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Northern California Lifeguard Games
For Immediate Release
on Friday, August 4, 2006
by James Wheeler


On July 30th the City of Oakland sent three teams to compete in the Northern California Lifeguard Games. There were 35 competing teams at the event where the competition was fierce. The Office of Parks and Recreation had a day to be proud of and showed the rest of the Bay Area that there is pride and talent at the Oakland Pools.

Parks and Recreation's team #2 finished 3rd overall! The Spinal Injury Management teams had the only perfect scores of the day and finished 1st (Jason Hickman and Vanessa Lee) and 2nd (Brian Tang and Helen Tuman) in that event. Rookie Lifeguard Joi Glass finished 3rd in the Submerged Victim Rescue and placed third overall in the Iron Woman Points.

The highlight of the Day was Lifeguard Brian Tang taking 1st place in the Active Victim Rescues and winning the Iron Guard award as the highest point scoring male in the entire competition.

Team #1:
Caitlin Morse, Vanessa Lee, Jason Hickman and Ben Banash

Team #2:
Jestynn Tatum, Helen Tuman, Brian Tang and John Tornatore-Pili

Team #3:
Joi Glass, Rochelle Smith, Jonathon Ham and Armando Nikzad

Alternates: Kayla Rockwell and Hao Chen
Coaches: Kenan Delgado, William Davis, Jaime Takatsu and Jim Wheeler

City of Oakland
Office of Parks and Recreation

250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 3330
Oakland, California 94612
(510) 238-PARK
(510) 238-2397 Fax





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