I coach at a YMCA pool (built in 1956 and is a 20 yard pool) where the air temperature ranges around 92-95 degrees and the water temp is usually around 88 degrees. Also, there is poor ventilation because the ventilation system is not working properly. Lately I have come home after coaching with terrible headaches. I worry about our age-group swimmers too because they are working out in such warm temps. The maintenance dept and Y will not lower the temp and have not taken our complaints as a priority. Is this a dangerous situation or do I need to just grin and bear it. Please advise if anyone can help or tell me who we can alert. Thanks!
Warm water temps at the Y are solely for the athritis classes aka noodlers. These temps aren't because of tot classes at all. This is a long running feud on this forum. My opinon only - the insistence of Ys to keep pools at 86+ degrees is a large factor in the demise of many Y swim teams. It is insufferable to swim in and awful to watch from inside a pool with water that hot.
In my area, when I was growing up, one of the local Y's had a swim team. We knew about it, knew people who were on it... they were coached, looked like they swam "real practices," etc. My mom hated when there were other kids' birthday parties in there, cause the atmosphere gave her a huge fro in about 10 minutes. But a couple years after first hearing about it, I hadn't heard it mentioned again.
The program guide lists that they still have something that would amount to some sort of team, but what is offered looks to be far from a real team. Their pools are today at 84 and 86, and they have a lot of water buffalo classes. I've never heard of them sending anyone to Y-Nationals (masters or youth). If they ever had any sort of program, those kids all went to swim for RMSC or Curl-Burke - at a pool that is not stifling.
As a matter of fact, I was surprised to hear that YMCA swimming was actually good and that Y-Nationals had fast people (aka the blue muppet) - primarily due to my perceptions of all YMCAs, based off this place. Any other Y I've visited, I've found similar "weather," and had no reason to think otherwise.
Warm water temps at the Y are solely for the athritis classes aka noodlers. These temps aren't because of tot classes at all. This is a long running feud on this forum. My opinon only - the insistence of Ys to keep pools at 86+ degrees is a large factor in the demise of many Y swim teams. It is insufferable to swim in and awful to watch from inside a pool with water that hot.
In my area, when I was growing up, one of the local Y's had a swim team. We knew about it, knew people who were on it... they were coached, looked like they swam "real practices," etc. My mom hated when there were other kids' birthday parties in there, cause the atmosphere gave her a huge fro in about 10 minutes. But a couple years after first hearing about it, I hadn't heard it mentioned again.
The program guide lists that they still have something that would amount to some sort of team, but what is offered looks to be far from a real team. Their pools are today at 84 and 86, and they have a lot of water buffalo classes. I've never heard of them sending anyone to Y-Nationals (masters or youth). If they ever had any sort of program, those kids all went to swim for RMSC or Curl-Burke - at a pool that is not stifling.
As a matter of fact, I was surprised to hear that YMCA swimming was actually good and that Y-Nationals had fast people (aka the blue muppet) - primarily due to my perceptions of all YMCAs, based off this place. Any other Y I've visited, I've found similar "weather," and had no reason to think otherwise.
