ABOUT US

Southampton Recreation Association (SRA) is a non-profit, membership-based recreation club offering a wide variety of year-round activities for families since 1950.

Celebrating Many Firsts

There have been many “firsts” since Southampton Recreation Association opened in 1950. When the main pool was completed, it was the first community pool in then-Chesterfield County. In the 1960s, we boasted of our open-air ice rink. It is now enclosed, but SRA remains the first, and ONLY, recreation association in greater Richmond to offer winter ice skating our own rink as part of membership.

Through the years, we continue to celebrate firsts: like a child’s first leap off the diving board. The first time the ball sails over the tennis net. The first wobbly Figure Eight cut into the perfect ice of the rink.

At SRA, our focus is making sure that we offer a safe and affordable place for all of our families to enjoy their own firsts.

Watching the progress of our 10 & under tennis team even enticed many of us parents to get out there and play!

DENISE SPOENLEIN, Member Since 1984

I have played tennis recreationally for most of my life. The natural setting of Southampton, along with its exceptionally convenient location, make it a nostalgic recreational getaway on any day of the week.

JODY BRUCE, Member Since 1984

Southampton Recreation Association has seen the dream of a handful of civic-minded citizens in 1950 grow into an organization that has brought excellent programs to its members, taught thousands of children to swim, skate, play tennis and learn cooperation and sportsmanship. The adults  have benefited not only through their children but in working and playing together. Let us hope that in years to come we will see a continuation of the past excellence and the spirit of cooperation and good fellowship will endure.

Joey Nuckols, father of Lena, 3, and Mae, eight weeks, and a member of the Southampton pool. “Last summer, my daughter Lena and I went to the pool nearly every day. I’m not sure what we’d do without the pool.

RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, May 29, 2020