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Riverton Aquatic Center outlines year‑round lessons, scholarships and school partnerships
Summary
Christie Spriggs told the Fremont County School District #25 board the Riverton Aquatic Center offers year‑round lessons, preschool and school‑based programs tied to American Red Cross curriculum, scholarships for district students, and partnerships with local organizations.
Christie Spriggs, representing the Riverton Aquatic Center, briefed the Fremont County School District #25 Board of Trustees on the center’s programs and its work with district schools.
Spriggs described the facility’s mission “to provide an environment in which clientele have a positive and safe recreational and educational experience,” and said the center operates with federal, state, city and district rules in mind.
She told trustees the center runs toddler-time and preschool-oriented water sessions, spring/fall/summer lessons, and year‑round community lessons scheduled around school swim teams. Spriggs said the center partners with Riverton High School and Riverton Middle School for adaptive and PE swim programming, and that Frontier Academy students also use the facility.
The district and a local recreation board offer swim scholarships for Fremont County students; families may complete a form on the pool website to request assistance. Spriggs said scholarship recipients receive free lessons in summer, fall or spring with “no questions asked.”
Spriggs described additional community partnerships: a local Riverton swim club that provides year‑round lessons and competitive feeder programs, the Boys & Girls Club (which provides bus transportation for summer lessons), Job Corps and Fort Washakie adaptive PE participants, Special Olympics teams, group homes and other community providers.
Program priorities include public water safety, development of lifelong fitness habits and training pathways for local youth: Spriggs said the center is expanding preschool lessons, a junior lifeguard program (ages 9–14) that prepares students to take lifeguard certification at 15, and a proposed homeschool‑PE partnership with the Boys & Girls Club.
Spriggs also described staff‑led adult offerings: three weekly aqua‑aerobics classes that draw between 7 and about 17–20 participants per session, and public open‑swim hours averaging seven hours daily, seven days a week.
Board members thanked Spriggs and noted the facility’s value to both school and community programming.
