Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center

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.

Lee and Joe Jamail
Texas Swimming Center
Exterior of the Jamail Texas Swimming Center
Building information
Full nameLee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
CityAustin, Texas, United States
Capacity2,600
Opened1977
Home club(s)Texas Longhorns (NCAA)
Longhorn Aquatics

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

edit

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

edit

Men's Short Course Pool Records

edit
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

[2][3]

Women's Short Course Pool Records

edit
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 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

[4][5][6]

References

edit
  1. ^ "Downtown Development and Capitol View Corridors" (PDF). Downtown Austin Commission. June 27, 2007. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  2. ^ "2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving". Sidearmstats. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  3. ^ "Big 12 Record Book Men's Swimming & Diving" (PDF). Big12Sports.com. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  4. ^ "NCAA Division I Womens Championships". CollegeSwimming.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  5. ^ "Lotte Friis Vaults To 5th All Time in 1650 Free". SwimmingWorldMagazine.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  6. ^ "2012 AT&T Winter National Championships". swmeets.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
edit

30°16′47″N 97°44′0″W / 30.27972°N 97.73333°W / 30.27972; -97.73333