Ozark Community Center

Great facility for adults and children. Great kids programs and indoor pool. My kids have done swim lessons, volleyball, soccer, karate and the summer camps. This is a great resource for the Ozark community.

The Ozark Community Center, or OC for short, is a great resource for Ozark and the surrounding area. The facility is a green certified building and includes an indoor aquatic center, basketball/​volleyball courts, fitness center with weights and cardio machines, fitness classes like yoga and Zumba, a massage therapist and personal trainers, and meeting rooms. It also houses the Ozark park board, so it’s the place to sign up for team sports like soccer and baseball.
Daily childcare is available at the OC while you work out, and they also host day camps, summer camps, and kids night out events. The OC is also a trail head for a trail that runs west along the Finley river toward the downtown area and east through a small arboretum and into the woods.
My family has spent quite a bit of time at the OC doing everything from swim lessons and birthday parties to day camps and volleyball games. The facility is always very clean. The kids love the pool and have always had a great experience with the swim lessons and sports leagues that we’ve participated in. The day camps and summer camps are always well organized and well staffed.
The only negative I can list is that they seem to be disorganized on the operations side at times. I have friends who have registered and paid for events/​lessons/​sports only to be told that there is no room for their kids. We had a membership, and when it expired, there was no notification or invitation to renew. As a small business owner, I contacted the gentleman in charge of team sports to see if there were sponsorship opportunities and was told that they didn’t really have anything. It’s not often that I call an organization to see if I can give them some money and they say, «nah. not interested.» I’ve also noticed that the member check in is at an unmanned desk. It makes me wonder how many people just walk in and use the facility without paying, or just use their friend’s membership card to make the machine go «beep».
Overall, I think the OC is a great facility. I would love to see them tidy things up a bit on the back side so that it can continue to provide great services to our community.