Two of the major national meets of the 2017 summer season will take place in Long Island, New York, per USA Swimming: the 2017 U.S. Open and the 2017 Speedo Junior Nationals.
The U.S. Open will take place first, from August 2nd through the 6th. That’s a Wednesday through Saturday meet, much closer to the traditional weeklong setting of a meet than the Thursday-though-Monday U.S. Nationals we saw this past August.
The following week, Junior Nationals will run from August 8th through the 12th, which is a Tuesday through a Saturday.
2017 will mark the first time the U.S. Summer National meets have been held on the east coast in several years – the last time a summer national meet took place in the Eastern time zone was 2013, when Indianapolis hosted Nationals and World Championship Trials.
Both meets were in San Antonio, Texas this past summer and will take place in Minneapols, Minnesota in 2016. That comes after Juniors spent back-to-back years in Irvine, California on the West Coast.
The U.S. Open and Speedo Junior Nationals will be hosted in the Nassau County Aquatic Center in Long Island. The Aquatic Center is a large tub 68 meters long with three movable bulkheads to set the meet’s course. It also features a separate diving well. You can learn more about the pool here.
I was there this past weekend. The hvac is new, but air quality still isn’t great. The lights on the ceiling have stopped falling into the pool, but it’s rather dark for hosting a televised meet. Bulkheads are new, but very narrow. Not a lot of room for swimmers and timers and officials. There’s a great new scoreboard and the sound system is good. They have apparently also started building a second 50m outdoor pool next to the existing one.
Wow – I hope they will be doing some major renovations in advance of these meets. Hard to compare the Nassau County Aquatic Center to the facility in San Antonio, for example. Its pretty run down, to say the least.
When’s the last time you were there? Major renovations have already taken place.
There was a major, multi-million dollar renovation completed on the facility last September to bring the facility – new HVAC, bulkheads, filtration system, lanelines, etc.
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