The Morrisville Aquatics & Fitness Center (MAFC) pool is now open and boy did they get almost everything right. Unlike other recently built area pools, I’m looking at you NW Cary YMCA, this pool appears to have been built by a group that actually knows something about swimming. Here are some of the highlights:

• Continuous gutters
• 8 ft deep end
• Permanent starting blocks
• No wall water return jets
• Separate leisure / kids pool areas
• Lap swim friendly water temperature
• Retractable roof to allow fresh air / sunlight in

The only minor quibbles I have are the pool is only 6 lanes and the lane lines look like they use 4″ floats. Definitely where the money ran out. But other than that it’s a fantastic pool. I love the almost all glass structure with retractable roof segments. It’s like swimming outdoors year round only with better temperature regulation.

This is truly the pool Cary should have built (well, maybe 8 lanes with a little more deck space for meets). Thankfully Morrisville is surrounded by Cary and they offer really low per swim rates even for non-residents. So thank you Morrisville. You’re a relatively small town yet you were able to do what the bigger and better financed Cary couldn’t.