Mt. Edgecumbe High School Aquatic Center

DESCRIPTION

Mount Edgecumbe High School is a public boarding school located in Sitka, Alaska. The school’s student body is predominately from rural Alaska. The school’s function was to provide education opportunities to students from rural villages and isolated home school situations who are committed to higher education and seeking athletic opportunities beyond what they would otherwise receive. In order for the high school to obtain a pool, the State of Alaska solicited proposals for a Construction Manager / General Contractor (CM/GC.) The Mt. Edgecumbe Aquatics Center included a full-sized pool, storage space, climbing walls and a slide.

Not only do the student and the general public get to enjoy and benefit from this aquatic center, but also the local first responders. The Alaska State Trooper Academy is located in Sitka. In this intensive three-month training program Alaska State Trooper recruits learn to conduct rescues while battling possible hypothermia in cold waters which they can now do at the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Aquatics Center. Once the State Trooper recruits complete training they are stationed throughout the state, The United States Coast Guard personnel stationed in Sitka will also be a frequent user of the aquatics center to perform mock ocean rescues and HUET training. The aquatics center was designed to accommodate both of these special groups in addition to the students and community, with separate locker rooms, ceiling mounted pulley systems, a climbing wall and waterslide.