Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center

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Lee and Joe Jamail
Texas Swimming Center
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Exterior of the Jamail Texas Swimming Center
Building information
Full nameLee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
City Austin, Texas, United States
Capacity2,600
Opened1977
Home club(s) Texas Longhorns (NCAA)
Longhorn Aquatics

The Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center is an aquatics facility at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA. 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.

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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. [1]

Amenities

The building houses two separate pools:

Pool Records

Men's Short Course Pool Records

As of September 21, 2020
EventTimeNameUniversity/ClubMeetDateNotes
50 y freestyle 18.63  Ryan Hoffer California 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 28 March 2019
100 y freestyle 40.80  Dean Farris Harvard 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 30 March 2019
200 y freestyle 1:29.15(r)  Dean Farris Harvard 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 27 March 2019 NCAA , American , and U.S. Open record . Relay leadoff
500 y freestyle 4:08.19  Townley Haas Texas 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 28 March 2019
1000 y freestyle 8:33.93  Clark Smith Texas Texas Hall of Fame Invitational5 December 2015 NCAA , American , and U.S. Open record
1650 y freestyle 14:23.09  Felix Auboeck Michigan 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 30 March 2019
100 y backstroke 43.66  Dean Farris Harvard 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 29 March 2019
200 y backstroke 1:36.42  John Shebat Texas 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 30 March 2019
100 y breaststroke 49.85  Ian Finnerty Indiana 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 29 March 2019
200 y breaststroke 1:48.66  Kevin Cordes Arizona 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 29 March 2014
100 y butterfly 44.06  Joseph Schooling Texas 2017 Big 12 Conference Championships24 February 2017
200 y butterfly 1:38.57  Andreas Vazaios NC State 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 30 March 2019
200 y individual medley 1:38.14  Andrew Seliskar California 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 28 March 2019
400 y individual medley 3:34.50  Chase Kalisz Georgia 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 28 March 2014
4×50 y freestyle relay1:14.46  Pawel Sendyk (18.84)
Ryan Hoffer (18.43)
Michael Jensen (18.79)
Andrew Seliskar (18.40)
California 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 28 March 2019
4×100 y freestyle relay2:45.12  Daniel Krueger (41.73)
John Shebat (41.65)
Tate Jackson (40.98)
Townley Haas (40.76)
Texas 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 30 March 2019
4×200 y freestyle relay6:05.08  Drew Kibler (1:32.06)
Austin Katz (1:31.45)
Jeff Newkirk (1:31.91)
Townley Haas (1:29.66)
Texas 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 27 March 2019 NCAA , American , and U.S. Open record
4×50 y medley relay1:22.26  Zane Waddell (20.41)
Laurent Bams (23.24)
Knox Auerbach (20.39)
Robert Howard (18.22)
Alabama 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 29 March 2019
4×100 y medley relay2:59.70  Gabriel Fantoni (45.25)
Ian Finnerty (49.60)
Vini Lanza (44.21)
Zach Apple (40.64)
Indiana 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships 28 March 2019

Women's Short Course Pool Records

As of September 22, 2020
EventTimeNameUniversity/ClubMeetDateNotes
50 y freestyle 21.02  Abbey Weitzeil California 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 21 March 2019
100 y freestyle 46.26  Mallory Comerford Louisville 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 23 March 2019
200 y freestyle 1:40.26(r)  Mallory Comerford Louisville 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 22 March 2019
500 y freestyle 4:31.34  Brooke Forde Stanford 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 21 March 2019
1000 y freestyle 9:21.00  Lotte Friis North Baltimore Aquatic Club American Short Course Championships7 March 2015
1650 y freestyle 15:28.36  Katie Ledecky Nation's Capital Swim Club 2012 Winter National Championships 1 December 2012
100 y backstroke 49.18  Beata Nelson Wisconsin 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 22 March 2019 NCAA record
200 y backstroke 1:47.24  Beata Nelson Wisconsin 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 23 March 2019 NCAA record
100 y breaststroke 55.73  Lilly King Indiana 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 22 March 2019 NCAA , American , and U.S. Open record
200 y breaststroke 2:02.90  Lilly King Indiana 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 23 March 2019
100 y butterfly 49.26  Louise Hansson USC 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 22 March 2019 NCAA and U.S. Open record
200 y butterfly 1:50.28  Louise Hansson USC 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 23 March 2019
200 y individual medley 1:50.79  Beata Nelson Wisconsin 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 21 March 2019
400 y individual medley 3:57.03  Ella Eastin Stanford 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 22 March 2019
4×50 y freestyle relay1:24.55  Maddie Murphy (21.82)
Katie McLaughlin (21.37)
Amy Bilquist (20.87)
Abbey Weitzeil (20.49)
California 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 21 March 2019 NCAA , American , and U.S. Open record
4×100 y freestyle relay3:06.96  Isabel Ivey (47.79)
Katie McLaughlin (46.62)
Amy Bilquist (46.48)
Abbey Weitzeil (46.07)
California 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 23 March 2019
4×200 y freestyle relay6:47.22  Katie Drabot (1:43.99)
Ella Eastin (1:41.03)
Taylor Ruck (1:39.83)
Brooke Forde (1:42.37)
Stanford 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 20 March 2019
4×50 y medley relay1:34.10  Meghan Small (24.03)
Nikol Popov (26.51)
Maddy Banic (22.58)
Erika Brown (20.98)
Tennessee 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 22 March 2019
4×100 y medley relay3:25.24  Amy Bilquist (50.84)
Ema Rajic (58.53)
Katie McLaughlin (50.00)
Abbey Weitzeil (45.87)
California 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 21 March 2019

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