Pasadena City College Athletics

Pasadena City College sponsors intercollegiate teams through the newly named Kinesiology, Health & Athletics Division. The Lancer teams play (except for football) in the South Coast Conference, considered among the most competitive community college conferences in the nation. The PCC football team is joining a new Southern California Football Association in 2008 as part of the National North Conference.

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For the past several years Pasadena City College’s Athletics has seen tremendous progress since the building of the campus’ athletic complex (GM Building) in 1999.

This includes Robinson Stadium (the football site named in honor of two great sports icons, Jackie and Mack Robinson), Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium, and the Aquatic Center. PCC also hosts the renovated Sports Hall of Fame (wall of plaques on the first floor of the GM Building) and Court of Champions, a foray with bronze busts of famous PCC alumni, located just outside of the GM.

In 2006, a brand new artificial turf surface (SprinTurf) was added to Robinson Stadium for football and soccer games. Since 1998, PCC added men’s and women’s soccer, women’s water polo, and women’s badminton to the intercollegiate sports mix.

In 2007, Edino Steele became the first Lancer men's track and field runner to win four state meet events (200, 400, and a member of both the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams).
The women's basketball team has been nearly unbeatable from 2003-to-present, twice finishing as the State runner-up. That program won four SCC titles between 1997-2003 and was a co-champion in 2005 and 2007. The team has advanced to the CCCAA Championship Tournament in each of the last five seasons, the only program in the state that can make that claim. The State Player of the Year has emerged from PCC three times in Jeanine Deno (2006-2007), Dionne Pounds (2004-2005), and Tiana Sanders (1998-1999).
The men’s basketball team finished in the state Final 16 in 2003-2004, and won its first-ever South Coast Conference title in the 1999-2000 season. In 2007-2008, Harold Cleveland led the state in scoring and became just the 11th men's player to score 1,000 points in his PCC career.
In 2001-2002, the football team won its first-ever Mission Conference championship and played in back-to-back postseason bowl games. In 2006-2007, quarterback David Pittman broke all of the school's passing records, including most yards, most completions, touchdowns, and highest completion percentage in a game, season, career. Pittman gained a scholarship at the University of Minnesota. Utah's David Reed set the national record for most receptions and receiving yards in a season (111 for 1,661 yards in '07) and was named All-American First Team.
The men's soccer team made a trip to the State Final Four (finished third) in 2002, and won three straight conference championships from 1999-2001 before picking up a fourth SCC title in 2004.
In 2007, Nick Lao and Keisuke Yagi became the first PCC swimmers in 16 years to win a state meet event. Between the pair, PCC has had an athlete named SCC Swimmer of the Year in each of the last three seasons. Yagi won state events in back-to-back seasons ('07-08), the first swimmer to pull off the feat since 1978. The women's swimming and diving team won its first-ever SCC title in 2003. PCC's Aquatic Center was the host site for the 2006 and 2002 State Championship meets.
The women's badminton team captured three straight conference titles from 2003-2005. Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium, the badminton home arena, was the host site for the 2006 State Championship Tournament. In 2008, the pair of Nina Ruedas and Angeline Kornelus won the SCC doubles title.
The women's softball program qualified for the Southern California Regional playoffs in 15 of the past 17 seasons.
The women's volleyball program will host the 2008 CCCAA Championship Tournament in December. PCC's Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium also was the site of both the 1999 and 2001 state tourneys.

Jerome Harrison, Football, 2003--Led the nation and the NCAA Division IA in total regular-season rushing yards in 2005 at Washington State University. He broke a number of Cougars' rushing records in his two seasons. At PCC, he holds the record of being the only running back to ever produce back-to-back 1,000-plus yard rushing seasons. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the '06 NFL Draft, and was ready for his third season with the team in '08.

Yura Movsisyan, Men's Soccer, 2005--After leading the team in scoring, the freshman impressed pro scouts and was drafted No. 4 overall in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft by the Kansas City Wizards franchise. He is the highest drafted community college player in American professional soccer history, and he is currently a member of the Salt Lake City, Utah franchise.

Horace Wormely, Men's Basketball 2001-2003--Named the Golden State Athletic Conference Player of the Year in '05-06 in his senior season at Vanguard University.

Sarah Sherman, Women's Softball 2004-2005--After being an All-American for PCC, she was named a GSAC First Team selection, pitched a perfect game, hurled 18 wins, and hit a dramatic walk-off home run in the NAIA Championship Tournament this year in her junior season at California Baptist University. Sherman announced her retirement from collegiate athletics at the conclusion of the '06 season.

Joey Dyche, Men's Baseball 2003-2004--After two years at PCC, Dyche became a NAIA All-American outfielder at Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho, where he set a school record for highest batting average in a season (.500) and became the first collegiate player to ever hit for the cycle in a NAIA World Series game. He was drafted 222nd overall in the seventh round of the '05 MLB Draft, spending several seasons on minor league teams in the San Francisco Giants' organization.

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