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Bill Sanchez (6th Season in 2013)

Career Record: 56-10, .848 win percentage
Coached 2012 CCCAA State Singles Champion Angie Ortiz
4 South Coast Conference Titles (2009-2012)
1 Southern California Region Crown (2010)
2010 CCCAA State Runner-Up
4-Time SCC Badminton Coach of the Year (2009-2012)

E-mail: pccbadminton@gmail.com

In his five years in charge of the women's badminton program, Head Coach Bill Sanchez has brought the Lancers to new heights. He directed PCC to its first Southern California Region crown and finished CCCAA State runner-up in 2010. Named the California Community College Women's Badminton Coaches Association President, Sanchez will be in his sixth season in 2013.

This past season, he coached the Lancers first state champion in individual singles as freshman Angie Ortiz captured the CCCAA title with a 3-set win in the finals at San Diego City College. Ortiz was later named PCC's 2011-2012 Women's Athlete of the Year for all sports.

Under Sanchez's leadership, the Lancers have won four consecutive South Coast Conference team titles as well as sweeping the All-SCC individual singles and doubles championships in all four years. In both the 2011 and 2012 team season, the Lancers went undefeated in conference play for the first time with 12-0 records.

Sanchez's Lancers own a current, 35-game conference win streak dating back to the first match of the 2010 season. The team recently closed out the 2012 season after putting together a 13-match overall win streak. San Diego City ended the Lancers' season, defeating them in the SoCal title match.

In 2011, The 3-time, SCC Coach of the Year guided the play of conference singles champion Jewy Liang and doubles champs, JK Nguyen-Le and Amy Ly. Nguyen-Le was named the SCC Player of the Year for overall dual meet play. Liang won back-to-back, singles consolation titles at the CCCAA Individual Championships in 2010-2011. The team finished 13-2.

In 2010, he coached Iris Xu, who captured the conference singles and doubles crowns, winning in doubles with partner Nguyen-Le. In the SoCal title match held at PCC, the Lancers defeated San Diego City College, 12-9, clinching the match only when the doubles team of Liang and Anna Tom won their No. 2 match with a 21-19 win in the third and final set.

In the CCCAA State championship match, also at PCC, the Lancers again came down to the final doubles match, but the No. 1 team of Xu-Nguyen-Le was defeated, 21-18, in the third and final set by state champion City College of San Francisco, who won the team points, 11-10.

In the state individuals, Xu and Nguyen-Le took third-place medals in both singles and doubles. PCC finished the season with a sparkling 13-2 overall record.

In 2009, 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
8-2 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 Glendola and has two adult children in son Patrick and daughter Aunie.

PCC BADMINTON HISTORY

In 13 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 nine South Coast Conference titles, including the past four years consecutively.

Seven times the Lancers have made it to the Southern California championship finals in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

PCC has four times hosted the State Championships at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2010. Pasadena learned it will host its fifth championship tournament in 2013.

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