Masters? Do I need to be a pro to swim here?
Heck no!
In swimming, MASTERS simply means 18 and older.
The Okotoks Masters Swim Club supports and encourages adult swimmers to come join us in active healthy living. Our goal is to promote: fun, friendship, health, wellness, participation and achievement. If you can swim 100 metres (4 laps) of freestyle and are wanting to increase your stamina and learn other strokes and drills, you will find a place with OMSC.
OMSC Today
Okotoks Masters Swim Club operates solely at the Okotoks Recreation Center located at 99 Okotoks Drive in Okotoks Alberta. Please refer to the registration tab for contact information, available sessions and schedule, and inquiries about OMSC.
OMSC History
OMSC was started in 1991 as the Okotoks Orcas. Over the years it has gone through phases of competitive masters swimming and more of a fitness club for local swimmers and tri-athletes with ad hoc workouts written on a white board. The club was run out of the original four lane Swindel’s pool prior to the expansion of the Okotoks Recreation Centre in 2006 that resulted in a six lane competition pool.
OMSC’s membership was capped at around 50 swimmers due to lane space and numerous potential members were turned away. Volunteer coach Leslie Posein entered the program in 2007-2008 adding needed structure to the Monday and Wednesday evening workouts. Interest in Masters swimming continued to grow in the greater Okotoks area and the club’s organizers were keen to accommodate more members. The pool management provided an opportunity for Tuesday and Thursday morning lane space in the 2008-2009 season and structured coaching continued under Todd Melton. The membership jumped to 72 swimmers but potential members still had to be turned away.
At the end of that season, the organizers realized that the club was at a size that required structure and process and the amount of money being handled justified formalizing the club under bylaws. A provisional board of directors was established in June of 2009 and an ambitious new program designed with a significant increase in lane space and practice times.
OMSC now operates between 70-85 members solely at the Okotoks Recreation Centre. Three incredible coaches, with biographies on the coaches tab, help make this club the fun, open, healthy, active environment that it is. We hope you are able to be a part of this great team and if you have any interest in joining, please contact us through our contact page.
Happy Swimming!
Club Sponsorship
THANK YOU to Our Outstanding 2023-2024 Community Sponsors for Their Support of Our Club!!!
We are currently looking for local business owners who’d be interested in acquiring advertising space in one of our designated sign locations above the Riley Minue pool within the Okotoks Recreation Centre. All proceeds go to sponsoring our outstanding team for the 2024-2025 season! If you’re interested, please contact helenJeanMcKee@gmail.com for more details.
Thank you to Kelly Hodgins and her COBS Bread team for supporting us for the fourth year in a row through their Dough Raiser Program!!!
Baked fresh daily by bakers with passion.
At COBS Bread, we celebrate fresh. Whether you’re picking up a scratch-baked loaf of bread for the family or a decadent treat for yourself, you can always be sure that the day you walk into our bakery is the day we baked it. It’s how we promise that every slice, every bite, and every taste of what we do will be a celebration of fresh, just for you.
Whenever you go into COBS to purchase some of their yummy treats, give them our Dough Raiser number and 10% of all purchases will be donated back to the Okotoks Masters Swim Club!
(#27198 – Okotoks location; #27199 – Shawnessy location)