OMPA 2025 Details

Let's get excited for OMPA! We have 49 swimmers at the Championship Meet. Read on for everything that you need to know to be at your race on time and have an amazing weekend!

Location: Soda Aquatic Center - 300 Moraga Rd, Moraga, CA 94556

Thursday Warm Up:

Our Thursday Warm Up will take place a SODA center. This is a great opportunity for the swimmers to get familiar with the blocks and the pool. Traditionally we carpool over from Miramonte, blasting our horns and showing Orca spirit!

  • 11:00 AM Meet at Miramonte Pool
  • 11:15 AM Depart Miramonte for SODA Center
  • 11:45 AM - 12:25 PM Warm up in Competition Pool

Additional Info:

  • OMPA programs will be available to purchase for $25
    • there may be limited supplies on Thursday - Venmo or Cash
    • there will not be a digital program
  • Pre-ordered OMSC OMPA shirts will be available for collection

Volunteers:

Please make sure to make your volunteer shift. This is an amazing event and cannot operate without the generosity of the parents and families in giving their time to make it a success. If you are working Ribbons on Saturday an Sunday and you have a swimmer in the finals or in relays - ABSOLUTELY step out and watch their race, but please return right after - we need to make sure to have all the ribbons done so that teams can distribute them on Sunday eventing.

Team Areas, Parking, Food and Vendor details:

Team Area and Bleecher Location:

Each team is allocated a specific location for their team tents and an area of the bleachers. Please see these maps for where OMSC is based for the weekend.

We will have tents and table set up in our team space. Please check out the food sign up and contribute by bringing some food and drinks to keep our swimmers full of energy for their races. Sign up here. Please remember we are on a high school campus, there is a zero alcohol policy.

Our bleacher space is at the end of Lane 1.

Parking/Shuttle:

Parking in any Campo High School parking lot as well as the neighborhood streets is parking pass only. Please be respectful of the neighboorhood and people that live in the Campolindo area. Please do not block driveways, mailboxes, or fire hydrants. Illegally parked cars will be towed. There is no parking in the neighborhood across the street from Campolindo High School.

Families should use the drop-off location at Compolindo High School to unload, then find parking and use the shuttle to return to Soda Center.

There will be one free shuttle bus that will run continuously from the St. Mary's Rheem Campus parking lot at 380 Moraga Road (next to Round Table Pizza and 24 Hour Fitness) to Campolindo High School (in front of tennis courts) on Saturday and Sunday from 7:00am to 6:00pm.

Please park only in marked spaces, parking in the fire lanes or other "No Parking" areas will make it impossible for the shuttle to get through the lot. 

The shuttle bus will display an "OMPA" sign in its front window. Shuttles stops will be marked with "OMPA Shuttle Stop" signs. 

Food and Vendors:

On Satuday and Sunday there will be many food trucks and vendors at Soda Center.

Photography: KLC fotos will be on site all weekend with a booth under the scoreboard. You can register to have photos taken of your swimmer in their event of for potraits to be taken. You can register here.

The food trucks onsite will be include:

Los Aguilares, Fouth Bore / Foge Pizza, Travelin Tom Coffee, Backyard BBQ, Kona Ice, Wetzels Pretzels, Smoothie Patrol, Loard's Ice Cream, and one of our OMSC Sponsors:

There will also be Mystifying Touch, Elsmore Swim, Jolyn, and jewelry vendors on site during the meet. 

Competition Details:

There will be dedicated warm up times before prelims and finals. See below for our warm up times each day, afternoon warmups for swimmers making finals will be shared on the day. 

  • Clerk-of-the-course - all swimmers must report to the clerk-of-the-course prior to their event or they will be scratched.
  • Stay in the team area or the team bleacher space so that our coaches can find you
  • Do not leave after the morning session without checking in with a coach
    • They will let you know if you have made an A or B final or relay
    • Relay teams will be decided after prelims each day so that the morning swims can be taken into consideration
  • Dive Pool access:
    • The Dive Pool is available for additional warm up closer to your race (not for play)
    • Only available when the competition pool is in use
    • May not be used without lifeguards present
    • Swimmers must enter the dive pool at the specified points of entry
    • Swimmers must do a three point entry - NO DIVING
    • The dive pool is for warm-up and cool-down only
  • Have fun and do your best - you all have worked incredibly hard this summer and improved so much. Enjoy this last meet of the season, you are ready! 

Friday Events:

Friday is focused on the 15-18 100 Freestyle and all age group Individual Medley events. Come cheer on your teammates and wear purple!

  • Arrival Time: Be at the team bleachers at 3:45 pm
  • Warm Up: 4:05 pm to 4:25 pm - Lanes 10 and 11
  • All events are timed finals
  • Please use the team bleachers as "home base" for Friday
  • Permits are not needed for the Campolindo parking lots, feel free to park there!

Saturday Events:

Saturday is focused on freestyle and breaststroke as well as the free relay.

  • Arrival Time: Be in the team tent area at 8:00 am
  • Warm Up: 8:25 am to 8:45 am lanes 9, 10, and 11
  • Morning events will be prelims for Freestyle then Breaststroke
  • Finals and Relays will be in the afternoon
    • Swimmers who finish 11-20 in their event will swim in the "B" final
    • Swimmers who finish 1-10 in their event will swim in the "A" final
    • Swimmers finishing 21st and 22nd in their event will be alternates, and should be ready if somone does not show!
    • Relays will follow individual event finals
  • OMSC Freestyle Relays:
    • Our freestyle relays will be decided after prelims on Saturday
    • Do not leave until you have spoken with a coach
    • OMSC will have relays in the following groups:
      • 6 and under girls
      • 6 and under boys
      • 7-8 girls
      • 9-10 girls
      • 9-10 boys
      • 11-12 boys
      • 15-18 girls

Sunday Events:

Sunday is focused on backstroke and butterfly as well as the medley relay.

  • Arrival Time: Be in the team tent area at 7:25 am
  • Warm Up: 7:45 am to 8:05 am lanes 9, 10, and 11
  • Morning events will be prelims for Backstroke then Butterfly
  • Finals and Relays will be in the afternoon
    • Swimmers who finish 11-20 in their event will swim in the "B" final
    • Swimmers who finish 1-10 in their event will swim in the "A" final
    • Swimmers finishing 21st and 22nd in their event will be alternates, and should be ready if somone does not show!
    • Relays will follow individual event finals
  • OMSC Medley Relays:
    • Our medley relays will be decided after prelims on Sunday
    • Do not leave until you have spoken with a coach
    • OMSC will have relays in the following groups:
      • 6 and under girls
      • 7-8 girls
      • 9-10 girls
      • 9-10 boys
      • 11-12 boys
      • 15-18 girls

Post OMPA celebration - there will be a team celebration post OMPA where have a chance to celebrate all the hard work over the season and the weekend and hand out any ribbons or medals. Details in the e-mail.