Industry Hills Aquatic Club
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The Industry Hills Aquatic Club (IHAC) was a prominent
The organization ceased to exist in 2005 when the City of Industry decided to demolish the Industry Hills Aquatics Center. The pool was demolished four years later, in March 2009.
Industry Hills Aquatic Center
The Industry Hills Aquatic Center complex included two pools, an eight-lane 25-yard shallow warm-up pool and a 50-meter olympic pool with seating for 3,000 spectators inclined on cement bleachers built upon an earthen embankment on the north side of the pool.[3] A 10-meter diving tower stood on the southern side of the olympic pool, most famously used in the Rodney Dangerfield film, Back to School, and later in the music video of the Sum 41 song, "In Too Deep". The swim complex shared locker facilities with a 17-court tennis facility that bordered the northern side of the swimming pools.
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The swim complex, designed by Tom Dakon with many innovative features conducive to competitive swimming,[4] was just one part of a much larger adaptive reuse project[5]—the Industry Hills Recreation Center development—currently known as the Pacific Palms Resort,[6] formerly a Sheraton Hotels and Resorts property. The development comprises over 650 acres (2.6 km2), which include two golf courses;[7] a driving range; a 292-room resort hotel tower; two restaurants; notable convention facilities; an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) spa; an equestrian center (the Industry Hills Expo Center); and one of the few funicular incline railways in the world, constructed to transport golf carts between holes on the complex greens.
Prior to its current form, the site was a large refuse disposal site that accumulated some 3.5 million tons of waste from 1951 until 1969, characterized by "subterranean fires, pollution, exposed debris, unsightly cut slopes, and barren earth."[3] Extensive grading, contouring and landscaping transformed the site into a lush green-space development that serves as an attractive setting for the facilities located at the site. This successful adaptive reuse has been noted and followed by many other similar projects due to its innovative design, construction, landscaping and use of reclaimed water[8] and methane gas.[3] In 1981, the development was chosen by Civil Engineering Magazine as the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement of 1981.[4]
Olympic Athletes Affiliated With Industry Hills
- Jill Sterkel: American Olympic swimmer[9]
- Jenna Johnson: American Olympic swimmer[10]
- Jens-Peter Berndt: West German Olympic swimmer[11]
- Brian Roney: American Olympic swimmer (qualified for boycotted 1980 Games)[12]
- Natalie Coughlin: American Olympic swimmer[13]
- Michelle Ford: Australian Olympic swimmer[14]
- George Giziotis: Greek Olympic swimmer[15]
- Jeff Kostoff: American Olympic swimmer
- Los Angeles Coliseum.[16]
- Craig Wilson: American Olympian water polo player
- Michael Miao: Chinese Taipei Olympic swimmer (1984)
Aquatics Directors / Head Coaches
Demise
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Despite the efforts of many individuals to save the noted and aesthetically pleasing facility, the organization met its demise as utility prices and maintenance costs deemed the pools financially impracticable to operate. In 2005, the team ceased to exist, with remaining swimmers and coaches moving to a newly constructed pool and team in La Mirada, California.
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For a number of years leading up to the ultimate demolition of the facility, proponents delayed closure despite mounting financial costs upwards of $100,000 per year for utilities alone.
The City of Industry and Pacific Palms plan to redevelop the former aquatic center for another use that has not yet been publicly disclosed. The site of the former aquatic center is located at the base of the Pacific Palms Resort, at the southwest corner of Industry Hills Parkway and Azusa Boulevard in the City of
See also
References
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- ^ http://turf.lib.msu.edu/1980s/1980/800110.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Pacific Palms Resort". www.pacificpalmsresort.com.
- ^ "Golf Course Websites - Golf Course Website Design - Cybergolf". www.cybergolf.com.
- ^ Michael P. Kenna (1984). Wastewater Reuse for Golf Course Irrigation. United States Golf Association, American Society of Golf Course Architects. pp. 271.
- ^ http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/Documents/7b3ea2b6-00e9-43ef-95a3-52135bb745e5/W%2050m%20FR.pdf [dead link]
- ^ "Registered & Protected by MarkMonitor". vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com.
- ^ de:Jens-Peter Berndt
- ^ http://www.santaclaritamastersswimming.com/coaches.html Archived March 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/Documents/1872b09f-2f56-4b28-924a-9ddfcabe3f22/80_otrials.pdf (qualifier for boycotted 1980 olympic games)
- ^ Michael Silver and Natalie Coughlin (2006). Golden Girl: How Natalie Coughlin Fought Back, Challenged Conventional Wisdom, and Became America's Olympic Champion. Rodale Books. pp. 135.
- ^ http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/doc%204/d754f00d-1ea4-4b94-8d60-f5f15c79c0c5/82_sumnats.pdf (see 800 meter freestyle and 200 meter butterfly)
- ^ Greece at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- ^ http://www.ishof.org/Honorees/2002/02tschroeder.html Archived December 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, http://waterpolo.fullcoll.edu/wphistory.pdf, History of water polo
- ^ http://www.mybsac.org/bluewave/pdf/Coach%20Lamont.pdf [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Home - Schroeder YMCA Swim Team/Dive Team". www.wsacltd.org.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2009.
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