Northside Swim Center Explained

Northside Swim Center
City:San Antonio, Texas, United States,
Coordinates:29.5646°N -98.6534°W
Capacity:2,400
Opened:2013
Pool1name:Competition pool
Length1:50 m
Width1:25 m
Lanes1:10
Pool2name:Diving well
Length2:25 m
Pool3name:NISD pool
Length3:50 m
Width3:25 yd
Deep3:4-7 ft

Northside Swim Center is a swimming pool complex located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The center opened in 2013 and serves the local community as well as hosting larger, national, and international scale events. In addition to outdoor swimming and diving facilities, the complex includes indoor swimming facilities in the Northside Independent School District (NISD) Natatorium.

Outdoor facilities

Northside Swim Center was built around the pre-existing Northside Independent School District (NISD) Natatorium, which is an indoor facility, and opened in 2013.[1] [2] Funding for outdoor facilities came from a school bond passed in 2008.[3] An Olympic-sized swimming pool, 50-meters long and 25-meters wide, is flanked by covered seating areas running parallel to the lengths of the pool.[2] [4] Automated electronic timing systems are wired to a large jumbotron-style screen to make timed results viewable during events.[1] [2] Behind the seating area on one side of the competition pool is a 25-metre long diving well equipped for springboard and platform diving and used for some swimming competitions as a warm-up and cool-down pool.[1] [2] [5] Locker rooms have a 1,200 athlete capacity.[1] [2] Outdoor and natatorium facilities occupy 202,000 square feet.[5]

NISD Natatorium

The NISD Natatorium preceded the Northside Swim Center outdoor facilities, opening to the public in 2006 and was funded by a local school bond.[5] [6] The Natatorium was later incorporated into the Northside Swim Center when the center opened in 2013, though it retains the name NISD Natatorium. A 50-meter long, 25-yard wide pool is housed indoors and does not accommodate diving activities, neither springboard nor platform diving, as the pool ranges from four to seven feet deep.[6]

Records

The following records were set at Northside Swim Center.

SportEventFormatDateTime/ScoreRecordNameNationalityCompetition
Swimming100 meter breaststroke (women's)long courseMarch 31, 20221:05.96German recordAnna ElendtGerman2022 TYR Pro Swim Series[7] [8]
Swimming100 meter breaststroke (women's)long courseMarch 31, 20221:05.58German recordAnna ElendtGerman2022 TYR Pro Swim Series[9]
Swimming200 meter breaststroke (women's)long courseApril 1, 20222:24.63German recordAnna ElendtGerman2022 TYR Pro Swim Series[10]
Swimming200 meter individual medley (men's)long courseApril 2, 20221:56.95French recordLéon MarchandFrench2022 TYR Pro Swim Series[11] [12]

Notable events

Notes and References

  1. [Melvin Stewart|Stewart, Melvin]
  2. Grevers, Annie (March 5, 2015). "2016 U.S. Olympic Team Training Camp To Take Place in San Antonio". Swimming World. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  3. https://www.ctinsider.com/community/northwest/news/article/Northside-ISD-books-2015-national-swim-3875203.php "Northside ISD books 2015 national swim championship"
  4. https://nisd.net/athletics/aquatics/ns-swim-center "NS Swim Center"
  5. Dawson-Cook, Susan (January 11, 2022). "2022 USMS Spring Nationals: Get Ready to Swim Fast in San Antonio". U.S. Masters Swimming. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  6. https://nisd.net/athletics/aquatics/nisd-natatorium "NISD Natatorium"
  7. Harder, Matthew (March 31, 2022). "Anna Elendt Drops 1:05.9 German Record In 100 breast, #2 In The World This Year". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  8. Byrnes, Liz (April 1, 2022). "Anna Elendt Lowers German 100m Breaststroke Record For Second Time In One Day". Swimming World. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  9. Pelshaw, Anya (March 31, 2022). "Anna Elendt Lowers Own 100 Breaststroke German National Record With 1:05.58". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  10. Byrnes, Liz (April 2, 2022). "Anna Elendt Adds German 200m Breaststroke Record To 100 Mark". Swimming World. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  11. Penland, Spencer (April 2, 2022). "Leon Marchand Shatters French Record In 200 IM At PSS San Antonio – 1:56.95". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  12. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220403-casas-clocks-top-200m-medley-time-of-2022 "Casas clocks top 200m medley time of 2022"
  13. Gonzalez, Charles; Brooks, Dawn (March 5, 2015). "2016 Olympic swimming team to hold training camp at Northside Swim Center". KSAT-TV. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  14. Race, Retta (March 5, 2015). "San Antonio's Northside Swim Center Selected As Site Of US Olympic Team's Domestic Staging Camp". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  15. Levoy, Olivia (March 6, 2015). "San Antonio to host USA Swimming training camp in 2016". CBS 19. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  16. De Leon, Erin (June 6, 2016). "2016 Olympic Swim Team Will Train at Northside ISD Swim Center". San Antonio Current. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  17. https://usawaterpolo.org/sports/2018/11/28/events-welcome-to-texas-shootout-html.aspx "Welcome to Texas Shootout (2019)"
  18. https://www.aquatexwaterpolo.com/events/welcome-texas-shootout-2021/ "Welcome to Texas Shootout 2021"
  19. Shannon, Chase (April 1, 2022). "TYR Pro Swim Series comes to San Antonio". News 4 San Antonio. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  20. https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/2022-swimming-tyr-pro-swim-series-san-antonio/ "Swimming | TYR Pro Swim Series | San Antonio"
  21. https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/san-antonio-heat-sheete37d61fa6cbc6a0a9b57ff00009030c2.pdf "2022 TYR Pro Swim Series Friday, April 1, 2022: Preliminaries Time Line"
  22. DeKunder, David (April 2, 2022). "Former A&M swimmer sets personal best in 200 IM at TYR Pro Swim Series". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  23. DeKunder, David (April 1, 2022). "Katie Ledecky wins again at San Antonio swim meet". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  24. https://seminoles.com/noles-shine-at-tyr-pro-series/ "Noles Shine at TYR Pro Series"
  25. https://usawaterpolo.org/sports/2019/1/23/welcome-to-texas.aspx "Welcome to Texas Shootout (2022)"