Lamorinda Weekly is a weekly community newspaper for Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda in California USA. 26,600 printed copies delivered to 23,000 houses or 65,000 people.
Lamorinda Weekly is a weekly community newspaper for Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda in California USA. 26,600 printed copies delivered to 23,000 houses or 65,000 people.
Davis Diaz on the way to Vanderbilt or the Major Leagues
By Jon Kingdon
Davis Diaz in 2018 Photo Gint Federas A few years ago, there was a baseball movie starring Kevin Costner called For the Love of the Game. It s a title that could also be applied to recent Acalanes graduate Davis Diaz and his relationship to baseball. Even though Diaz is only 18, it could not be called a short-term relationship. I started playing T-ball at the age of 3, though my parents had to lie about my age, Diaz said. I went on to play with a Pleasant Hill team called the Hawks and then with the Lamorinda Travel team and I grew up with them along with playing at Acalanes.
Local water polo player takes the Olympic world stage
By Jon Kingdon
Goalie Drew Holland Photo provided When Drew Holland made this year s United States Olympic Water Polo team as their goalie, he continued a much venerated tradition for Miramonte High School. Following in the footsteps of Drew McDonald, Rick McNair, Kirk Everest (Cal s Water Polo coach), John Stenson, Heather Petri and Peter Schnugg, Holland became the seventh Miramonte graduate to be a member of the United States water polo team at the Olympics. I got a nice congratulatory text from Kirk Everest?that was along those lines of carrying on the tradition and I m happy to be able to do so, Holland said. When I was young, I remember former players coming back to Miramonte and helping Coach James Lathrop with the team and I m looking forward to helping with the next wave of Miramonte players, so it all comes full circle.
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