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  • Who Needs a Pool?
  • FAQs
  • Calendar of Events
  • How You Can Help
  • In the News
  • Facilities
  • In Memoriam

An Indoor Aquatics Center for Whom?

Below are some of the MHK community organizations who could benefit from an Indoor Aquatics Center, promoting safety, health and wellness.  Click on their link to learn more about them.

USD 383 Swim and Dive Team

Think is how well these league champions would do if they could practice in a pool where they could host meets & compete in diving!

USD 383 Swimming

MHK Parks & Rec Swim Classes

In MHK, parents report that the summer lessons fill up before their kids can enroll. Save a life with year-round pool access!

Parks & Rec Swim Classes

Special Olympics Swimming

MHK Fire Dept Water Rescue

Partnering with KS Special Olympics, MHK Parks and Rec offers summer adaptive swim lessons for youth with special needs.

Special Olympics Swimming

MHK Fire Dept Water Rescue

MHK Fire Dept Water Rescue

As a community with multiple large bodies of water, swift water rescue teams need year-round training spaces to maintain readiness.

Manhattan Fire Dept

Senior Aquatic Fitness

Water aerobics and water walking are critical ways to stay active without high impact across our lives. 

MHK Parks & Rec Aquatics Exercise

Manhattan Marlins Swim Club

Practicing at a private gym with only 4 lanes, this team can't grow to increase access to competitive youth swimming.

Manhattan Marlins

KSU Swim & Dive Club

Even though the K-State natatorium has closed, this resilient club finds ways to practice and compete against other universities!

KSU Swim & Dive Club Facebook

Triathletes of all Ages

MHK is home to a thriving triathlete community, with clubs and events for all ages who enjoy a little swim with their running and biking.

MHK's Just Tri It Event

Masters Competitive Swimmers

Riley County Community Emergency Response Team

Did you know MHK is home to nationally-ranked adult swimmers who would love a place to practice together?

Learn about Masters Swimming

Riley County Community Emergency Response Team

Riley County Community Emergency Response Team

Riley County Community Emergency Response Team

When flash floods strike, our emergency responders want to be trained and ready.

Riley County CERT

Who else could benefit from an indoor pool?

Early Childhood Development Organizations

Researchers find that kids who learn to swim at an early age reach developmental milestones more quickly than their peers who don't swim. Researchers hypothesize this is because water allows movement in all directions, which is not possible on land!

Find out more benefits of early swimming

Kansas State University Recreational Services

Since the natatoriums closure, K-State Students no longer have a place to access swimming for health, safety or recreation!

K-State Rec Services

Autism Spectrum Disorder Therapy

Swimming offers unique benefits to youth with autism. Learn more at the Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation:

ASFD website for aquatic therapy

Physical Therapy

Critical to community health and wellness are the multiple world class Physical Therapy organizations in MHK whose patients (potentially any one of us) would have greater access to aquatic therapy. and rehabilitation at an Indoor Aquatics Center.  

American Physical Therapy Association

You!

With so many ways to engage, every person is sure to find a way that water will benefit them!

Contact us if you have a group that could benefit

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