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Fun facts about the competition pool

The Fitness and Recreation Center's new competition pool is more than one-sixth of the size of a regulation football field.

September 9, 2005
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The competition pool at BU’s Fitness and Recreation Center is more than one-sixth the size of a regulation football field. And with a water capacity of 720,000 gallons, it could fit 385,090 regulation basketballs.

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