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.
![]() 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 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:
Event | Time | Name | University/Club | Meet | Date | Notes |
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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 Invitational | 5 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 Championships | 24 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 relay | 1:14.46 | 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 relay | 2:45.12 | 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 relay | 6:05.08 | 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 relay | 1:22.26 | 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 relay | 2:59.70 | 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 |
Event | Time | Name | University/Club | Meet | Date | Notes |
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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 Championships | 7 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 relay | 1:24.55 | 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 relay | 3:06.96 | 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 relay | 6:47.22 | 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 relay | 1:34.10 | 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 relay | 3:25.24 | 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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