Orange County Roundup

Vic Braden, of Coto de Caza, has been named honorary chairman of the 1985 U.S. National Wheelchair Tennis Championships, to be held at the Irvine Racquet Club Oct. 14-20.

Braden, nationally known as a television sports commentator, tennis instructor, author, speaker and founder of the Vic Braden Tennis College at Coto de Caza, received the 1985 Orange County Sports Hall of Fame Life Achievement Award.

As honorary chairman, he will be the featured speaker at the players/sponsors banquet Oct. 18 at the Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel in Costa Mesa. More than 250 wheelchair tennis players will compete in the tournament, the final stop on the 1985 Grand Prix Circuit.

The first Irvine Company/Orange County Marathon, featuring international runners from such past and future Olympic cities as Athens, Greece and Seoul, South Korea, will be held Dec. 15, beginning in Newport Beach and ending in Irvine.

Men’s and women’s champions from each of Orange County’s 26 cities and 10 unincorporated areas will be crowned. The race begins in Newport Center, then winds through Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Irvine before ending 26 miles, 385 yards later on the UC Irvine campus.