North Baltimore Aquatic Club

North Baltimore Aquatic Club
Meadowbrook Aquatic Center, NBAC's primary facility.

The North Baltimore Aquatic Club is an amateur swim club based in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1968,[1] it continues to offer training for young swimmers. It is best known for developing seven Olympic gold medal swimmers.

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Facilities

The club started training in the Loyola High School pool,[2] but as it has grown, it has moved between pools. It currently operates out of four pools with the main Meadowbrook facility at 5700 Cottonworth Ave[3] in the Mount Washington neighborhood of northwest Baltimore. It also uses pools in Bel Air, at Park School in Brooklandville, but stopped using the pool because extensive heat causing it to be dangerous to the swimmers and at Goucher College in Towson.

Olympic swimmers

NBAC has produced seven Olympic swimmers overall. The organization's best known swimmer is Michael Phelps, who initially competed in the 2000 Sydney Games, then came back to win six gold and two bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Games. In the 2008 Beijing Games Phelps broke seven world records and won the gold medal in all eight events he competed in. He now holds the records for most career Olympic gold medals in any sport and the most gold medals in a single Olympic game, and is two medals shy of the all-time record for most Olympic medals.

Olympic swimmers who have trained at NBAC include:

References

  1. ^ "Where only swimmers' best will do". The Baltimore Sun. August 14, 2008. http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/olympics/bal-te.sp.nbac14aug14,0,6811360.story. 
  2. ^ "Different Strokes". Baltimore Magazine. August 2008. http://www.baltimoremag.com/article.asp?t=1&m=1&c=30&s=482&ai=72791. 
  3. ^ Meadowbrook directions. North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  4. ^ University of Florida Olympians. University of Florida Swimming & Diving. Retrieved May 10, 2011.

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Coordinates: 39°21′57″N 76°38′56″W / 39.365729°N 76.648897°W / 39.365729; -76.648897 (North Baltimore Aquatic Club)


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