) Exterior of the Jamail Texas Swimming Center | |
| Building information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center |
| City | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Capacity | 2,600 |
| Opened | 1977 |
| Home club(s) | Texas Longhorns (NCAA) 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.[1]
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
- As of September 21, 2020
| Event | Time | Name | University/Club | Meet | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 y freestyle | 18.63 | Ryan Hoffer | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 28 March 2019 | |
| 100 y freestyle | 40.80 | Dean Farris | Harvard | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 30 March 2019 | |
| 200 y freestyle | 1:29.15(r) | Dean Farris | Harvard | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 27 March 2019 | NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record. Relay leadoff |
| 500 y freestyle | 4:08.19 | Townley Haas | Texas | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 28 March 2019 | |
| 1000 y freestyle | 8:33.93 | Clark Smith | Texas | Texas Hall of Fame Invitational | 5 December 2015 | NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record |
| 1650 y freestyle | 14:23.09 | Felix Auboeck | Michigan | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 30 March 2019 | |
| 100 y backstroke | 43.66 | Dean Farris | Harvard | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 29 March 2019 | |
| 200 y backstroke | 1:36.42 | John Shebat | Texas | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 30 March 2019 | |
| 100 y breaststroke | 49.85 | Ian Finnerty | Indiana | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 29 March 2019 | |
| 200 y breaststroke | 1:48.66 | Kevin Cordes | Arizona | 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 29 March 2014 | |
| 100 y butterfly | 44.06 | Joseph Schooling | Texas | 2017 Big 12 Conference Championships | 24 February 2017 | |
| 200 y butterfly | 1:38.57 | Andreas Vazaios | NC State | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 30 March 2019 | |
| 200 y individual medley | 1:38.14 | Andrew Seliskar | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 28 March 2019 | |
| 400 y individual medley | 3:34.50 | Chase Kalisz | Georgia | 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 28 March 2014 | |
| 4×50 y freestyle relay | 1:14.46 | Pawel Sendyk (18.84) Ryan Hoffer (18.43) Michael Jensen (18.79) Andrew Seliskar (18.40) | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 28 March 2019 | |
| 4×100 y freestyle relay | 2:45.12 | Daniel Krueger (41.73) John Shebat (41.65) Tate Jackson (40.98) Townley Haas (40.76) | Texas | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 30 March 2019 | |
| 4×200 y freestyle relay | 6:05.08 | Drew Kibler (1:32.06) Austin Katz (1:31.45) Jeff Newkirk (1:31.91) Townley Haas (1:29.66) | Texas | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 27 March 2019 | NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record |
| 4×50 y medley relay | 1:22.26 | Zane Waddell (20.41) Laurent Bams (23.24) Knox Auerbach (20.39) Robert Howard (18.22) | Alabama | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 29 March 2019 | |
| 4×100 y medley relay | 2:59.70 | Gabriel Fantoni (45.25) Ian Finnerty (49.60) Vini Lanza (44.21) Zach Apple (40.64) | Indiana | 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | 28 March 2019 |
Women's Short Course Pool Records
- As of September 22, 2020
| Event | Time | Name | University/Club | Meet | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 y freestyle | 21.02 | Abbey Weitzeil | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 21 March 2019 | |
| 100 y freestyle | 46.26 | Mallory Comerford | Louisville | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 23 March 2019 | |
| 200 y freestyle | 1:40.26(r) | Mallory Comerford | Louisville | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 22 March 2019 | |
| 500 y freestyle | 4:31.34 | Brooke Forde | Stanford | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 21 March 2019 | |
| 1000 y freestyle | 9:21.00 | Lotte Friis | North Baltimore Aquatic Club | American Short Course Championships | 7 March 2015 | |
| 1650 y freestyle | 15:28.36 | Katie Ledecky | Nation's Capital Swim Club | 2012 Winter National Championships | 1 December 2012 | |
| 100 y backstroke | 49.18 | Beata Nelson | Wisconsin | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 22 March 2019 | NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record |
| 200 y backstroke | 1:47.24 | Beata Nelson | Wisconsin | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 23 March 2019 | NCAA record |
| 100 y breaststroke | 55.73 | Lilly King | Indiana | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 22 March 2019 | NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record |
| 200 y breaststroke | 2:02.90 | Lilly King | Indiana | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 23 March 2019 | |
| 100 y butterfly | 49.26 | Louise Hansson | USC | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 22 March 2019 | NCAA and U.S. Open record |
| 200 y butterfly | 1:50.28 | Louise Hansson | USC | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 23 March 2019 | |
| 200 y individual medley | 1:50.79 | Beata Nelson | Wisconsin | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 21 March 2019 | |
| 400 y individual medley | 3:57.03 | Ella Eastin | Stanford | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 22 March 2019 | |
| 4×50 y freestyle relay | 1:24.55 | Maddie Murphy (21.82) Katie McLaughlin (21.37) Amy Bilquist (20.87) Abbey Weitzeil (20.49) | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 21 March 2019 | NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record |
| 4×100 y freestyle relay | 3:06.96 | Isabel Ivey (47.79) Katie McLaughlin (46.62) Amy Bilquist (46.48) Abbey Weitzeil (46.07) | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 23 March 2019 | |
| 4×200 y freestyle relay | 6:47.22 | Katie Drabot (1:43.99) Ella Eastin (1:41.03) Taylor Ruck (1:39.83) Brooke Forde (1:42.37) | Stanford | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 20 March 2019 | |
| 4×50 y medley relay | 1:34.10 | Meghan Small (24.03) Nikol Popov (26.51) Maddy Banic (22.58) Erika Brown (20.98) | Tennessee | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 22 March 2019 | |
| 4×100 y medley relay | 3:25.24 | Amy Bilquist (50.84) Ema Rajic (58.53) Katie McLaughlin (50.00) Abbey Weitzeil (45.87) | California | 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | 21 March 2019 |
References
- ^ "Downtown Development and Capitol View Corridors" (PDF). Downtown Austin Commission. June 27, 2007. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
- ^ "2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving". Sidearmstats. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ "Big 12 Record Book Men's Swimming & Diving" (PDF). Big12Sports.com. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Womens Championships". CollegeSwimming.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "Lotte Friis Vaults To 5th All Time in 1650 Free". SwimmingWorldMagazine.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "2012 AT&T Winter National Championships". swmeets.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
External links