- North Baltimore Aquatic Club
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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:
- Patrick Kennedy[4] – competed at the 1984 Los Angeles games
- Theresa Andrews – won two gold medals in the 1984 Games
- Anita Nall – won a gold, silver and bronze in the 1992 Barcelona Games.
- Beth Botsford – won two golds in the 1996 Atlanta games
- Whitney Metzler – competed in the 1996 Games
- Michael Phelps – competed in the 2000 Games (Sydney), 2004 Games (Athens), 2008 Games (Beijing).
- Katie Hoff – competed at the 2004 Games, won one silver and 2 bronze medals in the 2008 Games.
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Different Strokes". Baltimore Magazine. August 2008. http://www.baltimoremag.com/article.asp?t=1&m=1&c=30&s=482&ai=72791.
- ^ Meadowbrook directions. North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
- ^ 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
Categories:- Swimming organisations
- American swim teams
- Sports in Baltimore, Maryland
- Buildings and structures in Baltimore, Maryland
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