Sweet Home swimming coach Doug Peargin will be recognized as 4A Division Girls Swimming Coach of the Year this Saturday night by the Oregon Athletic Coaches Association at its annual awards banquet in Eugene.
Peargin, 72, has been coaching for 48 years, the last 41 at Sweet Home. He coached briefly at Bullard and Tracy high schools in California before moving to Sweet Home in 1974. He’s coached football, water polo and swimming at Sweet…