Editing Mission Viejo, California (section)

==Sports==
[[File:20140629-0726 Olympiad Park.JPG|thumb|Florence Joyner Olympiad Park]]

Mission Viejo has a major youth athletic facility, Mission Viejo Youth Athletic Park. The park consists of eight baseball fields and five soccer fields. It is host to [http://www.district68.com Little League District 68], [http://www.ayso84.org/ AYSO Region 84], and four competitive soccer clubs: Pateadores Soccer Club, Mission Viejo Soccer Club, West Coast Futbol Club, and Saddleback United Soccer Club.

The [[Mission Viejo Nadadores]] Swimming and Mission Viejo Nadadores Diving Team won a string of national championships and produced a number of Olympians and world record holders in the 1970s and 1980s. Olympians included [[Shirley Babashoff]], [[Brian Goodell]], Larson Jenson, Maryanne Graham, Nicole Kramer, Casy Converse, Marcia Morey, [[Dara Torres]], and [[Greg Louganis]].

Mission Viejo hosted the [[Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Road Cycling Events]] during the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] held in Los Angeles. The old O'Neill Road was renamed Olympiad Rd. in honor of the Olympic events in 1984. In 2004, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the 1984 Olympics Cycling Road Race, the City of Mission Viejo dedicated a permanent start/finish line and historic markers which are installed on Olympiad Road near the entrance to Lake Mission Viejo.<ref>In 2004, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the 1984 Olympics Cycling Road Race, Mission Viejo dedicated a permanent start/finish line and historic markers which are installed on Olympiad Road near the entrance to Lake Mission Viejo.</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://patch.com/california/missionviejo/what-those-markers-are-all-over-town | title=What Those Markers Are All over Town | date=July 18, 2014 }}</ref>

There is also a soccer facility, now used by the town's youth soccer program, that was used as a training field by the United States men's national soccer team before and during the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]], hosted by the United States.

The Saddleback College ballpark hosted the [[Mission Viejo Vigilantes]] minor league baseball team of the [[Western Baseball League]] from 1996 to 2001. Now the ballpark has a semi-pro collegiate team, the Orange County Fire.

Mission Viejo is also the hometown of [[NFL]] quarterback [[Mark Sanchez]], [[Minnesota Twins]] pitcher [[Phil Hughes (baseball)|Phil Hughes]], and [[Chicago White Sox]] first baseman [[Adam LaRoche]], former [[Milwaukee Brewers]] pitcher [[Don August]], [[Boston Red Sox]] outfielder [[Allen Craig]], [[Top Shot (season 4)|Top Shot Season 4]] Champion [[Chris Cheng]], and PBA Tour Champion Scott Norton.