| Quick Facts |
| Year Opened: 1969 |
| Sports: Swimming & Diving |
The Northeastern women's swimming and diving team has a premier facility for its home meets and practices - the Barletta Natatorium, located inside the Cabot Center. Dedicated on Jan. 14, 1969, the pool facility honors the memory of three Barletta family members, pioneers in local heavy construction. Vincenzo Barletta's company was later passed to his sons Nicola (NU '36) and Frederick. The Barletta Natatorium features a seating gallery that can accommodate over 500 fans.
Cabot Center is full of amenities for Husky swimmers. It is the home to the Husky athletics department as well as a 2,300-square-foot weight room, racquetball courts, an indoor track, rowing tanks and a cardiovascular room. In 2001, Cabot underwent a major renovation that included the construction of the Shanahan Academic Center, which is the home to Student-Athlete Support Services offices, a computer lab, classroom, conference room and other places for student-athletes to study.
Sports history had already occurred at the corner of Forsyth Street and Huntington Avenue long before the Cabot Center opened there in 1954. The building, named for beneficiary Godfrey Lowell Cabot in 1957, sits on the former site of the Huntington Avenue Grounds, where the first World Series was played in 1903 between Boston and Pittsburgh. Just outside the Cabot Center is a statue of Cy Young that commemorates the inaugural Fall Classic.
DIRECTIONS TO BARLETTA NATATORIUM • MAP
From the West (Massachusetts Turnpike): Follow turnpike into tunnel and take Prudential exit. Proceed westbound on Huntington Avenue. Barletta is located approximately three tenths of a mile on left at intersection of Huntington and Forsyth Street.
From the South and West (128/95): Take 128/95 to Route 93. Take Mass. Ave exit and take right onto Mass. Ave. Follow Mass. Ave through seven set of lights until St. Botolph Street. Take left onto St. Botolph and follow to stop sign. Take right onto Gainsborough Street and then a left onto Huntington Avenue. Barletta is on the left at corner of Huntington Avenue and Forsyth Street.
From the North (93 & 95 across Tobin Bridge): Take exit 26 (Storrow Drive, NO BUSES...BUSES USE Route 93 directions above) and follow signs for Storrow Drive. Take Fenway exit off Storrow Drive and proceed straight off exit ramp (follow signs for Boylston Street Inbound, do not bear right) and continue through three sets of lights to Mass. Ave. Take right onto Mass. Ave. and proceed to Huntington Avenue (right after Symphony Hall). Take right onto Huntington and Barletta is two tenths of a mile ahead on the left at the corners of Huntington and Forsyth Street.
Public Transportation: Take the "E" car of the Green Line to Northeastern stop. Barletta is across Huntington Avenue from the stop.
