The facility will feature:
- An eight-lane, 25-yard competition pool
- A large, warm water recreational pool
- Bleachers and lesson observation areas
- A fitness space with exercise machines
- A multi-purpose event and meeting room
- A welcoming lobby area
- An outdoor patio for summer use
Our goal is to make the facility an attractive and integrated part of the high school athletics fields, the neighborhood, and the town.
A committee of local experts in architecture, engineering, and construction chose Boston-based Fennick McCredie (FM) Architecture through a competitive Request for Proposal process. FM Architecture has created a practical and beautiful preliminary design based on the facility’s business plan, site considerations, and community feedback. The design includes flexible spaces to accommodate fitness and aquatics activities for various ages and interests. Final facility features will depend on available funding.
The recreation pool will be focused on swim lessons, exercise classes, family fun, and aqua therapy. It will have access to an outdoor patio space for the summer months. The 8-lane, 25-yard lap pool will be for lap swimming, swim lessons, a town swim team, the Winchester High School swim teams, Masters swimming, and other water fitness activities. Fitness areas will include cardio and weight training equipment, as well as a separate studio space for aerobics, yoga, and other group activities.
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JOHN MAY, WHS Class of 2016, 4-Year Varsity Swimmer
A Winchester pool would be tremendous for the swim teams. IT WOULD MEAN NOT WAKING UP AT 4:00 EACH MORNING TO DRIVE TO MEDFORD. It would allow us to host meets. And since the sport would not be isolated from the school experience, more potential athletes would be attracted to the team. The past four years I have been on the team, we have had only 15 swimmers. This makes it hard to compete with other schools.
IRENE SCHNELLER, Winchester Resident (in Memoriam)
For all my 40+ years in Winchester I dreamt of a community pool in town and worked for one (in vain) on various committees. I longed for this at first for myself and my three tots then later to avoid the hassle of getting my Winchester High School daughter to her 5 a.m. swim team practice at the rented pool in Wakefield. And now, AS A SENIOR, LIKE MANY OTHERS MY AGE, I NEED THAT SWIM EXERCISE ALL YEAR, CLOSE TO HOME. I’m thrilled that Swim Winchester is on the brink of realizing that dream and I will do what I can to help those people working for a pool for all of us.
Malini Nair, Professional & Mother of 2
WE NEED AN AQUATICS CENTER THAT IS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY. Having spent a lot of time, money, and effort taking my daughters to swimming pools in neighboring towns, I am very much in favor of Winchester having its own pool.