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for the re-opening of the pool is Mar.
1 when temperatures should be
warm enough without for swimmers,
Dennis Fosdick, Texas A&M swim
coach said.
The indoor pool, built in 1932, ac
commodates about 16 swimming
classes per day, the university swim
teams, waterpolo team, intramural
swimming and recreational swim
ming.
“People use the pool straight
through from 5:45 a.m. when work
outs begin to 10:30 p.m. when the
pool closes,” Fosdick said. "The c las
ses which have anywhere from 40 to
60 students per class are too large for
proper instruction, and we need
more facilities to handle these clas
ses.”
The pool is open for recreational
swimming Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday evenings for three hours as
well as Saturday and Sunday after
noons.
“We easily get 200 people in the
pools during the evening swim hours
and the indoor pool just can’t handle
that many people,’’said pool
lifeguard Dennis Light.
The natatorium, when originally
built, was UK) feet long, but the addi
tion of a bulk head at the end of the
pool made it long enough for inter
collegiate competition. However,
Fosdick pointed out that the filtering
system and heaters are worn out.
“The indoor pool has the original
filtering system installed, in the pool
when it was built in 1932,” C. W.
Landiss, head of the Health and
Physical Education Department,
said. “I leave forwarded a request to
Dr. Calhoun and Dr. Williams for a
newly designed filtering, coordinat
ing and heating system.”
The new system will cost the Uni
versity <$41,300, if it is approved. It
will recycle the pool water every four
hours instead of once every 36 hours
as it does now.
“The present recycling system is
not sufficient for the load which the
pool is now carrying,” Landiss said.
“Funds for improvements in the
natatorium come from the available
funding the same as any other build
ing on campus,” Landiss said.
The walls in the natatorium have
been painted and new lighting instal
led, Fosdick said, but he feels that
the pool is not meeting the standards
it should.
“It is too shallow around the diving
wells,’ he said. The depth around
the wells is nine feet, but a 12foot
depth around the boards is the bare
minimum, Fosdick said.
“Even at 12 feet divers still hit the
bottom. SMU refuses to bring their
divers to our swim meets now after
one of their divers split his head open
during a meet.
Fosdick said that several A&M
swimmers have been injured on the
boards during practice as well as a
diver from Rice who split bis chin on
the bottom of the diving wells.
Wofford Cain pool is 50 meters
long which is the size of an Olympic
pool. The diving well for the towers
at the pool is 16 feet deep.
“The diving wells at the Univer
sity of Texas pool are 23 feet deep
and those at TCU are about 26 feet
deep,” Fosdick said.
“I think the outdoor pool is in fine
condition, ’ Landiss said. “We are in
the process of replacing the heating
system, but it takes time for the re
quests to go through.”
The funding for the outdoor pool
comes from student services fees and
fees charged faculty and staff mem
bers for their use of the pool.
A scoreboard and PA system were
bought for the pool by the water polo
club.
A&M Consolidated swimmers’
who used pool facilities for their
workouts have not been permitted to
do so this year because of the lack of
space. “We are having a hard enough
time trying to find time for our own
faculty to use the pool training or
recreational swimming,” Fosdick
said.
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