Forest Hill Swim & Tennis Club

Name

Forest Hill Swim & Tennis Club

Legal name

Forest Hill Swim & Tennis Club

Website

https://fhstc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1958

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recreational Club Services

NAICS

Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (713940), Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds) (721214), Sports and Recreation Instruction (611620)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Tennis & Racquet Sports Clubs (Tennis, Padel, Pickleball, Squash) (MPAKABAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Youth Multi-Sport Camps (General Athletics, Summer Camps) (MPAKAJAA)

Keywords

• Swim and tennis club
• Membership recreation club
• Junior tennis programs
• Summer youth camp
• Pickleball league play

Headquarters

HQ city

Ellicott City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues and Bonds: Annual membership fees plus membership bonds paid by member families. The club caps at 500 member families.
2. Membership Application Fee: Non-refundable $100-$150 application fee for new members joining the waitlist.
3. Summer Camp Fees: Week-long summer camp programs for children ages 5-11, offered in full-day, morning, and afternoon sessions. Registration fees range from $200-$425 per week.
4. Tennis Instruction: Private lessons, semi-private lessons, group clinics, junior programs, and hitting sessions with tennis assistants. Also includes racket stringing services.
5. Masters Swim Program: Adult Masters swim program running 10 weeks during summer, with separate pricing for members and non-members.
6. Pickleball Programs: Junior pickleball camps, adult clinics, and league play. League fees are per team, with member and non-member rates.
7. Dive Lessons: Diving instruction for children and adults of all skill levels.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Forest Hill Swim & Tennis Club operates a seasonal, membership-based recreational facility on 19 acres in Ellicott City, Maryland, offering family swim, dive, tennis, and pickleball programs. The core offering is capped at 500 member families who gain seasonal access to a Division 1 Swim Team, Dive Team, Masters Swim, private and group tennis lessons, pickleball league play, and a summer day camp for ages 5-11. Programs are sold both as annual memberships and as individual lesson, clinic, league, and camp registrations, with discounted member rates and premium non-member guest pricing.

Product overview

Forest Hill Swim & Tennis Club is a seasonal, non-profit neighborhood swim and tennis club offering a comprehensive portfolio of recreational programs. The club operates primarily during summer (Memorial Day through Labor Day) on 19 acres with a 500-family membership cap. The product portfolio centers on four core programs: Aquatics (Swim Team, Dive Team, Masters Swim, Swim Lessons, Dive Lessons), Tennis (lessons, junior programs, adult workouts, racquet stringing), Pickleball (league play, clinics, junior programs, drop-in sessions), and Summer Camp (full-day and half-day programs for ages 5-11 featuring swimming, water activities, tennis, pickleball, and outdoor games). The club also offers membership access and various social events. All programs are available to members, with limited availability for non-members through guest fees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Membership Program

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• MemberSplash: Forest Hill's existing technology vendor for membership management and website. Included as an ecosystem participant rather than a competitor; relevant for understanding the club's operational stack and benchmarking against similar-club platforms.
• Howard County Department of Recreation & Parks: The municipal recreation provider for the same Howard County market. Provides public-pool, swim-lesson, tennis, and summer-camp programming that overlaps with Forest Hill's offerings, acting as a price-sensitive adjacent alternative.

Emerging players

• Pickleball Central / Chicken N Pickle: An emerging pickleball-focused venue operator offering league play, clinics, and youth programming. Comparable to Forest Hill's pickleball program in product and customer, though for-profit and venue-based rather than club-membership.

Broad incumbents

• Woodmont Country Club: A larger, established private country club in the Maryland/DC region offering tennis, swimming, dining, and family programming. Comparable along programming and target family demographic but a broader-incumbent, for-profit club.
• Suburban Club of Bethesda: A larger, broader-incumbent country-club-style facility in the DC/Maryland region offering racquet sports, swimming, dining, and social programming. Overlaps with Forest Hill on core tennis/pool programming but serves a wider, more affluent membership base.
• Life Time Fitness: A national broad-incumbent operator of fitness and recreational sports centers with outdoor pools, tennis, and pickleball programming. Provides a reference point for scaled, for-profit operation of overlapping amenity categories.

Direct peers

• Meadowbrook Aquatic & Fitness Center: A long-standing Mid-Atlantic swim and tennis club offering comparable aquatics, tennis, and family programming. Operates a similar membership-driven, family-oriented model in the same regional market.
• Crofton Swim & Tennis Club: Direct peer in Crofton, MD. Non-profit membership-based swim and tennis club with comparable aquatics, tennis, summer camp, and family programming serving a similar suburban Maryland demographic.
• Columbia Swim & Tennis Club: A direct peer located in nearby Columbia, MD. Operates as a similar non-profit, membership-based swim and tennis club serving Howard County families with aquatics, tennis, and youth programming — competing directly for the same household base.
• Hillcrest Tennis & Swimming Club: Direct peer membership swim and tennis club in the Mid-Atlantic region, offering tennis, swim team, summer camp, and family programming under a comparable non-profit operating model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks2 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/FHSTC
• Instagraminstagram/foresthillfrogs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/forest-hill-swim-tennis-club

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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