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In today's Nationals preliminary heats, Steven Stumph posted another Olympic Trial cut in his 200 IM swimming a 2:05.48. Way to go Steven!
It was just announced that Orinda Aquatics earned Level 4, the highest level of achievement, in USA Swimming's Club Recognition Program. OA is only the 10th team in the Western Zone to achieve this status. The program recognizes clubs which are strong, stable, financially sound and athletically productive organizations. These are the areas deemed critical to USA Swimming for long term club success.
Ariel Thomas has just returned from the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs where she attended the National Pentathlon Development Camp and earned a 5th place finish in the Youth National Championships. She effectively competed in swimming, running, horse jumping, fencing and shooting. During the 5 days at the camp, much of her time was focused on the technical aspects of the fencing and shooting events.
On June 1, 201, Ronnie and Donnie presented "Developing Athletes Character on Your Swim Team" USA Swimming/ASCA 's On-Line Coaches Clinics. Date Topic Speaker Wednesday June 1 Developing Athletes Character on Your Swim Team Don and Ron will discuss concepts that help build a foundation of mutual respect and unconditional team commitment. Some of the concepts discussed will include emphasizing leadership over times, humility over ego, self-confidence over self-doubt, and the team over the individual. They will give examples of how they integrate academic excellence, parent appreciation, and dealing with...
Megan had a great swim in the 400m Free dropping sixteen seconds to go 5:39 and qualify and finish 4th! On Saturday Megan had a great 100 Free swim (see below). 4 Liang, Megan K 15 OAPB-PC-USA 5:41.98 5:39.91 FINALS 36.58 1:18.57 (41.99) 2:02.19 (43.62) 2:46.03 (43.84) 3:29.51 (43.48) 4:13.26 (43.75) 4:56.87 (43.61) 5:39.91 (43.04) 100 Back 7 Liang, Megan K 15 OAPB-PC-USA 1:29.67 1:30.29 43.03 1:30.29 (47.26) Megan drops 2 seconds in 100 Free to qualify 5th! 5 Liang, Megan K 15 OAPB-PC-USA 1:17.09 1:14.93 q 36.70 1:14.93 (38.23)
http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=1&itemid=3239&mid=8712 CP GIVES BACK: CALIFORNIA CLUB RAISES MONEY FOR SWIMMERS IN SWAZILAND Mike Watkins/Correspondent Swaziland, an African country with a population of just over 1.1 million, is thousands of miles away from California. But as far as Orinda Aquatics (Moraga, Calif.) Head Coach Don Heidary is concerned, the small nation, which is about the size of New Jersey, is a part of his swimming community. “I had virtually no knowledge of Africa beyond what one would read in the newspaper or see on television,” Heidary said. “The country can be...
Ward breaks 20-year-oid UCSB swim record LONG BEACH – Freshmen Andrea Ward and Sophia Yamauchi set school records in the 500 freestyle and 200 individual medley, respectively, on Thursday at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving Championships, which are being held at Belmont Plaza. Andrea Ward opened Thursday’s finals by winning the first individual event of the meet – the 500 freestyle – and posted a new UCSB record in the process. Her time of 4:48.60 is a NCAA ‘B’ qualifying time and breaks a 20-year old school...
The 2011 Club Excellence results were recently announced by USA Swimming. Orinda Aquatics is a Silver Medal Club and one of the top teams in the country for a team of our size. We were 45th in the nation (of 2,800 teams+). http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewMiscArticle.aspx?TabId=1706&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&mid=1071&ItemId=5212
