 Indiana Diving Academy
Facilities
The commitment to championship athletics at Indiana University includes providing Hoosier student-athletes with a quality sports complex. The year 1996 marked the beginning of a new era with the opening of the Counsilman-Billingsley Center in the Student Recreational Sports Center.
The SRSC, an 137,832 square-foot facility located on the corner of Law Lane and Union Street, includes the 44,651 square foot aquatics center used by Indiana's varsity swimming and diving programs.
The Counsilman Aquatics Center features an eight-lane Olympic-sized pool spanning 30,512 square feet with depth ranging from seven to eight feet to allow for greater speed.
 The Billingsley Diving Center, complete with one of the country's few indoor diving towers, features two one-meter and three-meter springboards as well as one-, three-, five-, seven- and 10-meter platforms.
The facility already has played host to the 1996 and 2001 NCAA Zone C Diving competition, the 1997 and 1999 Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships and Junior Nationals and 1998, 2001 and 2005 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center is located in the Student Recreational Sports Complex (SRSC) on Law Lane between Jordan Avenue and Union Street. Click here for an interactive map.
*The Indoor Dryland Center (BDC)*
Seventy percent of all dives are learned in a controlled and monitored environment to insure that the correct skills are learned and demonstrated. Our Dryland Center has two trampolines and a dry board with a gym pit, all include a spotting rig and belts to better learn and understand the twisting and somersaulting aspects of diving. A spotting machine is located by our platform station and spring floor to train the diver's body and eyes to see everything during rotation.
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*Royer Pool (HPER)*
Programs around the world know and pass on to young swimmers and divers stories about the team that could have defeated the world if put on the international stage. Royer Pool, with its half tower set (1M and 5M), two 1M and two 3M springboards, was home to the "Golden Team" of the golden era of Aquatics during the 1970's. The Hoosiers, under the teachings of Doc Counsilman and Hobie Billingsley, captured six consecutive NCAA Championships, countless Olympic Gold medals and many other awards. What better way to inspire the youth, than to show them the site where history was made and modern diving and swimming was born.
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*The Outdoor Dryland Center (IUOP)*
Just like the dryland center at the BDC, we have two trampolines, both equipped with spotting rigs with belts. There is also a dryland board and a gym pit, both on level platforms. Whether you are indoors or outside, we can help you better your skills to become the diver you dream of.
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*Workout Facility*
In the same building as the Billingsley Diving Center, the Student Recreations Sports Complex offers us an advanced weight-room that is very suitable for young divers.
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A Closer Look at the Indoor Pool |
A Closer Look at the Outdoor Pool |
Our Bubbler system helps reduce pain of smacks and eases the fear of conquering new dives...check it out in action!
Outdoor Pool
With the warmest climate in the Big Ten Conference, Indiana also utilizes its outdoor pool for training purposes. It features a 10-lane, 50-meter pool along with a separate diving well. |
Outdoor Diving Well
The Hoosiers' outdoor diving facility features two three-meter boards, one-, three-, five-, seven-and-a-half and 10-meter platforms and a hot tub. |
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Camp House
 Our Camp House provides safe and secure lodging for well over 100 campers !! The 28,000 sq. ft. house includes a full, industrial kitchen where our professional cook , Dale, is able to feed all those hungry divers. It also includes a pool table, basketball goal, volleyball net, outside grill, tv's, temp controlled rooms that are far more spacious than the dorms, several lounge rooms, guys/girls floors, and much more !! We've enjoyed a long relationship with the owners, IU Christian Student Fellowship, and we've found the campers like it a lot more than the dorms - where most camps house their campers.
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