McCann Center pool

MaristLand

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.


A 2010 view of the pool in use for women's water polo shows the bulkhead in a different position to create a
regulation length venue for water polo.
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early photo digitized from Kodak slide; 2010 photo by Richard Foy
most recent revision October 11, 2012