The 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials competition pool was originally assembled at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in May 2024. As has become tradition, Myrtha Pools then sold the pool to non-profit group beginning construction on an aquatic center.
Two years after the pool was transported to Fort Wayne, Ind., for what would have been a major new aquatic center in the region, it is for sale again.
According to Wane.com, the pool is being sold for $1.5 to $1.7 million, including the starting blocks, lane lines and other equipment from the trials.
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Changing deadlines and budgeting ultimately halted the development of the planned $54 million natatorium that would have permanently housed the Trials pool.
“It’s just a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have this kind of a pool in our area. There’s just nothing like it,” said Fort Wayne Swim and Wellness Alliance president John Gibson. “It’s probably not just the top five, but maybe it could be the fastest pool in the country once constructed and put in. I mean, it’s got world records that were set in it, American records.”
Gibson pointed to Senate Enrolled Act 1, recently passed by Indiana lawmakers, that changes how tax revenue and school capital funding projects are structured as the reason for halting the natatorium project. The group had raised $48 million of the target $54 million budget.
“We have some financial obligations that we felt might be at the time that we at least explore the opportunity or the possibility of us selling the pool to be able to meet those obligations,” Gibson said.
The Fort Wayne Swim and Wellness Alliance is hoping to sell the Trials pool to a buyer in the region if possible, because of the opportunity it presents for elevating swimming in the region as a whole.
