Orinda Aquatics hosts the 2017 Pacific Swimming Junior Olympics

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Published July 12th, 2017

Orinda Aquatics hosts the 2017 Pacific Swimming Junior Olympics

By Karl Buscheck

Zach Le-Nguyen placed 3rd in the individual meadley Photo Gint Federas

Beginning on July 7, Orinda Aquatics

hosted the 2017 Pacific Swimming Junior

Olympics at the Soda Aquatic Center in

Moraga.

The meet, which featured approximately

1,000 swimmers, was the championship event

for the top athletes, aged 14 and under, from

across Northern California.

"We try to do a good job for the swimmers

and the parents and for the coaches," said Don

Heidary, coach and co-founder of Orinda

Aquatics. "So, it's an honor, but it's also a

great responsibility to present the best competitive

environment for the kids."

Orinda Aquatics has put on the meet,

which is awarded by a bidding committee, in

the past, and will host the Far Westerns, a fiveday

meet which will take place at the end of

July 2018.

Heidary credited the parent volunteers

who help the Orinda Aquatic coaches with organizing

and staffing the three-day meet for

making it a success.

"Our parent community does a great job

in trying to make the meet work, make it efficient

and make the accommodations as positive

as possible for the coaches," Heidary said.

"You can't run a meet like this without a

strong parent-support group," Heidary added.

"It's definitely not the coaches that do this, it's

the parents."



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