Graham Natatorium
855 South New Street
West Chester, PA 19383
Capacity: 1000
Home to WCU Men's and Women's Swimming
Built in conjunction with the Russell L. Sturzebecker Health Science Center in 1970, the Graham Natatorium is dedicated to the late Charles Graham, a WCU professor and coach, who started the men’s swimming program in 1936. The swimming pool at Graham Natatorium is one of the top facilities in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. It features six lanes for competition plus six warm-up and cool-down lanes, a Colorado timing system with a six-line scoreboard, and Competitor Anti-Wave lane lines. The natatorium hosted the PSAC men's and women's swimming championships on eight different occasions, before the conference championship meet was moved to a neutral site in 2006.
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The Graham Natatorium is home to one of the largest summer swim lessons programs on the Eastern seaboard. Operated by the head swimming & diving coach at West Chester University, this swim lessons program is a major fund-raising arm of the swimming & diving program at the University and has been recognized regionally as an award-winning program, teaching thousands of children how to swim and be safe in and around the water.