Morgan Hill will be Swim Central this weekend as the Coast
Valley Athletic League swimming championships come to the new
Aquatics Center Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Morgan Hill will be Swim Central this weekend as the Coast Valley Athletic League swimming championships come to the new Aquatics Center Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
A total of nine teams and about 800 swimmers are slated to compete in the massive finals, which features boys and girls ages 8-18 competing in a range of events.
Morgan Hill Makos organizer John Rick said the league finals were moved from Hartnell College in Salinas for obvious reasons.
“The thought behind bringing it here was it was held at Hartnell since I can remember and this is a newer, nicer facility,” Rick said. “And, everyone wanted to get a look at it.”
This is the first time the CVAL championships have been held in Morgan Hill, which also just landed the Far Western Championship meet in Spring 2005.
Along with the hometown Makos swim club, the rest of the CVAL teams scheduled to compete for the league title include the Gilroy Gators, the San Benito Sea Dragons, Barracuda Aquatics of the Monterey Peninsula, the Monterey Bay Swim Club, Salinas Valley Aquatics, the Cabrillo Threshers, Santa Cruz County Aquatics and Slug Aquatics.
Rick said the perennial league champion Threshers are again the favorites, while swimmers like Makos standout and Live Oak High grad David Dunn will also put on a show.
Dunn and his brother Thomas recently finished competing in the prestigious California-Nevada Sectionals in Clovis.
