Pool Troopers

Tampa, FL · Formed 1952 · CEO Mark Patton

How it operates

Pool Troopers is the Tampa-headquartered pool service roll-up recapitalized by Shoreline Equity Partners in October 2020. It buys residential and commercial pool maintenance and repair route businesses across the Sunbelt - Florida, Texas, Arizona, Georgia and South Carolina - and converts them fully to the Pool Troopers brand while retaining crews. It completed more than 20 acquisitions between December 2020 and 2024, seven of them in the Tampa Bay region.

Tampa Bay brands (7)

Deal history in the region

• February 20, 2024
  Pool Troopers acquires Clearwater Pool Pros of St. Petersburg
  Acquisition Clearwater Pool Pros → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• March 1, 2023
  Pool Troopers adds Professional Pool Solutions of Carrollwood
  Acquisition Professional Pool Solutions → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• December 20, 2022
  Pool Troopers acquires Kevin's Pool Service of Bradenton
  Acquisition Kevin's Pool Service → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• October 1, 2022
  Pool Troopers adds Burke Pool Service of Tampa
  Acquisition Burke Pool Service → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• September 1, 2022
  Pool Troopers adds Pool Medic of Lutz
  Acquisition Pool Medic → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• June 1, 2022
  Pool Troopers adds All Clear Pool Services of Palm Harbor
  Acquisition All Clear Pool Services → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• May 12, 2022
  Pool Troopers acquires Pure Planet Pools of St. Petersburg
  Acquisition Pure Planet Pools → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC)
• October 13, 2020
  Shoreline Equity Partners recapitalizes Tampa's Pool Troopers
  Recapitalization Pool Troopers → Pool Troopers (backed by Shoreline Equity Partners, LLC) · 165 employees

Capital events

Recapitalizations, sponsor changes, debt raises, bankruptcies and exits at the platform level. These set the clock that local brands live on.

• 2020-10-13
  recap — Shoreline Equity Partners recapitalized Pool Troopers with management retaining ownership, to fund a Sunbelt acquisition program. [source]
• 2026-01-23
  exit — SPS PoolCare acquired Pool Troopers; Shoreline Equity Partners retained a minority stake. [source]

People

• Gary Crayton — platform ceo. CEO of Tampa-based Pool Troopers at the time of the October 2020 Shoreline Equity Partners recapitalization, in which he and president Dave Hahmann retained ownership.
• Mark Patton — platform ceo. CEO of Pool Troopers through its Shoreline Equity-backed acquisition program, quoted on the Florida tuck-ins including Kevin's Pool Service and Clearwater Pool Pros.