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Due to security restrictions in place, only vehicles with a Department of Defense sticker on them will be allowed to drive onto the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy for ALL events. ALL VISITORS ARE REQUIRED to either park downtown and walk-in through the Visitors Center and its security checkpoint at Gate One, or else park at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium ($5. per vehicle) and ride the free shuttle bus to and from The Yard. Please CLICK HERE for more directions to the Stadium parking lot and CLICK HERE for further information for visitors and on access to the Naval Academy.
Lejeune Hall is one of the many impressive athletic facilities at the United States Naval Academy. This fine swimming and wrestling complex is named after the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, a member of the Naval Academy Class of 1888. It is the first building at the academy to be named for a Marine Corps officer. Although the $13.5 million building is completely modern in conception and materials, its regularly placed columns and raised roof area compliment the traditional turn of the century French Renaissance style campus with its vocabulary of granite walls and mansard roofs. In 1982, Lejeune Hall opened to give the U.S. Naval Academy one of the world's finest facilities for all competitive swimming, diving and water polo events in intercollegiate, U.S. Swimming and Diving and Olympic categories.
Pool:
The large pool is 25 meters-by-50 meters with an eight-foot depth. A movable bulkhead enables the team to train at any distance. The bulkhead may be moved to the end of the pool and hoisted out of the water to storage in the ceiling for 50 meter competition. The pool provides 23 25-meter short course lanes or 10 50-meter long course lanes.
Deep water, wide lanes and the latest gutter technology available makes the Lejeune Pool one of the fastest competitive facilities in existence.
Diving:
The diving pool is 60-by-52 feet with depths varying from 14-17 feet. Diving equipment consists of two one-meter maxi-cheese boards, two three-meter maxi cheese boards and a diving tower with one, five, seven and a half and 10-meter platforms. There is a powerful bubbler system under each level and trampoline-dry land board port-a-pit spotting apparatus on pool deck to assist in training.
Seating:
The gallery around the pool seats 1,000 spectators in comfortable armchair seats. The spectator galleries are in close proximity to the swimming and diving pools which provides for exciting competition. Another 500 spectators can be seated in portable bleachers on the pool deck.
Lighting:
Swimming and diving pools are illuminated with bright overhead lights that provide 100-foot candle power at water surface. Two large sky-lights supplement lighting and add to the aesthetic beauty of Lejeune Hall. The diving wall has three underwater observation windows and underwater speakers.
Timing Scoreboard:
The Colorado Time Systems scoreboard and timing system is the most up-to-date automatic system in the world. The system determines elapsed time, order of finish and lap splits for each competitive lane to a thousandth of a second. The system records the results and transmits them to the scoreboard. The diving pool is equipped with a judges system that displays the awards, stores 11 dives for each of 99 divers, handles the addition and multiplication to compute degrees of difficulty, show the leading diver and flash if the current diver takes the lead.
Weight Room:
A total weight training facility includes free weights, Universal machines and full Nautilus weight training equipment.
Competitor's Facilities:
Facilities for athletes include separate entrance, locker rooms, showers, three saunas, large classroom, team locker rooms and a fully-equipped first aid/training room.
