How Are All These NYC Pools Olympic?

Tom, your link to the NYC pools brought back some great memories. One of my favorite places as an age grouper was Astoria pool. LCM meets were held at the "deep" end of the pool and were conducted across the width. The rest of the huge pool was more shallow and had these weird pyramid type structures (filtering systems?) in it. A great place to play between races. The 1964 Olympic trials were held at Astoria pool. As a 10 year old, I was amazed at how "old" one of the female swimmers at Trials was. Back then, pre Title IX, virtually no one swam competitively past HS. It was USMS's own Jane Katz, racing at the ancient age of 20 or 21. Over 30 years later I got the opportunity to meet Jane at '95 LC Nats and tell her how much her swimming inspired me and made me realize that the competitive spark knows no age limit. I lived near that pool, and my wife has tried to swim there. Astoria park was a nice place back in the day.

Tom, your link to the NYC pools brought back some great memories. One of my favorite places as an age grouper was Astoria pool. LCM meets were held at the "deep" end of the pool and were conducted across the width. The rest of the huge pool was more shallow and had these weird pyramid type structures (filtering systems?) in it. A great place to play between races. The 1964 Olympic trials were held at Astoria pool. As a 10 year old, I was amazed at how "old" one of the female swimmers at Trials was. Back then, pre Title IX, virtually no one swam competitively past HS. It was USMS's own Jane Katz, racing at the ancient age of 20 or 21. Over 30 years later I got the opportunity to meet Jane at '95 LC Nats and tell her how much her swimming inspired me and made me realize that the competitive spark knows no age limit. I lived near that pool, and my wife has tried to swim there. Astoria park was a nice place back in the day.