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Club Ledger
How swim clubs are run, bought and sold.
Club and swim-school operations and ownership: pricing, coach pay and retention, board governance, succession, consolidation and M&A, nonprofit versus for-profit structure.
Disclosure
Research and drafting at Club Ledger are AI-assisted. Every factual claim is sourced to a cited primary or established trade source, and editorial judgment is human. Pieces carry a desk byline; this publication does not invent individual journalists. Ownership disclosure: Club Ledger is operated by Third Place Ventures, whose principal also acquires and manages swim clubs through Lane One Aquatics. Club Ledger does not cover any club with which Lane One Aquatics is in active negotiation.
Editorial standards
Sourcing
Every figure we publish carries a citation to the source it came from.
Quotations
Quotations are never fabricated; we only reproduce words from a cited source.
Authorship
Pieces carry a desk byline; the publication does not invent individual journalists.
Corrections
Errors are corrected publicly, with the date of each correction shown.
AI assistance
Research and drafting are AI-assisted; editorial judgment is human.