Orange Coast College leaders dedicate athletics, kinesiology complex built during pandemic
Orange Coast College leaders Tuesday dedicated its new Kinesiology and Athletics facility, which was built during the pandemic but has only recently begun to get some serious use since in-person instruction resumed earlier this spring.
Crews broke ground on the complex in 2019 as part of a series of construction and renovation projects envisioned in a 2020 Facilities Master plan approved by the Coast Community College District in 2015.
The 88,000-square-foot aquatics center includes a 65-meter competition swimming pool and a 25-meter adaptive pool designed to encourage adults with disabilities and/or chronic illness to maintain physical activity, exercise and sport.
New locker rooms and equipment management space, spaces for cardio, aerobics and athletic training and new offices for swim coaches and kinesiology instructors have been added, while concrete bleachers capable of seating up to 450 and a new shade structure will accommodate swim meets and water polo matches.
The $36-million project was funded with proceeds from Measure M, a $698-million bond measure passed by Coast Community College District voters in 2012 to help modernize educational facilities throughout the district.
It is one of several new building projects to be completed on the Costa Mesa campus. A new student union was dedicated last month, adding to a new Language Arts and Social Sciences building opened in October and a Professional Mariner Training Center at OCC’s waterfront campus in Newport Beach opened in September.
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