Fred Wales - Retired Head Coach

Coach Fred Wales  took over the team in August of 1978 after ten years of teaching swimming and coaching at James Denman Junior High. In 1977 he became head coach at Balboa High School in San Francisco where he took the last place Buccaneers to a third place finish, led the team to an 11-1 record in 1978, and challenged his alma mater Lowell for the AAA City Championship. When he joined the DCD staff as head coach he began his drive to bring the local recreation team to prominence in the world of age group swimming.  By 1981 they had won team trophies in open competition from Reno, Monterey, Vallejo, Benicia, Indian Valley, to the Punahou Invitational in Honolulu, Hawaii. They returned to Hawaii in 1985 and won the Kamehameha Meet, with 3 swimmers pictured in the Honolulu Star as high point winners. In his 30 years with the Dolphins he has produced age group and high school champions who have broken team, high school, Pacific Swimming, and United States Swimming National records. DCD has placed swimmers on Zone 1-North and Pacific Swimming All-Star teams since 1979. He has coached High School and NCAA division 1 All-Americans as well as Olympic Trials participants. His swimmers have gone on to win coaching honors from CCS Honor Coach to NCAA Division 1 ’Coach of the Year’.For his many contributions to the Daly City community, he was inducted into the Daly City Sports Hall of Fame in April of 2008. He still resides in Daly City with his wife Christine. 

 

Mario Osorio - Head Coach

Mario Orsorio has been working with the Daly City Dolphins since 2000. He was formerly employed by the Daly City Parks and Recreation Department where he managed the Aquatics program. Mario graduated from Westmoor High where he swam for Westmoor team. While swimming for Westmoor he qualified for CCS and held the 100 yard butterfly record. That record has since been broken by a DCD swimmer who Mario trained.
Many of his DCD swimmers achieved PRT times,qualify for the Western All-Star meets, and continue to do so as they move on to other age groups. He has also coached several swimmers who have won High Point trophies and who have placed in several events in the Age Group Championships, JO's as well as Far Westerns. He looks forward to continuing to develop the talent of many more young swimmers. His main priority is to instill a life long love for swimming and the hard work necessary to achieve their goals. 

A. J. Vergara - Coach

A. J. Vergarahas had a long connection with the Daly City Dolphins, where he was a team member for eight years. He also swam at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo , where his favorite events were the 200 Individual Medley, 100 butterfly, and 100 backstroke.
He has been a pre-competition instructor for nine years as well as an age group coach for three years. Since 2003 he hs been head coach of Westmoor High School ’s Swim Team. He feels that his work with DCD provides an important service to the diverse children of our community.

Mark Phee - coach

Mark Phee, a Daly City resident is one of the newest additions to the Daly City Dolphins coaching staff. He has been a part of the swimming scene since the age of fifteen. Like Mario and Janice, Mark had been a part of the Daly City Paks and Recreation Department as a lifeguard and swim instructor for four years.  He was also a member of Westmoor High Schools swim team.  After graduating from Westmoor, he returned the following swim season to work with the Junior Varsity swim team as an assistant coach.  Mark works along with Janessa for the bronze group and wants to continue giving back to his community.

Janessa Rozal - coach

Janessa Rozal has been a part of the Daly City Dolphins since the age of seven when she first joined the team’s summer pre-comp program.  In addition to swimming competitively with DCD, she was a member of the Varsity swim team during her four years at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep; serving as the team captain her senior year.  In high school she was the team’s leading breastroker, qualifying in CCS for the 100 breastroke and team relays.  Giving back to where it all started, Janessa has been a      pre-comp instructor since 2004 and is one of the newest additions to the DCD coaching staff.  As a coach, she hopes to inspire her swimmers to do their best and have fun while swimming.