YMCA, Clover School District break ground on future facility

Ground was broken today on what will eventually be a 66,000 square-foot full-service YMCA with an aquatic center on Highway 274 across from Crowders Creek Elementary and Middle School.

The project is a partnership between the Upper Palmetto YMCA and the Clover School District.

Superintendent Marc Sosne says seeing the shovels turning dirt is the most rewarding feeling in the world.

“Knowing that we’re going to help children, help the community, hopefully prevent drownings in the future, teach all the children swim lessons and provide a world-class facility to the community as a whole,” Sosne said.

Upper Palmetto YMCA CEO Moe Bell says the aquatic center will provide free swimming lessons to children for the next 25 years.

“The school district is the perfect provider of that,” Bell said, “the right age, then also they can get every child–not just those that have parents who care about it.”

Every child is “going to come to our pool and they’re going to learn to swim,” Bell added.

Bell says the Clover-Lake Wylie YMCA and aquatic center is scheduled to be completed by early August 2016.