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Bill Sanchez (3rd Season in 2010)

E-mail: pccbadminton@gmail.com

In just his second year in charge of the women's badminton program, Head Coach Bill Sanchez completed a 2009 season that saw his team win the South Coast Conference title and  culminate with his selection as the SCC Coach of the Year.

This past season, Sanchez coached SCC individual singles champion Priscilla Lun, ranked No. 11 in the nation by U.S. Badminton, and saw Lun team with Angela Chinn to win the SCC doubles crown. Lun would go undefeated in all of her matches in '09, a Lancers' first. PCC finished 12-2 overall.

In 2008, Sanchez coached the South Coast Conference individual doubles champions in Nina Ruedas and Angeline Kornelus. The team finished a successful 9-3 overall and placed second in the conference.

Prior to his arrival at PCC, Sanchez was a long-time physical education teacher at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy. Sanchez taught club badminton and badminton classes regularly at Flintridge before retiring from the high school after 20 years on the job (1985-2005). Sanchez was a head coach in a variety of sports at FSHA, including basketball, volleyball, and tennis.

After attending Loyola High School, Sanchez went on to play as an All-Metropolitan Conference volleyball setter at LA Valley College and also played tennis for the Monarchs.

He graduated with a bachelor's in P.E. at Cal State Los Angeles and earned his master's degree at Azusa Pacific University.

Sanchez lives in Glendora with his wife of 21 years, Bryn. The couple have two children in son Patrick, 16, a two-sport student-athlete at Glendora High, and daughter Aunie, 15.

PCC BADMINTON HISTORY

In 10 seasons since it was certified as a California Community College intercollegiate sport in 2000, women's badminton has made a successful run at Pasadena City College. The program won six South Coast Conference titles, including this past season's crown.

Four times the Lancers have made it to the Southern California championship finals in 2000, 2001, 2004, and 2009.

PCC has three times hosted the State Championships at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium in 2003, 2004 and in 2006.

PCC plays its regular season dual matches in the South Coast Conference, competing against El Camino, East Los Angeles, ECC Compton Center and LA City.