Oxy Aquatic Center

The Oxy Aquatic Center located in the Kiernan Recreation Center is a 25-yard pool, which holds 236,500 gallons of water, and is the home to the Niagara University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams.

The Oxy was originally built in the summer of 1988. It officially opened its doors for competitors in the fall of 1988 and built to accommodate competitive swimming and diving in scholastic and collegiate categories.

The Pool
The pool has a moveable bulkhead and a diving well with regulation one- and three-meter diving boards. The Oxy is 14 feet deep and 12 ½ yards wide, providing six-foot lanes. The pool has “rim-flow” gutters, which drastically reduce turbulence.

Timing, Judging and Scoreboard
An electronic timing system determines elapsed time, order of finish and lap splits for each lane to .001 second, which is transmitted to a large display scoreboard. Judges’ stations at the diving pool also compute and transmit scoring to the display.