In a few years, Ohio Wesleyan University will build a new indoor swimming pool and it will be 50 yards long.
Dear All,
It would appear from the USA Swimming web pages at:
http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en
That USA Swimming is committed to using metres in the future. In particular go to the parents page and search for meter.
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On 9/04/06 4:29 AM, "Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stan Doore wrote
In a few years, Ohio Wesleyan University will build a new indoor swimming pool and it will be 50 yards long.which Carleton MacDonald answered by giving a reference to the NCAA rules that show that all long pools designed and built after 1996 must be 50 METRES* long. However, for short pools, they allow either 25 yards (the rules state 75 ft) or 25 metres. It's too bad they leave the 25 yard option open, but perhaps the fact that 25 m is permitted and that for long pools 50 m is REQUIRED might help convince people that new short pools should be designed with 25 m lengths.
I hope Stan can get that information to the remarkably UNinformed people at Ohio Wesleyan. Maybe it will help. (And maybe not. Some people are very adept at ignoring the facts.)
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
*PS I note that, strangely, the exact lengths specified in the rules are 25 m, 2.54 cm for short pools (that is 25.0254 m) and 50 m, 2.54 cm for long pools (50.0254 m). How strange! Even the allowed yard measured short pools are specified as 75 ft, 2.54 cm, which is even stranger!)
Does anyone have any idea why such pools are just a little bit longer than 25 m or 50 m (or 75 ft), and why that "little bit" is exactly one inch?
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