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2009-10 Men's Swimming/Diving Roster

Darren Pagan

  • Position IM/Backstroke
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Oakland, Calif.
  • Previous School Bishop O'Dowd

Biography

2008-09: Honored with the Herbert E. Vollmer Award, given to the Most Outstanding Varsity Swimmer or Diver ...  also named team’s Most Valuable Swimmer ... school record holder in the 200 IM (1:47.71) ... finished fourth at EISLs in the 200 IM, in an NCAA ?B’ cut qualifying time... EISL point scorer in 200 free (seventh ? 1:39.84), 200 back (11th - 1:47.93), the 200 medley relay (sixth), the 200 free relay (fourth), the 400 free relay (fifth), and the 800 free relay (fifth) ... part of the school-record holding 200 medley relay team (1:30.40) ... part of the school-record holding 200 free relay squad (1:20.60).

At Bishop O’Dowd High: Four swimming letters ... captain as a senior ... four-year all-league swimmer ... Dual League record-holder in 100 butterfly and 200 IM ... North Coast Section champion in the 100 free, runner-up in the 200 IM ... Junior National qualifier ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... California Scholarship Federation Life Member.

Outside Experience: Swims for Thunderbolt Aquatics.

Personal: Mechanical engineering major in Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science ... father, Gregory, competed in track for UC Berkeley in the late 1960s.

Historical Player Information

  • 2006-07First Year

    Backstroke
  • 2007-08Sophomore

    Backstroke
  • 2008-09Junior

    Backstroke
  • 2009-10Senior

    IM/Backstroke