Pasadena City College
Men's/Women's Cross Country
Coaching Staff:
Men's/Women's Cross Country Head Coach
Armand Crespo (626) 221-6849
Year at PCC: 2nd season
E-mail: acrespo13@gmail.com
Armand Crespo
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Assistant
Coaches:
Adrian Aguilar-Guillen (Men), Teyana Viscarra (Women)
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Former PCC cross country runner Armand Crespo is in his second season as Head Coach for men's and women's cross country in 2008.
The PCC men's teams finished in the top 10 at the State Championship
meet five times between 1994-2001, including a runner-up finish in 1996.
Crespo ran both cross country and track and field at PCC from 1986-88. He then served as an assistant coach in charge of distance running from 1994-2000 for the Lancers' women's cross country and track and field teams. He was an assistant to both Gomez and former women's coach Grace Apiafi.
For the women, Crespo coached Aidita Gibson, who helped the PCC 1995 team to the highest finish in school history, third place in the state. Crespo also helped direct the Lancers to a fourth place state finish in Gibson's sophomore year of 1996.
After attending PCC, Crespo transferred and ran both sports at Cal State Los Angeles. He finished All-Conference in cross country and took third place in the 10,000 meters at the conference track and field championships. Crespo earned a B.S. degree in kinesiology (exercise science) at CSLA.
He began coaching in 1991 at San Gabriel High School and was the head coach for cross country in 1994. After his first tour of duty at PCC, Crespo went back to Cal State LA and served as an assistant distance coach for the two sports from 2000-2005. At CSLA, he coached two All-Americans in cross country, including AnnMarie Housen, who finished 10th at the national Division II championship meet.
Phil Gonzalez (3rd place in 1996 State Meet, South Coast Conferencechampion), Moises Iniquez (2nd
place, 2002 State Meet, and SCC champion), Sergio Campos (2001 SCC champion, 3rd at 2000 State Meet) and Marcos Aguirre (1998 SCC champion) highlight the top runners that raced for the Lancers in recent years.
Gonzalez
was inducted into the PCC Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. Iniquez, Gonzalez, and Ray Gomez (1994) were all former PCC
Male Athletes of the Year.
Joaquin Gomez, son of retired coach Jesse Gomez, finished his two years at PCC as a two-time, All-SCC runner in 2005-2006.
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