• Home
  • Safe Sport
    • Safe Sport Recognized Clubs
  • Meet Admin
    • Meet Sanctions & Approvals
    • Meet Director Resources
    • Payments
  • MEETS
    • MEET INFO & RESULTS
    • MEET CALENDAR
    • MEET BIDS
      • 2025 NCS LC Meet Bid Schedule
    • Observed Meets
    • Open Water
  • Clubs
    • Find a Swim Club
    • Starting a New Club
    • Club Programs
    • Club Recognition
  • Swimmers
    • Time Standards
    • North Carolina Swimming Records
    • Top Times
    • Clean Sport: Anti-Doping
  • DE&I
    • Diversity
    • Swimmers With Disabilities
  • Coaches
    • Job Postings
    • Coach Recognition
    • Clean Sport: Anti-Doping
  • Officials
    • How to become an official
    • Clinics and Training
      • Advanced Training
    • Clinic Schedule
    • Tools, Forms and Links
    • Officiating News
  • Governance
    • Organization Chart, Board of Directors, Committees
    • Bylaws, Rules, Policies & Procedures
    • Meeting Minutes
    • HOD Information
    • About NCS
      • Financial Statements
      • NC Swimming Logo
  • Registration
  • All Posts
  • Volunteers
  • USA Swimming
    • LSC/Club Portals
    • USA Swimming Directory
    • USA Swimming Rule Book
    • USA-S Demographics
  • Southern Zone
  • Calendar
  • Contact Us
  • AWARDS
    • 2025 Zone Team Application Fee: PayPal Page

North Carolina Swimming

Promoting Excellence by Providing Resources to Support and Empower the North Carolina Swimming Community.

You are here: Home / Clubs / GAC celebrates new pool opening

GAC celebrates new pool opening

September 24, 2019 by Bill Martin

Olympian Hali Flickinger was the first one to jump in the new pool.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Sept. 24 to celebrate the opening of the new fourth pool at the Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC).

The 27,000-square-foot addition provides 19 additional lanes, making the Greensboro Aquatic Center the largest facility of its kind in the country. Hotel occupancy revenues funded the $8.3 million project.

“This new pool is a direct result of the tremendous success of the GAC since its grand opening in 2011,” said Greensboro Coliseum Complex managing director Matt Brown. “We are thrilled to have the fourth pool to help meet the intense demand for bookings, including meets, practice time for local teams and clubs and our incredibly diverse array of GAC programming, including the phenomenal growth of our ‘Learn to Swim’ program with Guilford County Schools.”

The additional lanes will serve myriad uses, including providing increased pool time/swimming lanes for GAC members, clubs and high school teams. The fourth pool will also create more opportunities for members to participate in exercise, fitness and therapeutic classes, swim and water safety lessons and general recreational swimming.

The addition of a fourth pool also further enhances the GAC’s ability to host championship competitive swimming and diving meets. To date, the local economic impact from Aquatic Center events since its opening in 2011 has exceed $150 million (source: Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau).

The ribbon cutting ceremony included remarks from Brown, Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan and Greensboro Aquatic Center manager Susan Braman. Immediately following the ceremony, special guest Olympic swimmer Hali Flickinger helped open the new pool by participating in a swim lesson with students from Greensboro’s Archer Elementary School as part of the GAC’s nationally renowned ‘Learn to Swim’ program in conjunction with Guilford County Schools.

Share

Filed Under: Clubs, Coaches, Headline Stories, Official's Links, Swimmers

SEARCH

Follow Us

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

SPONSORS

  • cheerwine-bannerx.png
  • Southern-Branded-Textiles-e1524447801773.png
  • Rice-Toyota-Banner-Ad.png
  • CAROLINA-SPORTS-BANNER-AD.png
  • Mail-Poet-4-x-1.png
  • NCS-Store-banner-ad-revised-logo.png
  • Hy-Tek-e1466705905902.png
  • GSBO-visitors-bureau.png

CALENDAR

Blogroll

  • 2024 Long Course Meet Bid Schedule
  • 2024 Long Course Meet Bids
  • 2024 Open Water Zone Results
  • 2025 Long Course Meet Bid Schedule
  • Kathy's Celebration of Life Memorial at DCPC
  • NCS Records Chart
  • NCS Records Page
  • Olympic Trials Meet Information
  • U.S. Paralympics Swimming | Competitions
  • USA Swimming
  • USA Swimming Olympic Trials
  • USA Swimming Parallel Time Standards
  • Zoom Link for Officials Training

Meets

  • Meet Director Resources
  • NCS Meet Database
  • PayPal Links

Official's Links

  • List of NCS Meet Referees
  • NCS/MSA Fall Officials’ Administrative Official (AO) Clinic
  • NCS/MSA Fall Officials’ S&T Clinic at MSA 09-09-23
  • Officials Clinics
  • Officials information
  • USAS Athlete Protection Course
  • USAS Background Check
  • USAS Rules and Regulations Page

Popular links

  • Coach Information
  • Coach Job Postings
  • NC Swimming Calendar
  • NC Swimming Contacts
  • Registration information
  • USA Swimming

Swimmers

  • 2024 Olympic Team Trial Cuts
  • NCS Records
  • NCS Top Times
  • Time Standards
  • USA Swimming Times Page

Copyright © 2025 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in