Nica Nadadores is an international youth development organization that uses the sport of swimming to To use the sport of swimming as a tool to empower the next generation of leaders in under-served communities in Nicaragua. Nica Nadadores is a swim team, youth development and empowerment program, community service vehicle, and scholarship initiative. Forty-six percent of Nicaraguan children do not advance beyond ninth grade. Public schools in the area are overcrowded, teachers are under-trained and underpaid, and a full weekly schedule consists of less than 20 hours of classroom instruction. The scholarship program enrolls student-athletes in higher-achieving schools and provides them with the support to succeed. The program holds participants accountable for in- school performance as well as outside study.