Acalanes swimmers disqualified from NCS finals: “I’ve been working my entire high school career to get to this point”

LAFAYETTE — Taryn Veronda and Cale Hanson spent all season preparing for this weekend’s North Coast Section swimming championships. Countless hours in the pool helped the Acalanes seniors qualify for the big meet.

But Veronda and Hanson are among 13 Dons, including six other seniors, denied from competing on Friday at the Concord Community Pool because the electronic entry form the coach said he submitted to the section office was not received.

Coach Brett Usinger blamed the misstep on a glitch in the system.