It isn't just individual swimmers who'll be hit by the closure of the pool at the Bob Snodgrass Recreation Complex in High River.

The President of the Tigers Swim Club, Terri Walker, says it affects them as well as they're just starting their long course season.

"We start long course next weekend, the Chinook annual event starts next weekend and that's the beginning of our long course season, so the closure of the pool is going to affect about 25 of our kids," Walker says. "Right now we've got about 13 who are willing to continue, but finding pool time has been a huge struggle, there's just not a lot of pool time available and now you've got us and the Otters (swim club) both looking at the same time."

Walker says they'll be training in Claresholm until the pool in Nanton opens up.

"Sometimes we have that dream that there'll be a nice, big pool put in Aldersyde but we haven't seen that yet," she joked. "The addition of something, if you could get a 50 metre pool in the area, they're so few and far between and 50 metre pools are where we do our long course events and right now there's only three or four in southern Alberta."

Walker says she feels bad for the Otters because the Tigers are usually done by the time it is scheduled to re-open so the Tigers will have gotten at least six months of their season in while the Otters are going in with a deficit of two months even before they start.

The pool will be closed from April 15 to July 3.