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Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center

Swimming Center of University of Texas


Swimming Center of University of Texas

FieldValue
nameLee and Joe Jamail
Texas Swimming Center
imageJamailswim.jpg
captionExterior of the Jamail Texas Swimming Center
fullnameLee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
cityAustin, Texas, United States
capacity2,600
opened1977
tenantsTexas Longhorns (NCAA)
Longhorn Aquatics

Texas Swimming Center Longhorn Aquatics

The Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center is an aquatics facility at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA. It is home to the university's swimming and diving teams, a variety of university-offered swimming and scuba-diving classes, as well as Longhorn Aquatics, a youth program. The facility also hosts the annual State high school championships in swimming and diving, run by the University Interscholastic League.

The building is named after UT graduate and longtime benefactor Joe Jamail and his wife Lee. Before the Jamail's name was placed on the facility in the mid-1990s, the building was known simply as the "Texas Swimming Center". The view of the Texas State Capitol from the building's terrace became one of the Capitol View Corridors protected under state and local law from obstruction by tall buildings in 1983.

Amenities

The building houses two separate pools:

  • The main pool, used for competitive swimming, is 50 meters long by 25 yards wide and is 9 feet deep. Two retractable bulkheads, stored on cranes in recesses in the ceiling of the building, can be lowered and maneuvered, allowing the pool a variety of possible configurations. Some of these include: a long course practice setup, with ten 50m lanes; short course practice, with anywhere from 16 to 22 25-yard lanes; competition long course with eight 50m lanes; competition short course with eight 25 yard/meter competition lanes, and warm up/down lanes; competition short-course with sixteen 25-yard lanes (two courses of 8 lanes each); and competition center course with eight 25-yard lanes centered between several warm up/down lanes on either side.
  • The diving well is 25 yards long by 25 yards wide. The north end of the well houses 4 separate 1-meter springboards and two 3-meter springboards and is 15 feet deep. The south end of the well houses the platform tower with 1-, 3-, 5-, 7.5-, and 10-meter platforms, as well as four 3-meter springboards; this end is 18 feet deep. Both ends have a bubbler system, which creates bubbles in the water that can lessen the surface tension of the water. The diving well can also be arranged as a lap pool.

Pool Records

Men's Short Course Pool Records

EventTimeNameUniversity/ClubMeetDateNotes(18.84)
Ryan Hoffer (18.43)
Michael Jensen (18.79)
Andrew Seliskar (18.40)(41.73)
John Shebat (41.65)
Tate Jackson (40.98)
Townley Haas (40.76)(1:32.06)
Austin Katz (1:31.45)
Jeff Newkirk (1:31.91)
Townley Haas (1:29.66)(20.41)
Laurent Bams (23.24)
Knox Auerbach (20.39)
Robert Howard (18.22)(45.25)
Ian Finnerty (49.60)
Vini Lanza (44.21)
Zach Apple (40.64)
18.63California2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2019
40.80Harvard2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 2019
1:29.15(r)Harvard2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships27 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record. Relay leadoff
4:08.19Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2019
8:33.93TexasTexas Hall of Fame Invitational5 December 2015NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record
14:23.09Michigan2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 2019
43.66Harvard2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 2019
1:36.42Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 2019
49.85Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 2019
1:48.66Arizona2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 2014
44.06Texas2017 Big 12 Conference Championships24 February 2017
1:38.57NC State2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 2019
1:38.14California2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2019
3:34.50Georgia2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2014
1:14.46California2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2019
2:45.12Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 2019
6:05.08Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships27 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record
1:22.26Alabama2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 2019
2:59.70Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2019

Women's Short Course Pool Records

EventTimeNameUniversity/ClubMeetDateNotes(21.82)
Katie McLaughlin (21.37)
Amy Bilquist (20.87)
Abbey Weitzeil (20.49)(47.79)
Katie McLaughlin (46.62)
Amy Bilquist (46.48)
Abbey Weitzeil (46.07)(1:43.99)
Ella Eastin (1:41.03)
Taylor Ruck (1:39.83)
Brooke Forde (1:42.37)(24.03)
Nikol Popov (26.51)
Maddy Banic (22.58)
Erika Brown (20.98)(50.84)
Ema Rajic (58.53)
Katie McLaughlin (50.00)
Abbey Weitzeil (45.87)
21.02California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019
46.26Louisville2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 2019
1:40.26(r)Louisville2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019
4:31.34Stanford2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019
9:21.00North Baltimore Aquatic ClubAmerican Short Course Championships7 March 2015
15:28.36Nation's Capital Swim Club2012 Winter National Championships1 December 2012
49.18Wisconsin2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019NCAA record
1:47.24Wisconsin2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 2019NCAA record
55.73Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record
2:02.90Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 2019
49.26USC2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019NCAA and U.S. Open record
1:50.28USC2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 2019
1:50.79Wisconsin2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019
3:57.03Stanford2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019
1:24.55California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record
3:06.96California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 2019
6:47.22Stanford2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships20 March 2019
1:34.10Tennessee2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019
3:25.24California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019

References

References

  1. (June 27, 2007). "Downtown Development and Capitol View Corridors". Downtown Austin Commission.
  2. "2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving".
  3. "Big 12 Record Book Men’s Swimming & Diving".
  4. "NCAA Division I Womens Championships".
  5. "Lotte Friis Vaults To 5th All Time in 1650 Free".
  6. "2012 AT&T Winter National Championships".
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