View of the pool soon after its opening in 1977. Marist had to contend with a problem in the design. Most college pools were two pools, one for diving, and one with a 25yard (or 50 yard) length, as most college meets were run in yards, not meters. Yet the move towards metric was beginning. How to avoid obsolescence yet compete with its current fellow colleges?
The solution was to create one pool, with a moveable bulkhead. This would permit races at the yard distances but also races at the meter distances.

Richard Foy

2010

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