Since i have been on the swim team for three years i can not tell you how many people do not even know we have a pool on campus. Our old pool that was open till three years ago was in the main athletic building , which has been under construction for three years. Since then we are in a building called Rollins hall. If you are thinking to yourself , where is Rollins hall ? its the building where financial aid is located.When you first enter the pool , you will be in complete shock that a college division one swim team has trained here for three years, and still somehow has an undefeated guys team.
Being on the team, we have named it the dungion. When you look at it you will know why, this three lane pool that they made into four lanes was built in 1937. Yes it is as old as most of your grandparents, and not even that but two people have died in the pool over the years from drowning.So talk about some haunted swimming pool, but then again it is a pool and water is water.
The swim team consist of 18 boys and 24 girls and the coaches have to be at the pool from 11-5 just so everyone can practice. The new pool will not open till march, me being a junior have swam in rollins hall all three years and keeps waiting for the new pool. Knowing ODU i probably wont ever get to experience swimming in it.
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