Maya DiRado was born in San Francisco and raised in Santa Rosa, where she attended Maria Carillo High. She graduated from Stanford with a degree in engineering and management science, and she made the US swim team for the 2016 Summer Olympics. I think Santa Rosa would have been proud if she had come back with one bronze medal, but instead she won four medals, two of them gold. That was not expected. She beat, by inches, the best backstroker in the world.
On TV DiRado seems to be as American as a banana split, and I have no idea if she thinks of herself as a Latina, but her father came from Argentina. We need more of these immigrants.
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