Home to the Knights swim and dive teams the Venema Aquatic Center is a 50-meter pool with a moveable bulkhead. The bulkhead allows for multiple configurations: water polo, competitive 25 meter or 25 yard, youth swimming instruction, long course – 50 meter. A soft-water diving system allows a 50/50 air-water mix for softer and safer landings in diving practice from either of the 1-meter or 3-meter diving boards. For instruction there is a “wet” classroom for easy movement to and from the pool and classroom. The Venema Aquatic Center seats roughly 500 spectators.
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Olympic-sized, 50-meter pool with moveable bulkheads accommodates multiple events at the same time
- Pool accommodates 22 lanes at 25 yards each for laps or racing
- Pool has 850,000 gallon capacity
- High-tech pool filtration system
- Spectator seating capacity is 500
- Pool is 15 feet at diving end, four feet deep in the middle for swimming lessons and instruction and seven feet deep at the starting blocks
- Pool has four diving boards: two at one meter and two at three meter
