The Warrior Dome Pool in the City of Worland

1993, this was the very first year that the Worland High School Swimming and Diving Men’s program won state as a team. It all started when the pool was first built in the late 1970’s. This is where most of the young children learned how to swim and or became competitive swimmers in middle and high school. Creating basic building blocks for essential survival skill, this was a key essential for most children; from learning butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, elementary backstroke, side stroke to our floats. From our old dome, we have created a new home. Our dome was a great impact on most children’s life including all ages, even the old. Waking up early in the morning to get to a hydro workout, to practicing two a days to get better, our dome created an environment that can never be replaced and sooner or later not a single person will even know it is gone. One of the very most unique pools in the country, the Worland Community Pool was created in a dome shape. This very organic and rusty shape was getting old indeed. Things needed to get replaced when there was no money in the budget it was a tragic ending to the pool that so much children and adults have loved over the years.

It created champions to future Olympic hopefuls. The Warrior Dome was top notch in the state even though so many swimmers hated it because of the ceiling and the triangular formations, when middle/high school competed in backstroke it was very hard to stay in line to avoid hitting the lane ropes. Not only were there Olympic hopefuls, but many swimmers have kept record to this day. Not just school records but Wyoming 3A state records. The following have the fastest time in the state for 3A high schools such as Guy Fulfer and Will Vietti. Both of t...

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...ay, it will truly be missed. In a year most kids will walk by asking their parents “what was their mommy/daddy?” will only cause confusion to the community. That empty space was something big, something that can never be replaced today. If I were that kids parent my exact words would be “That was a pool that created unique individuals, it was a place where you know your child could be trusted to learn great technique and survival needs. This is not like the pool we have today, in fact, this pool is what created my very own unique personality. Our Warrior Dome was the greatest pool in the City of Worland. This was where records were set and broken; this was a place where they sent some very special kids to continue their swimming and diving career to the next level. It is a great and charitable moment in my life and something that will never be forgotten in my eyes.”