UChicago swimming pool hours, Ratner and Myers-McLoraine

Myers-McLoraine is the only pool on the athletics site, inside Ratner at the corner of 55th and Ellis. Lap swim runs three times a day on weekdays and twice on weekends. Registered students who pay the Student Services Fee are members automatically, so there's nothing to sign up for.

Lap swim hours

These are the hours for the first week of autumn quarter, September 28 to October 4, 2026. That was the live week on the athletics sheet when I checked.

From the Myers-McLoraine Pool schedule that UChicago Athletics links from its pool page, checked September 29, 2026. The sheet changes every week. The schedule line is (773) 702-3873.

Evenings have fewer open lanes because teams book them. That week, outside teams had all ten competition lanes and the dive well from 7 to 9 pm on Monday and Wednesday, and from 6:45 pm on Friday. Club water polo had the dive well and three deep lanes from 7 to 9 pm on Tuesday and Thursday. A UCLS competition had the dive well and lanes 3 to 10 from 6 to 6:30 pm on Wednesday. Masters swimming shares lanes 6 to 10 from noon to 1 on weekdays and from 6 to 7 pm on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Nothing else was listed for the weekday 7 am block.

Autumn 2026 closings

The pool closes on these dates for varsity meets and Thanksgiving, per the closings list on the pool page. Saturday, October 17 is also the Saturday of Family Weekend.

Athletics posts closings on its pool page.

Who can swim

Every registered UChicago student, undergrad or grad, who pays the Student Services Fee gets a membership turned on at the start of each quarter. You don't buy anything.

Everyone else buys a membership online through the membership portal. The Ratner desk no longer sells them. A year of the tier that includes Ratner costs $445 for faculty and staff, $545 for alumni and $545 for community members. Community members can only come in Monday to Friday 8 am to 3 pm and any time on weekends. Postdocs and medical residents pay $204. The pricing sheet has the full list.

Guests have to come with a member, and a member can bring up to four per visit. Guest passes are sold in the same portal. Each guest shows proof of age and signs a waiver at the door. Children under 13 can only swim during Family Swim.

What to bring, and the rules

Bring a lock and a towel. There are day lockers, but you supply the lock and clear the locker out before closing. The pool rules ask for a clean swimsuit, so no gym shorts, and no street shoes or bags on the deck. The water goes from four feet in the shallow end to 13.5 feet in the diving well. The two one-meter boards open during Family Swim.

It's a 50-meter pool with a movable bulkhead, and athletics sets it up either way, with up to 20 lanes across the 25-yard width or nine long-course lanes. The varsity swimming and diving teams are based here too, so the pool closes for their meets.

Pool, the app

If you searched for “UChicago pool” and landed here, Pool is also the name of a food deals app for UChicago students. It has nothing to do with the swimming pool. This quarter it has 2-for-1 12 oz açaí bowls at Deep Purpl (from October 8) and 2-for-1 subs at Subway 53rd Street, plus deals at 12 more Hyde Park restaurants (one from September 29, one from September 30, four from October 1 and one from October 8), live from Monday, September 28.