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Greensboro Aquatic Center to Host 2012 YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship
Submitted by abrown on June 16, 2011 - 2:11pm
The Greensboro Aquatic Center has announced it will host the 2012 YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship.
The event will be hosted by the Greensboro Aquatic Center in cooperation with the Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, Greensboro Sports Commission, Tournament Host Committee of Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum Complex, YMCA of Greensboro and the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel and Joseph S. Koury Convention Center.
The YMCA Short Course National Swimming Championship has consistently been YMCA of the USA’s largest competitive championship event. The event has average more than 1,600 swimmers between 2009 and 2011 with an additional estimated 4,000 spectators in attendance. The four-day 2012 YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship competition will begin on April 2, 2012 and conclude on April 5, 2012.
“We are excited and confident that Greensboro will make this an extraordinary event for our Y athletes, their families and friends,” stated Jim Weaton, National Director of Events for YMCA of the USA. “We look forward to celebrating the very best in Y swimming in this new, state-of-the-art venue. Our young people have worked very hard and their families have made significant sacrifices to see them develop and reach this level. We owe it to all of them to make this an experience, both in and out of the pool that will be remembered for a lifetime. We believe we have found such a place in Greensboro, North Carolina.”
With more than 200 Ys competing for titles in 42 events, “Short Course” is traditionally the largest youth swimming national championship in the United States. Participants are primarily from the Midwest and Eastern states with some swimmers from as far as California and Idaho. With total attendance for Short Course of over 5,600, the Y estimates the event will bring an economic impact of more than $6.5 million to the local economy.
“The YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship is a prime example of the type of economic impact generating event the Greensboro Aquatic Center was created to host and bring to our community,” said Greensboro Coliseum Complex managing director Matt Brown. “We looking forward to bringing a true sense of ‘southern hospitality’ to this event and making the thousands of competitors, their families and spectators feel like they will never want to leave Greensboro.”
The YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship will come to Greensboro after being held at the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 2011 and for most of the past 30 years.
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