Cal Poly’s Anderson Aquatic Center closed Dec. 15, 2025 and is scheduled to remain closed until April for repairs and annual maintenance. As a result, swim, women’s and men’s water polo and triathlon club teams moved their practices to the Cal Poly Recreation Center pool.
The objective for Aquatic Center closure is the replacement of the pool’s waterproof lining, which reached the end of its service life, university spokesperson Keegan Koberl said.
Usually, Cal Poly’s D1 swim and dive team actively uses the practice pool for their practices and meets during the winter. However, the university cut the team in March 2025, which cleared up Anderson pool’s winter scheduling and allowed for a block of time for scheduled maintenance.
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While the pool is drained for the linear replacement, Cal Poly Facilities Operations will complete additional maintenance and repairs. This includes installing a new waterproof lining system and rebuild kits to extend the life of the pool equipment’s heat exchangers. Facilities will also pressure test the pool piping systems and rebuild the existing main pool pump motors.
To accommodate the practices of the student and club aquatic teams, the project team worked with Cal Poly ASI to relocate their practices to the Rec Center pool.
“We just had to pivot in the way that we’ve been coordinating with ASI for practice times,” Tyler Innes, Cal Poly’s Swim Club president, said.
ASI Recreational Sports expanded club sports block times at the Rec Center lap pool from 15 hours per week to 24 hours per week to accommodate the aquatic club sport teams, Dora Mountain, a coordinator in public relations for ASI, said in an email to Mustang News. These adjustments have not affected ASI Recreational Sports Aquatic fitness programs Swimfit, and their Personal Aquatics Training classes, along with youth swim lessons.
Innes notes that by working with ASI Club Sport Representative Ashley Jones, they came up with a wide range of available time slots almost each day, dedicated for the club teams to practice. However, Swim Club must coordinate its timings with the triathlon and waterpolo clubs.
“There’s four teams and each of us needs to have pool space. So just trying to find a way to coordinate that has been a little bit of a struggle and any last minute changes, but otherwise it’s been fine,” Innes said.