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Everybody wins: how could any facility be all things to all people? That's what dreams are for.(Competition Pools)

Aquatics International

| July 01, 2004 | Soto, Patricia J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I am sure all of us with a passion for aquatic sports have at some time pictured in our minds the Dream Competitive Venue. For most of us, any such venue is little more than a fantasy.

I, too, have imagined this kind of facility and talked about it amongst friends throughout the different stages of my life in aquatics--aquatic design engineering, coaching and competing. But like many others, I had come to believe this venue may just be a dream.

So many things have to come into play before you would get the opportunity to be involved in such a facility and then, as we all soon come to realize, there is the question of funding--the dollar factor.

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