Georgia Tech Pool
From 75/85 Southbound: Take the 10th/14th Streets exit and continue straight until you get to 10th Street. (You will see the Georgia Tech basketball arena.) Take a Right. At the fourth traffic light take a Left onto Hemphill. The street is short and deadends at the bottom of the hill. Take a Right. As you come up the hill, you will see the pool and the roof of the pool on the Right, just behind the Student Athletic Center. There are parking meters along the street in front of the SAC building, and visitor parking is through the light on the left. From 75/85 Northbound: Take the 10th/14th Streets exit. Take a Left on 10th Street. At the fifth traffic light go Left on Hemphill. The street is short and deadends at the bottom of the hill. Take a Right. As you come up the hill, you will see the pool and the roof of the pool on the Right, just behind the Student Athletic Center. There are parking meters along the street in front of the SAC building, and visitor parking is through the light on the left. From Northside Drive: Go South on Northside Drive toward Downtown and the Georgia Dome. After you pass 14th Street (There will be a McDonalds and Burger King on the left.) and 10th Streets, stay in the Left lane. The road will fork off to the right, but stay in the left lane, going straight. You will see the pool on the Left. Take the first Left at the light onto the campus. Turn Left onto Ferst and park on the street at the meters.
Facility Information:
The home of the Yellow Jacket swimming and diving program is the state-of-the-art Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, located on the west side of campus adjacent to the Callaway Student Athletic Complex (SAC).
The facility was the site of all swimming, diving and synchronized swimming competition as well as the swimming portion of the modern pentathlon during the Centennial Olympic Games in the summer of 1996.
The Aquatic Center provides the Yellow Jackets with a world-class
venue for aquatic sports and serves as an important element of the physical legacy of the Games, enhancing the activities Georgia Tech can offer its students for years to come.
The 2,100-seat main stadium contains a competition pool and dive pool.
The competition pool is 50 meters by 10 lanes, with two movable bulkheads so that courses can be set up for 25 yards, 25 meters or 30 meters for water polo. It also features a movable floor which can be set from zero depth to seven feet, eight inches.
The dive pool features one- and three-meter springboards plus one-, three-, five-, seven and a half- and 10-meter platforms, as well as a Spargar system that sends a mass of bubbles from the bottom of the tank to ease entry into the water.
During the Games, the Aquatic Center also included a temporary water polo pool with a seating capacity of 4,000. It was used for all competition except the finals, which were held in the main pool.
The $21 million facility was funded entirely by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG). Construction on the facility began in July 1994 and was completed in time to host the VIIth Synchronized Swimming World Cup in August 1995.
Other test events held at the facility included the NationsBank Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the IXth Diving World Cup and the IXth Water Polo World Cup.
Georgia Tech continues to reap the benefits of a world-class aquatic facility for use by the Rambling Wreck swimming and diving program as well as the student body. Tech held its first meet in the aquatic center on Oct. 5, 1995, hosting Emory.
But plans are being formulated to further upgrade the Aquatic Center, making it fully functional year-round.
"We are very excited that the SAC II project is now becoming a reality," said swimming & diving head coach Seth Baron. "Not only will our program benefit from this project, but more importantly all of the Georgia Tech students will benefit from a renovated and expanded recreational center.
"We are pleased that both 50 meter pools will be enclosed, thus making the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center one of the finest swimming venues in the United States.
"There will be full ventilation of the facility, including humidity control and air conditioning. We will have indirect natural sunlight coming through high glass windows on one side.
"The project will also include men's and women's locker rooms, each containing 35 double-width lockers, with a team meeting room situated between the two. In the back, there will be a glass- enclosed area with an office and a storage facility for equipment.
"The office there would be a secondary office, in addition to the one I have in the Athletic Association. It would include two desks with computers, so the student-athletes would have access to the Internet, email, word processing and an additional area to do classwork and studying.
"For the divers, we're looking to add permanent hot tubs for practice and competition.
"When this project is completed, we could host everything from the ACC Championships to the NCAA Championships, Junior and Senior Nationals, U.S. Open, on up to the Olympic Trials. A lot of major competitions could be held here, bringing exposure to Georgia Tech as well as the Georgia Tech Swimming & Diving program."
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