The Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center is an aquatics facility at the University of Texas at Austin in the US It is home to the university's swimming and diving teams, a variety of university-offered swimming and scuba-diving classes, as well as Longhorn Aquatics, a youth program. The facility also hosts the annual State high school championships in swimming and diving, run by the University Interscholastic League.
The building is named after UT graduate and longtime benefactor Joe Jamail and his wife Lee. Before the Jamail's name was placed on the facility in the mid-1990s, the building was known simply as the "Texas Swimming Center". The view of the Texas State Capitol from the building's terrace became one of the Capitol View Corridors protected under state and local law from obstruction by tall buildings in 1983.
Amenities The building houses two separate pools: The main pool, used for competitive swimming, is 50 meters long by 25 yards wide and is 9 feet deep. Two retractable bulkheads, stored on cranes in recesses in the ceiling of the building, can be lowered and maneuvered, allowing the pool a variety of possible configurations. Some of these include: a long course practice setup, with ten 50m lanes; short course practice, with anywhere from 16 to 22 25-yard lanes; competition long course with eight 50m lanes; competition short course with eight 25 yard/meter competition lanes, and warm up/down lanes; competition short-course with sixteen 25-yard lanes (two courses of 8 lanes each); and competition center course with eight 25-yard lanes centered between several warm up/down lanes on either side. The diving well is 25 yards long by 25 yards wide. The north end of the well houses 4 separate 1-meter springboards and two 3-meter springboards and is 15 feet deep. The south end of the well houses the platform tower with 1-, 3-, 5-, 7.5-, and 10-meter platforms, as well as four 3-meter springboards; this end is 18 feet deep. Both ends have a bubbler system, which creates bubbles in the water that can lessen the surface tension of the water. The diving well can also be arranged as a lap pool.
Pool records Men's short course pool records
EventTimeNameUniversity/ClubMeetDateNotes18.63 California2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 201940.80 Harvard2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 20191:29.15(r) Harvard2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships27 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record. Relay leadoff4:08.19 Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 20198:33.93 TexasTexas Hall of Fame Invitational5 December 2015NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record14:23.09 Michigan2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 201943.66 Harvard2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 20191:36.42 Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 201949.85 Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 20191:48.66 Arizona2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 201444.06 Texas2017 Big 12 Conference Championships24 February 20171:38.57 NC State2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 20191:38.14 California2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 20193:34.50 Georgia2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 20141:14.46 (18.84)Ryan Hoffer (18.43)Michael Jensen (18.79)Andrew Seliskar (18.40)California2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 20192:45.12 (41.73)John Shebat (41.65)Tate Jackson (40.98)Townley Haas (40.76)Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships30 March 20196:05.08 (1:32.06)Austin Katz (1:31.45) Jeff Newkirk (1:31.91)Townley Haas (1:29.66)Texas2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships27 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record1:22.26 (20.41)Laurent Bams (23.24) Knox Auerbach (20.39)Robert Howard (18.22)Alabama2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships29 March 20192:59.70 (45.25)Ian Finnerty (49.60) Vini Lanza (44.21)Zach Apple (40.64)Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships28 March 2019
Women's short course pool records
EventTimeNameUniversity/ClubMeetDateNotes21.02 California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 201946.26 Louisville2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 20191:40.26(r) Louisville2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 20194:31.34 Stanford2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 20199:21.00 North Baltimore Aquatic ClubAmerican Short Course Championships7 March 201515:28.36 Nation's Capital Swim Club2012 Winter National Championships1 December 201249.18 Wisconsin2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019NCAA record1:47.24 Wisconsin2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 2019NCAA record55.73 Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record2:02.90 Indiana2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 201949.26 USC2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 2019NCAA and U.S. Open record1:50.28 USC2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 20191:50.79 Wisconsin2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 20193:57.03 Stanford2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 20191:24.55 (21.82)Katie McLaughlin (21.37)Amy Bilquist (20.87)Abbey Weitzeil (20.49)California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record3:06.96 (47.79)Katie McLaughlin (46.62)Amy Bilquist (46.48)Abbey Weitzeil (46.07)California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships23 March 20196:47.22 (1:43.99)Ella Eastin (1:41.03) Taylor Ruck (1:39.83)Brooke Forde (1:42.37)Stanford2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships20 March 20191:34.10 (24.03)Nikol Popov (26.51) Maddy Banic (22.58)Erika Brown (20.98)Tennessee2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships22 March 20193:25.24 (50.84)Ema Rajic (58.53) Katie McLaughlin (50.00)Abbey Weitzeil (45.87)California2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships21 March 2019
References
External links Jamail Texas Swimming Center at UT Recreational Sports Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center