[USMA:36523] Re: NCAA Swimming Pool Lengths

[G Stanley Doore]

I've brought to the attention of people at OWU NCAA Rule 1.  Thanks for all your help.   Regards,  Stan Doore   ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Hooper To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: [USMA:36511] NCAA Swimming Pool Lengths 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? ==========================    Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ==========================