Yes, yes, I know... you all think that your pool is the worst (except those that train at UT or IUPUI). But before you vote, consider this:
- indoor 6-lane 25 yard pool, L-shaped
- built in 1969, with negligible upgrades since
- heated to at least 85 degrees
- operated by the city at a significant loss every year
- closes for three to four weeks every year (two for upgrades - aka cleaning - and two for "budgetary reasons")
- shared by the city, the high school, the local university and the swim club
- vacuumed once a week ("whether it needs it or not")
- lifeguards cannot be moved from their plastic chairs on the deck
- for lap swim, only two lane lines put in - not in lifeguards' job description to put in more
- patrons blatantly ignore the lane signs indicating "fast", "medium" and "slow"
- lifeguards do not enforce the above
- patrons of all types refuse to circle swim, and instead swim next to each other (again, with few or no lane lines)
- healthy mix of college girls in bikinis, college boys in board shorts, noodlers, and elementary backstrokers
Poll opens now.
My high school pool wasn't the worst pool (I know because a couple others in our conference were worse), but I just thought of something interesting about it. It was a four lane pool, so during practice the middle lane rope was left out because the divers practiced at the same time (the board was right between lanes two and three). So the divers had to time their dives to avoid the swimmers and the swimmers in the middle lanes had no lane rope on one side. Luckily I always swam in the wall lane so didn't have to deal with that. That's probably the only time I ever liked practicing in the wall lane!
You wouldn't have thought so, but it was actually a fairly fast pool. The pool records were good.
My high school pool wasn't the worst pool (I know because a couple others in our conference were worse), but I just thought of something interesting about it. It was a four lane pool, so during practice the middle lane rope was left out because the divers practiced at the same time (the board was right between lanes two and three). So the divers had to time their dives to avoid the swimmers and the swimmers in the middle lanes had no lane rope on one side. Luckily I always swam in the wall lane so didn't have to deal with that. That's probably the only time I ever liked practicing in the wall lane!
You wouldn't have thought so, but it was actually a fairly fast pool. The pool records were good.