Carrie Tucker

Carrie Tucker was always willing to swim in off events to help the team win. At the BVAL Championships in her junior year, she helped the Antioch HS girls win the school’s first league swimming title, fending off rivals Clayton Valley and Carondelet by swimming in off events. She was a league champion in the 500 free as a sophomore and the 200 freestyle as a junior. At the NCS Championships she was a five-time finalist in five different individual events (50, 100, 200, 500 freestyle, and 100 backstroke) and was on five relays. During Carrie’s senior year she posted a CIF top 16 time in California in the 100 freestyle and was voted girls team captain and the MVP Award. She also excelled academically and was the female CIF Scholar Athlete of the Year for Antioch High School.

Carrie signed on to swim and play water polo at the University of Pacific in Stockton on an Academic Scholarship during her first two years. In her junior and senior years, she earned a full swimming/water polo scholarship. As a sophomore Carrie was a finalist in the 100 backstroke at the Big West Conference Swimming Championships. As a junior she finaled in the 100 and 200 freestyle. She was the UOP girls swim team captain in both her junior and senior years. Carrie was a Big West Scholar-Athlete and Academic Scholar Athlete all four years at UOP for both swimming and water polo.

Carrie was an English teacher as well as a swimming and water polo coach at Deer Valley and Heritage HS in Brentwood for 18 years before moving into administration. She was the principal at Heritage HS for eight years and is currently working for the Antioch Unified School District as the Senior Director of Human Resources.

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