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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I missed this question.  It's a great question, really.  You'll see a variety of pools at colleges.  Many, even in D1, have just 25-yard pools and, yes, converting to meters would be quite expensive and colleges are not going to be all that inclined to spend that money.  That said, many schools have larger pools with movable bulkheads and can do LCM, SCM, and SCY.  Most D1 schools are like that and even many, though I doubt most, D3 schools have the larger pools.

College is a lot like high school. The dual and triple dual-meets are in a sense exhibition meets.  What matters in college are the conference championship meets and the NCAAs. These tend to get held at the nicer more convertible pools that are capable of handling SCM.  A shift to 25m would formally limit championships to those larger pools.

Right now the NCAA has a committee that's investigating the issue.  My gut instinct on this is that there's not enough reason to switch from SCY to SCM. Certainly, if the NCAA were so foolish as to force all schools to convert to 25m then I think we'd lose a bunch of college swim programs.  If there is switch then I think it would be just for championships and schools that train in 25y would suffer the disadvantage of training at SCY but having championships at 25m.[/quote]

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