a structured curriculum with clear progression, honest assessments and outcomes parents can see. Feelings are not data. Data is data.
We teach where our learners live. Coaches, parents and students build the culture together, session by session, not from a slide deck in a different time zone.
We pick tools, workflows and teaching methods because they work on the deck and in the studio, not because they photograph well for a pitch.
From a child's first lesson to a coach's tenth year, the systems we build are meant to grow with the people using them. No rewrites every two terms.
The team
Full team profiles, headshots and the stories of how we all ended up here are on the way. In the meantime, if you want to meet any of us in person, the easiest thing is to stop by a session.
Role
Head coach
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Operations
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Engineering
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Curriculum
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Come find us
Enrol in a program, book a trial for yourself, or just stop by a class and see how we work. Adults and children both welcome. The fastest way to understand the academy is to watch a session.