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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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