![]() Exterior of the Jamail Texas Swimming Center | |
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Full name | Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center |
City | Austin, Texas, United States |
Capacity | 2,600 |
Opened | 1977 |
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.
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]
The building houses two separate pools:
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