OMPA Championship Swim Meet Kicks Off Friday

The 55th Orinda Moraga Pool Association championship meet runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Soda Aquatic Center at Campolindo High School. The meet features 1,805 swimmers from the Lamorinda area swimming in 84 events spread over the three days. Swimmers range in age from 4-year-olds just starting the sport to 18-year-olds closing out their recreational swimming career. The meet is the culmination of the recreational swimming season in Lamorinda.

Friday night's events kick off at 5 p.m. with the girls 7-8 Individual Medley and ends about 7:30 p.m. with the boys 15-18 Individual Medley. 

Saturday focuses on freestyle, breaststroke and the medley relay. Saturday starts at 9 a.m. for preliminaries of freestyle; breaststroke preliminaries start just after noon. Finals for freestyle should kick off at 3:30 p.m. and breaststroke finals are scheduled to start at 4:15 p.m. The medley relays are scheduled for a 5:15 p.m. start.

Sunday's races feature backstroke and butterfly as well as the always-exciting freestyle relays. Preliminaries for backstroke start at 9 a.m. Finals are scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. Butterfly preliminaries should start at 11:45 a.m., with finals scheduled for just after 3 p.m. The meet ends with freestyle relays, scheduled to start 4 p.m. 

Expect to see Rockwellian moments a-plenty from the littlest butterfly swimmers trying their hardest to get to the other side of the pool to NCAA athletes swimming a swan song with their recreational swim teammates.

Swims to anticipate: a battle for 9-10 boys high point between Garrett Dunn of Orinda Country Club, Mark McCurdy of Campolindo Cabana Club and Narayan Sharma of Sleepy Hollow Swim and Tennis Club. An 11-12 boys high point is also anticipated to be tight between Stephen Schmidt of OCC, Tyler Abramson of OCC and Scott Wu of Meadow Swim and Tennis Club. Watch the 15-18 boys battle it out, with Nick Deaver of Meadow and Charlie Wiser of OCC both in strong contention for high point.

Also:

• Girls 6 and under Lindsey Lucas, Sleepy Hollow and Lindsey French, Meadow
• Girls 7-8 Maya Supran, Park and Emmie Appl, Park
• Girls 9-10 Megan Colpo, MVP, Sophia Kosturs, OCC, and Ashleen O’Brien, CCC
• Girls 13-14 Emily Byrne, Meadow, and Kristen Hong, Meadow
• Girls 15-18 Allison Stevens, MCC, Dana Holt, MCC, Sierra Robbins, Meadow, Brooke Woodward, OCC, and Meredith White, Sleepy Hollow

Moraga Rotary offers a comprehensive menu with breakfast and lunch items. Local vendors also offer ice cream, shaved ice and swim gear.