Swimmer at the pool's edge looking toward the mountains at sunset

Programs & Partnerships

More Than Just a Place to Swim.

The Colorado Aquatic Center is being planned to support a broad range of aquatic activities, from water safety and competitive sports to rehabilitation, community programming, and specialized public-safety training.

The possibilities extend beyond any single program or organization. Whether you’re learning to swim, staying active, or participating in organized aquatic programs, you won’t need to belong to a swim team or club to use the center. Membership and daily drop-in options are planned.

The Possibilities

Aquatics Can Impact Lives
at Every Stage.

From a child's first safe experience in the water to competition, fitness, rehabilitation and lifelong recreation, aquatic space can create opportunities that reach far beyond the lanes.

Children smiling at the pool edge during a swim lesson

Learn & Be Safe

Swimming skills and water-safety education can build confidence, reduce risk and give children and adults the tools to be safer around water.

Learn-to-SwimWater SafetyLifeguard TrainingCPR & Emergency Skills

Swimmers racing freestyle across lanes during a competition

Train & Compete

Greater aquatic capacity can give athletes, clubs and teams more room to train, develop, compete and pursue their goals.

Competitive SwimmingWater PoloMasters SwimmingRegional Training & Events

Group of adults of all ages laughing and splashing together in an indoor pool

Move & Thrive

Aquatics can support fitness, mobility, rehabilitation and lifelong wellness for people across ages and abilities.

Aquatic FitnessAdaptive AquaticsRehabilitation & RecoverySenior Aquatics

Scuba diver, platform diver, and water polo players in an indoor pool

Connect & Serve

Shared aquatic space can bring together schools, clubs, community organizations, families and specialized users around opportunities that are difficult to create alone.

Schools & EducationCommunity OrganizationsSpecialty AquaticsPartnerships

Reference photography illustrates the types of aquatic opportunities and community uses envisioned. It does not represent confirmed Colorado Aquatic Center programs, tenants or operators.

Public Safety

Public Safety & Specialized Training

The Colorado Aquatic Center is a planned facility. Its proposed deep-water capabilities could support specialized training, including water rescue, recovery, and emergency-response preparation. Colorado Aquatics Foundation has held discussions with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and South Metro Fire Rescue about potential training applications at the facility.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Discussions have included potential training applications connected to the agency's work on Colorado's waters.

South Metro Fire Rescue

Discussions have included potential water rescue, recovery and emergency-response training applications.

These conversations are part of our effort to develop an aquatic center that serves swimmers and families as well as the agencies that protect our communities.

No formal partnership, tenancy, operator role, funding, or endorsement is implied by either organization.

Community

Community & Aquatic Organizations

A facility of this size can make room for many kinds of aquatic activity at once. As the project develops, the Foundation expects to explore potential collaboration with a range of community and aquatic organizations, including:

Schools and swim clubs

Masters swimming

Water polo and artistic swimming

Adaptive aquatic programs

Healthcare and rehabilitation providers

Community organizations and specialty training programs

These are potential opportunities under exploration, not confirmed commitments. No organizations, agreements, schedules or program offerings have been finalized.