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Olympian to Run Local Swimming Program

The dream of one Palo Alto High School water polo player is about to come true.

Former Stanford star and Olympian Brenda Villa has agreed to run Project 2020, a water polo and swimming program for young girls from Redwood City and East Palo Alto, the San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday.

The program was begun three years ago by Palo Alto High School water polo star Skylar Dorosin, who raised $12,000 this year for fees and equipment, according to the report. Villa plans on heading the program full-time after the 2012 Olympics.

Dorosin, who started Project 2020 as a sophomore and is now a senior at Paly, is a National Merit honor student and the team's star player.

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Dorosin began Project 2020 to offer swimming and other acquatic sports opportunities to youth in low income communities on the Peninsula. It is named with the hope that one of the program's students will one day play in the 2020 Olympics.

Villa, who was awarded the top female college water polo player Peter J. Cutino Award while at Stanford University and is an Olympian and gold-medalist, is currently the head coach at Castilleja High School for girls' water polo. She will serve as the full-time head of Project 2020 next fall.

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