Additional Information

The Columbia Association keeps swim lesson costs down in part by offering set lesson dates and limited makeups but that said: we know weather, children, and pool equipment can be unpredictable.

Indoor swim lesson makeups will be offered the weekend following each 6 week session. Those 6 weeks will be consecutive except when gaps are planned to follow school calendar holidays. *The only planned gaps occur the week of Thanksgiving and HCPSS Spring Break. In the event of a weather-related cancellation, makeup date information will be forwarded to the email on file for the lesson participant/account holder as soon as it is available. To schedule a makeup lesson needed for personal reasons, please email swimlessons@columbiaassociation.org with the swimmer’s name and missed lesson date/level information to schedule your makeup lesson and note that we will not begin scheduling makeup lessons until the first week of lessons have concluded.

Outdoor morning lessons are offered Monday-Friday. We will teach all 5 days weather permitting, but these are priced at an additional discount because only 4 of the 5 lessons are guaranteed. For evening lessons, makeup information will be sent by email following any cancellations. We will also offer some makeup options in early August for classes missed for personal reasons. As with indoor lessons, these should be scheduled in advance, please email swimlessons@columbiaassociation.org with the swimmer’s name and missed lesson information to schedule your makeup lesson.

*Please note that make-up lessons may have a different time/location/instructor than your regular schedule.

**Once the session has begun and the slot has been made unavailable to others, the class will be considered non-refundable barring exceptional circumstances. To reschedule a personal swim training session, students must notify the instructor at least 24 hours beforehand or the scheduled session will be billed as scheduled.

The pool is not open to the public during lessons most of the time, so Google and other search engines may not show accurate information. You can find pool status updates on our website at columbiaassociation.org/PoolStatus

No. We do not usually close for rain.  We Do close for Lightning/Thunder. We will close for rain if the rain is so hard that we cannot see the bottom of the pool.  This is the same guidance for closing the pool itself so we will not cancel lessons if the pool is Open.

In addition to the outdoor pools, the Main pool of the swim center is not grounded and consequently must be closed for Safety in the event of lighting.  The pool will remain closed for 30minutes after the last Known lightning in the area at which point the pool can reopen.  We will offer as many lessons as possible in the time we have available, but each storm is different and the lesson coordinator will be the best resource for real-time updates.  In the event of storms/cancellation, we will do our best to contact you with the phone number and email linked to the lesson registration.  We appreciate your patience and understanding of the unscheduled nature of this type of situation.

Sometimes.  But more often than not the answer is no.  Lesson types cover a variety of information and it is normal for it to take several sessions to really have all the concepts in place to build on the next level of learning.

During the school year we will no longer be allowing non-members to sign up for swim lessons to reserve the limited space for CA-members and Columbia card-holders. During the summer months, we will continue to allow non-members to sign up for swim lessons because we have additional staff and pool space to offer.