Giving an edge to swimmers is not acceptable, since today timing is to the
one-one hundredth of a second.
Stan Doore
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From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:48 PM
Subject: [USMA:36512] RE: NCAA Swimming Pool Lengths
Bill, sir:
25 m or 50 m (or 75 ft)...
Should the criterea be 25 yards or 50 yards in contractual obligation; and
any change of contract shall cost more/expensive, may be the organisors
compromise the dimension on 'lower side' as:
25 yards =22.86 m (ask for 22.75 m or 23 m); and
50 yards = 45.72 m (ask for 45.5 m)
construction of swimming pool. A slight increment to 25 m or 50 m would
give an edge to SWIMMERS at alittle sacrifice to cost.
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:36511] NCAA Swimming Pool Lengths
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:29:09 -0400
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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