I had the opportunity last week to swim in the new aquatic center at the University of Missouri. The facility is AWESOME (yes, this is painful for a Jayhawk to admit).
It made me wonder, what are the "Top Ten" aquatic facilities in the U.S.? What would be your nominee to such a Top Ten list?
Here are links to a description and photos of MU's new facility.
Facility description:
mutigers.cstv.com/.../fac-mizzou-aquatics-swim.html
Photo gallery:
mutigers.cstv.com/.../062105aaa.html
Anna Lea
The MU pool is where the age group YMCA champs will be held. Long drive for us, but looks nice.
What about Recplex in St Louis, IUPUI in Indy. Indiana has a lot of nice pools, Bloominton is nice as well, and I have never been to Purdue or Notre Dame, but I hear those are nice as well.
Depends how you are ranking them. If you are looking for a nice huge facility then Stanford it great. It's a wonderful outdoor facility. If you are looking for raw speed and smooth glass water, I wouldn't put Stanford on that list. Pools like Indy, and the Texas Aquatic Center are still very fast pools even though the basis of many elements of their design comes from the Munich and Montreal pools in 1972,76.
John Smith
Personally, I love swimming the Tracy Caulkins pool in Nashville. Deep water, great enviroment.
Also, Auburn's pool is super for fast swimming. The high school where I graduated from opened a 10 lane 50 meter pool. I haven't raced in it but swimming practices in it are great.
Take a look at the pool. baylor.chattanooga.net/.../home
The University of Cincinatti Aquatics Facility is really quite interesting. They're hosting the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in March.
The pool includes a separate "lazy river" for all the lap swimmers who need a little boost. :) see attached. This link doesn't quite do it justice...but the space is an architectural work of wonders.
gobearcats.cstv.com/.../071106aaa.html
As I have told some of my friends that swam at florida, their pool is the only good thing about that school. :D
haha well at least you can find one thing you like about UF. :D that pool was my home for many years. :)
I would have to agree that the facility for worlds was just spectacular!
The University of Minnesota's facility is very nice as well as Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
LOL...that is certainly the only thing I like about them. Oh, how do your gators manage to let Auburn's defense score 27 points?
Now, back to swimming. I will interested to see Tennessee's new facility, once it opens...sometime in the next decade.
The Mike Peppe pool, which is a new facility that opened up at Ohio State University is a gorgeous complex and an extremly fast pool.
Also on my list is the University of Miami (Oxford, Ohio) pool.
