GCSTO’s Premier Private Lesson & Private Dry Land Session Program

We are proud to offer our Premier Private Lesson Program to any age group, senior or adult athlete interested in improving their technical skills in this sport. Stroke technique, kick technique, turn technique, start technique, and more can be covered. You name it… we can help you with it! We also offer our Premier Private Dry Land Training Program. Sessions for our Premier Private Lesson Program can be set up with any one of our tremendously experienced staff members on a schedule that fits best for you. Lessons can be held at most any of our locations while most dry land sessions will be held at the Concourse Hotel Fitness club located at the airport. In all cases, pre-registration is required and your lesson days & times are set between you and your contracted coach.

Cost (Team Rates)

1 to 3, 1 hr sessions - $60 per hour
4 or more 1 hr sessions - $50 per hour
(checks made payable to GCSTO)

Cost (Non-Team Rates)

1 to 3, 1 hr sessions - $80 per hour
4 or more 1 hr sessions - $65 per hour
(checks made payable to GCSTO)

Registration & Scheduling

To set up sessions for our Premier Private Lesson Program please contact GCSTO, Head Coach, Steve Nye (at stevenye@sbcglobal.net) and your inquiry will be sent on so that one of our staff members can contact you to arrange your privates. Please provide us with your name, telephone number, e-mail address, child’s name, their age, your basic area of interest, date & times preferences and any other information you think we should know. A coach will contact you to arrange dates and times. Once you are working with a staff member you may set up all future sessions directly with that coach. Sessions for our Premier Private Dry Land Training Program should be set up direction with coach Gloria McCarthy (gansmccarthy@juno.com or 614-581-1014).

Payment

Payment and completed application are to be turned into your coach by the first day of your private lessons. These coaches will handle all scheduling directly with you so that they can ensure the most efficient schedule possible for themselves and for the facility. There is a once a year $10 facility/insurance fee for each non-GCSTO member lesson participant due with payment for the first session in which you enroll (EX: if you sign up for 1 session and you do not belong to GCSTO your cost is actually $90 which is your $80 dollar lesson fee and your $10 insurance fee. If you sign up for 3 sessions in advance your cost would be $205 or 3 X $65 plus the $10 charge). Multiple session rates are good if you register for all of these sessions in advance or, in the event that you originally registered for only one session, you register for more sessions within the 7 days of that original session. Note that all checks are to be made payable to GCSTO.

Athlete Skill Requirements

All athletes registering for private lessons through this program must be able to legally perform at least 25 yards of no less than 3 of the 4 competitive strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle). If they are not capable of doing this but would like private lessons, they should register for these privates through “Swimming For Greater Columbus”, our swimming lesson program. Contact Erin Harris at gcsto_harris@sbcglobal.net or 582-2597 to do so.