I swim with a combined age group and masters team and am the master representative on the team's board. Our team is roughly 100 swimmers from 5 to 50+ and we live in one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Last week, our board adopted a new budget that added about 20,000 on to the monthly expenses. Sadly, I'm also a scout leader and had to go to a scout event and missed the budget. Our current fee structure doesn't support the new budget so the board is looking to raise the fee the swimmers pay. So I'm looking in to what other masters pay for their team. I'd also like to know how many hours a week you are offered coached workouts, if your fee includes the pool entry and if it's a combined masters and age group team.
A board member claims he read on the ASCA web site that the average monthly fee to masters is $50 and that was in 2004. I'm looking around the area and out of state and I don't see anything to support higher than that today. My fear is that if they raise the fees too much for the masters, the members will leave (we currently only have 6 - with additional 5 recently leaving over coaching issues and lack of lane space as they moved to to 1 lane to give the kids a morning practice).
So here's where we are now:
$45 a month/ 3 hours a week offered/ pool fee not included/ age group and masters combined.
We're $80 per month for 3x per week 5:30 to 7:00 AM or $60 per month for 2x per week. We share the pool with the senior AG team and set aside 2+ lanes for lap swimmers and we have our own very good masters coach.
When the pool is setup scy there are quite a few lanes (24+ I think) with the bulk head splitting the pool between the AG and masters teams. We generally have 10-12 swimmers and do share lanes on occasion. When the pool flips to LCM, lanes are a premium but they are really wide. The masters get 3 lanes (3 or 4 per lane) and the AG team gets 5 lanes (I think), which leaves one or two lanes for the lap swimmers.
In past recent years I swam for a Y-masters team and solo at LA Fitness - this is far and away the best masters swimming experience i've had and worth it.
We're $80 per month for 3x per week 5:30 to 7:00 AM or $60 per month for 2x per week. We share the pool with the senior AG team and set aside 2+ lanes for lap swimmers and we have our own very good masters coach.
When the pool is setup scy there are quite a few lanes (24+ I think) with the bulk head splitting the pool between the AG and masters teams. We generally have 10-12 swimmers and do share lanes on occasion. When the pool flips to LCM, lanes are a premium but they are really wide. The masters get 3 lanes (3 or 4 per lane) and the AG team gets 5 lanes (I think), which leaves one or two lanes for the lap swimmers.
In past recent years I swam for a Y-masters team and solo at LA Fitness - this is far and away the best masters swimming experience i've had and worth it.
