Monday, October 2, 2023
Alex Nieto, was born Alejandro
Nieto in Nicaragua. Immigrated here with his parents as a child to
California in the 80's and was raised in Orange, California. He
attended El Modena high school in Orange and was both on the cross country
and swim teams in high school. He later enrolled into Orange Coast
and Santiago Community College's and transferred to Cal State, Fullerton where
he played club water polo in college and was a large part of student
organizations in college.
He started coaching in college at
the age of 19 doing swim lessons for ORCA's city summer lessons program and was
asked that fall by his long time coach, Mark Tierney to help coach 9/10 year
olds. He fell in love with coaching right away and has always wanted to make a
career out of being in the sports industry since that day. He loves to
watch the growth of athletes and the success of the programs he works
with.
Alex currently coaches swimmers
from a
ll sorts of organizations. Other than working with the Irvine
NOVA's, Alex is head coach of the girl's and boy's swim team at Northwood
High School and the co-head coach of the North Irvine Knights.