Pool problems pester polo

Water polo forced to play lone home game at SMC, practice in backup pool

ALI BASH Reporter @roundupnews

When classroom equipment is not functioning properly, it can be difficult to teach the course. The same can be appiled to athletics when a team does not have the resources necessary to go on with their season.

The main pool at the Steven E. Schofield Aquatic Center is currently going under maintenance and different programs have been affected by this situation.

“It affects our masters, it also affects our lap swimmers, our kinesiology classes, ENCORE, enterprise which is our community services so it is much deeper than just one program being affected,” pool manager Deborah Hefter said.

Last semester, there was no swim meet at Pierce due to the same issue.

Hefter said the pools are working all day which leads them to have these problems.

working. They both run on two different systems,” Hefter said.

The water polo game against the Santa Monica College Corsairs had to be moved to Santa Monica because there was no water.

Hefter said that the interim president and vice presidents have been helpful with this issue.

“He has been very active and our vice presidents have been very helpful and getting everything done in a quicker process. Usually it takes time to get things here and get approvals for a lot of pieces with this pool. They have given me verbal permissions so it makes things go quicker,” Hefter said.

Head coach Judi Terhar said this is not the first time they have had this problem.

“The same thing happened last year with the pool but it was a different issue. This time I have been given a few different dates, all the way from soon until the end of the semester,” Terhar said. “We are going with what we have, so this is our option and we are using it.” eligibility and with the conference itself,” Weitzel said. “He's really been an asset for me in that regard, just helping me through all this stuff and he's an amazing man.”

White said he has enjoyed working with Weitzel and is looking forward to this season.

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