NOTES AND QUOTES for a Friday in the Napa Valley: Presley Bard of Napa had a very good showing at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships for Indiana University last month.

Bard, a Napa High School graduate, earned four All-America certificates in the 100 and 200 backstroke events, 400 medley relay and 200 medley relay. Bard was among eight swimmers from Indiana to attend the meet, which was held at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.

She was 16th in the 200 back with a consolation final time of 1:56.46. She swam the anchor leg on the Hoosiers’ 200-yard medley relay team, which took eighth.

Bard earned in a spot in the 100 back final, qualifying sixth (53.33) — a season best — and eclipsing her old mark of 53.64. In the final, she was seventh with a time of 53.34.

Bard also swam in the anchor spot as the Hoosiers were eighth in the championship final of the 200-yard medley relay. They were sixth in the 400 medley relay.

She is seeded fifth for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100-meter back. Her personal best time is 1:01.32.

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Mike Van Winden of Napa graduated from UC Berkeley last year with not only a degree in civil engineering, but two baseball awards — the coaches’ award and most inspirational award.

The former Jusin-Siena star played baseball for the Bears from 2005-07.

Van Winden, a two-time Napa County Player of the Year, is now attending graduate school at Stanford and pursuing a master’s in construction project management.

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Ian Hetrick, a Vintage graduate, is listed second on the University of Wyoming depth chart for spring football. Hetrick is a 6-foot-2, 190-pound senior from Napa.

Wyoming’s spring game is April 19.

For only the second time in school history, the Cowboys will play seven home games in 2008.

Among those will be contests against Air Force, Utah and archrival Colorado State.

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Dori Bland swam on the University of Colorado’s 400 free relay team, which achieved an American Swimming Association University League record-setting  time at a regional meet in March.

Bland, a Vintage graduate who swam 11 years with the Napa Valley Swim Team, is a member of Colorado’s club swimming program.

Bland swims throughout the year and the team competes with local and regional NCAA Division I, II and III teams.

At the end of each year, the Colorado team competes against the country’s club teams at the ASAU’s National Championships, in which CU is the two-time defending national champion.

Recently, Bland was nominated by her teammates to be the women’s team captain.

She still holds many NVST records, from the 8-and-under 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly for long course up to several senior relay records.

Bland worked her way back into swimming after a broken arm and a torn anterior cruciate ligament that required two surgeries to return to NVST and swim for Vintage.

For the NVST, she swam throughout the western U.S., reaching the level of sectionals. While swimming for Vintage, she qualified for the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Meet all four years. She won the 500 free at the Monticello Empire League meet her freshman year.

Bland is majoring in advertising/mass communications.

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The CIF North Coast Section Division IV champion Justin-Siena girls basketball team will be honored by the Napa County Board of Supervisors at their April 15 meeting. The Braves, who went 29-4 overall and finished as the Northern Regional runner-up, will be honored at 9 a.m. at the county office.

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The UC Davis men’s golf team, coached by Napa High graduate Cy Williams, rallied from a five-shot deficit to win the Wyoming Cowboy Classic title at the par-70, 7,133-yard North Course at Talking Stick Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., Tuesday.

The tournament victory was Davis’ first since winning the same event last year and its second top-two finish in its last four outings. The Aggies finished at 7-under 833.

“We played just awesome in the middle and towards the end of the round,” Williams said on the Aggies’ athletic Web site. “We were really hitting great shots and playing very well.”

Davis will be back in action April 19-20 at the U.S. Intercollegiate at Stanford before participating in its first-ever Big West Conference Championship, April 21-22.

“This really gives us momentum to work harder the next two weeks,” said Williams. “It’s fun to really see what they can do.”

E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.