2013-14 NAVY & DIVING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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Opened in 1982 at a cost of $13.5 million, Lejeune Hall was the first building at the Naval Academy to be named for a Marine Corps officer. Although the building is completely modern in conception and materials, its regularly placed columns and raised roof area compliment the traditional turn of the century French Renaissance style campus with its vocabulary of granite walls and mansard roofs. The facility provides the U.S. Naval Academy with one of the world’s finest facilities for all competitive swimming, diving and water polo events in intercollegiate, U.S. Swimming and Diving and Olympic categories.

Lt. Gen. John Archer Lejeune, USMC Navy’s swimming and wrestling complex is named after the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, a member of the Naval Academy Class of 1888. He served more than 45 years in uniform, fought in World War I and completed nearly three terms as Commandant of the Marine Corps until retirement in 1929.

Pool The large pool is 25 meters-by-50 meters with an eight-foot depth. A movable bulkhead enables the team to train at any distance. The bulkhead may be moved to the end of the pool and hoisted out of the water to storage in the ceiling for 50 meter competition. The pool provides 23 25-meter short course lanes or 10 50-meter long course lanes.

Deep water, wide lanes and the latest gutter technology available makes the Lejeune Pool one of the fastest competitive facilities in existence.

2012 Renovation The pool underwent a nearly $11 million renovation in the fall of 2012. Included among the list of upgrades to the facility were: installed a Daktronics 10mm video board display and swim / dive scoring system; replaced pool filtration, circulation, and chlorination systems; replaced all tile in the pools and on pool decks; replaced HVAC system; repainted the walls; replaced the movable bulkhead in the lap pool and replaced the glazed glass in both skylights.

Diving The diving well also saw extensive renovations to it take place in the summer of 2009 season as the building’s original diving tower was torn down and replaced by a new one. The over $1 million project featured new 1 and 3-meter springboard areas, as well as the construction of new 5, 7.5 and 10-meter platform areas. Over 100-yards of concrete form the new cantilevered tower, with glass handrails connecting walkways to each of the diving sections. The diving pool is 60-feet-by-52-feet with depths varying from 14-17 feet. There is a powerful bubbler system under each level and a trampoline-dry land board port-a-pit apparatus located on the pool deck to assist in training. In addition, the diving wall has three underwater observation windows.

Seating The gallery around the pool seats 1,000 spectators in comfortable armchair seats. The spectator galleries are in close proximity to the swimming and diving pools which provides for exciting competition. Another 500 spectators can be seated in portable bleachers on the pool deck.

Lighting Swimming and diving pools are illuminated with bright overhead lights that provide 100-foot candle power at water surface. Two large sky-lights supplement lighting and add to the aesthetic beauty of Lejeune Hall. The diving wall has three underwater observation windows and underwater speakers.

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Timing Scoreboard The Colorado Time Systems scoreboard and timing system is the most up-to-date automatic system in the world. The system determines elapsed time, order of finish and lap splits for each competitive lane to a thousandth of a second. The system records the results and transmits them to the scoreboard. The diving pool is equipped with a judges system that displays the awards, stores 11 dives for each of 99 divers, handles the addition and multiplication to compute degrees of difficulty, show the leading diver and flash if the current diver takes the lead.

Competitor’s Facilities Facilities for athletes include separate entrance, locker rooms, showers, three saunas, large classroom, team locker rooms and a fully-equipped first aid/training room.

Olympians and Lejeune Hall In addition to serving as the home facility for the U.S. Naval Academy swimming and water polo teams, Lejeune Hall also has been the host site for many other prominent aquatic competitions over its quarter- century history. Even a snapshot of Olympians, world champions and word record holders who have taken to the waters of the building is an impressive one.

• Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis and two-time Olympic medalist Kelly McCormick established Lejeune Hall diving records that still stand today. The entire U.S. Diving team also competed in meets in Lejeune Hall prior to the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games.

• set a pair of American records in the building prior to winning six Gold Medals at the 2004 Olympics and later set the 200 Fly American record in March 2010.

• Like Phelps, (2004 & ‘08 Olympian, ‘05 & ‘07 World Champion), Kate Ziegler (2007 World Champion, 2008 & ‘12 Olympian), (2008 & ‘12 Olympian) and Brad Schumacher (1996 Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming and ‘04 Olympian with water polo team) also have made frequent – and memorable – visits to The Yard.

Current Lejeune Hall Records Held by U.S. Olympians Katie Hoff (pictured) • 100/200 Butterfly • 500**/1000**/1650** Freestyle • 200/400 Individual Medley

Greg Louganis • 3-Meter Diving

Kelly McCormick • 3-Meter Diving

Michael Phelps (pictured) • 100/200 Backstroke • 100 Breaststroke • 100/200** Butterfly • 100/200 Freestyle • 200/400 Individual Medley

Allison Schmitt • 200 Freestyle

** American Record

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Now in its third decade as an all-sport conference combining academic and athletic excellence, the Patriot League sponsors championships in 24 men and women’s sports. Initially started as an NCAA Division I-AA football conference in 1986, the Patriot League became an all-sport conference in 1990 and includes American, Army, Boston University, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Loyola and Navy as full members, and Fordham, Georgetown and MIT as associate members. Boston University and Loyola University join the Patriot League beginning with the 2013-14 season. These institutions are among the oldest and most prestigious in the nation and their alumni have and continue to play leadership roles in shaping our country.

Since 1998, the Patriot League has ranked first each year among all Division I conferences awarding athletic aid in the NCAA Graduation Rate Report. The League also had 80 percent of its teams posting an APR score of 985 or higher in the most recent data, and 71 Patriot League teams earned NCAA Academic Performance Program Public Recognition Awards after posting academic progress rate scores in the top-10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. Stephen Cooksey earned Patriot League Coach of the The Patriot League’s mission is simple: to provide successful competitive athletic experiences while Year honors following Navy’s maintaining high academic standards, and to prepare its student-athletes to be leaders in society. title at the Men’s Indoor Track During the 2012-13 academic year, Patriot League student-athletes and teams accomplished the following: & Field Championships.

I The Patriot League ranked second among all conferences in multi-year APR rating, and led all leagues in men’s basketball and baseball APR.

I 71 Patriot League teams, and 74 from full-member institutions, received NCAA Public Recognition Awards for finishing in the top-10 percent of their sport in APR data.

I Lehigh repeated as the top men’s program in the Presidents’ Cup standings, while Navy once again led the way on the women’s side.

I Bucknell’s Leonard Joseph and Navy’s Zack Duncavage each earned Second-Team All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

I Navy’s Annie-Norah Beveridge and American’s Mark Allen ran at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.

I Navy’s Jasmine DePompeo was up for the Tewaaraton award in women’s lacrosse, and became the first Patriot Leaguer since 1997 to be named an All-American by the IWLCA.

I Navy became the first Patriot League team to win an NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament game when it beat Monmouth in the first round on May 10. Jasmine DePompeo was named the Women’s Lacrosse Offensive Player I Six Patriot League student-athletes were awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships: Navy’s Chris of the Year for third time and was the Galvin (Track and Field), Laura Gorinski (Swimming and Diving), Brigid Byrne (Track and Field) and Tournament MVP for the second time. Jasmine DePompeo (Women’s Lacrosse); Fordham’s Patrick Murray (Football) and Bucknell’s Christian Treat (Swimming and Diving).

I Army’s Brendan Buckley and Navy’s Brigid Byrne were named the Patriot League Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year winners, respectively.

I 14 student-athletes from Patriot League sports earned Capital One Academic All-America recognition, including first-team selections for Navy’s Jasmine DePompeo (Women’s At-Large), Brigid Byrne (Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country) and Chris Galvin (Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country); Colgate’s Chris Looney (Football) and Army’s Brendan Buckley (Men’s At-Large).

I Navy’s Laura Gorinski (Women’s Swimming) and Army’s Ariana Mankus (Volleyball) were the Patriot League nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.

Navy women’s basketball won the 2013 Patriot League Tournament title, marking the third-consecutive postseason championship for the program.

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2012-13 PATRIOT LEAGUE HONORS

Team Titles (10) Women’s Cross Country Women’s Soccer (regular season) Men’s Swimming & Diving Women’s Swimming & Diving Brigid Byrne was named Men’s Indoor Track & Field Patriot League Women’s Women’s Basketball (co-regular season & tournament) Women’s Lacrosse (regular season & tournament) Overall Scholar-Athlete of the Women’s Rowing Year in addition to the Scholar- Athlete of the Year for both Coach of the Year (5) women’s cross country and Karen Boyle, Women’s Cross Country women’s outdoor track & field. Carin Gabarra, Women’s Soccer Stephen Cooksey, Men’s Indoor Track & Field Cindy Timchal, Women’s Lacrosse Mike Hughes, Women’s Rowing

ATHLETE of the Year (13) Annie-Norah Beveridge, Women’s Cross Country Elizabeth Hoerner, Women’s Soccer (goalkeeper) Jade Seabrook, Women’s Soccer (defense) Justin Vagts, Men’s Swimming Laura Gorinski, Women’s Swimming Weston Kennedy, Men’s Indoor Track & Field (track) Zack Duncavage, Men’s Indoor Track & Field (field) Emani Decquir, Women’s Tennis Jasmine DePompeo, Women’s Lacrosse (offense) Annie Foky, Women’s Lacrosse (defense) Chris House, Men’s Golf Maressa Guynn, Women’s Outdoor Track & Field (field) Women’s Varsity Eight, Women’s Rowing

Rookie of the Year (6) Alex Karika, Volleyball Chris Galvin, the Class of Derek Vogel, Men’s Soccer 2013 valedictorian, was a Jasmine DePompeo was named the Steve Schroeder, Men’s Cross Country three-sport Scholar-Athlete Tom Duvall, Men’s Swimming Women’s Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Year in 2012-13. Austin Batiste, Men’s Indoor Track & Field of the Year for third time and was the Jay Stell, Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Tournament MVP for the second time. Scholar-Athlete of the Year (9) Brigid Byrne, Women’s Cross Country and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Chris Galvin, Men’s Cross Country, Men’s Indoor Track & Field and Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Elizabeth Hoerner, Women’s Soccer Laura Gorinski, Women’s Swimming Chris House, Men’s Golf Jacqueline Penichet, Women’s Rowing

Tournament Most Valuable Player (2) Alix Membreno, Women’s Basketball Jasmine DePompeo, Women’s Lacrosse Navy women’s basketball won the 2013 Patriot League Tournament title, marking the third-consecutive postseason championship for the program.

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