Education Round-Up
Olympic ace opens £6.6 million sports facility at St Albans School
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uncan Goodhew, the former Olympic swimming gold medallist, formally opened the new £6.6 million sports centre at St Albans School in the presence of the Headmaster, Andrew Grant, and a host of dignitaries including The Mayor of St Albans and the Vice Chancellor of Hertfordshire University.
The new development, designed by the late David Morgan, a former pupil of St Albans School, includes a 25-metre, six-lane swimming
pool, a fitness and weights suite and a sports hall with four international standard badminton courts and basketball hoops. The complex also includes a mirrored dance studio, a climbing wall and a suite of technical and teaching areas. Speaking at the opening, Headmaster Andrew Grant described the centre as the largest and most ambitious building ever constructed in the school’s one-thousand-and-sixty-four-year history: “This wonderful new facility will not only hugely
enhance and enrich the opportunities for sport and physical fitness of our own students, but the pool is already in use by local clubs and children from local primary schools from dawn until well after dusk and others are beating a path to our door to use (the facilities).
“There has been much speculation as to how the legacy of London 2012 is to be secured and I am confident that with this magnificent new building we can make our own small contribution towards that.”
The building work on the project was completed on time and on budget by the SDC Construction Group, based in Bedford.
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