Industry Hills Aquatic Club
The Industry Hills Aquatic Club (IHAC) was a prominent USA Swimming club located in the City of Industry, California, from 1979 until August 2005. For almost three decades, the Club was a successful training ground for a considerable number of athletes, some achieving success at the highest levels of the sport, both nationally and internationally, such as the olympic games. In addition to swimming, the organization included water polo and diving teams composed of athletes achieving similar success. The Aquatic Center's pools also served the community as a popular venue for high school swim meets, youth swim lessons, and United States Masters Swimming.
The organization ceased to exist in 2005 when the City of Industry decided to demolish the Industry Hills Aquatics Center. The pool was demolished four years later, in March 2009.
The Industry Hills Aquatic Center complex included two pools, an eight-lane 25-yard shallow warm-up pool and a 50-meter olympic pool with seating for 3,000 spectators inclined on cement bleachers built upon an earthen embankment on the north side of the pool. A 10-meter diving tower stood on the southern side of the olympic pool, most famously used in the Rodney Dangerfield film, Back to School. The swim complex shared locker facilities with a 17-court tennis facility that bordered the northern side of the swimming pools.
The swim complex, designed by Tom Dakon with many innovative features conducive to competitive swimming, was just one part of a much larger adaptive reuse project—the Industry Hills Recreation Center development—currently known as the Pacific Palms Resort, formerly a Sheraton Hotels and Resorts property. The development comprises over 650 acres (2.6 km2), which include two golf courses; a driving range; a 292-room resort hotel tower; two restaurants; notable convention facilities; an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) spa; an equestrian center (the Industry Hills Expo Center); and one of the few funicular incline railways in the world, constructed to transport golf carts between holes on the complex greens.
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