Pasadena City College
Women's Softball
Head Coach:
Elaine Martinez (4th season in 2010)
Phone: (626) 585-7058
E-mail: emmartinez@pasadena.edu
Elaine Martinez has made giant strides as Head Coach of the Lancers' softball team. In just three short years, Martinez saw her team win 20 games in 2009, a 300 percent improvement from her rookie season of 2007.
She replaced the legendary Sandi Iverson, who also had coached Martinez when she was a Lancers' top pitcher in 2001-2002.
Martinez served two seasons as an assistant coach for Iverson in 2005-2006.
In '09, PCC won the prestigious Golden West Tournament for the first time in school history, winning all five games at the 32-year-old tourney. The Lancers play in the state's most powerful league, the South Coast Conference. In each of the last three years, the CCCAA state champion has come from the SCC in Mt. San Antonio (2007, 2009) and Cerritos (2008).
As a PCC student-athlete, Martinez was the South Coast Conference top scholar-athlete in her sophomore playing season of 2002, and made the COA Pepsi Scholar Honor Roll. She was the Lancers' pitching ace for two seasons (2001-2002), winning 32 games.
Before Sarah Sherman broke the record in 2005, Martinez initially became PCC’s all-time strikeout leader with 272 in 2002. Her 166 Ks that year also was briefly a PCC single-season record. Sherman and Martinez are the only two PCC pitchers to ever record back-to-back 100-strikeout seasons. In 2001, Martinez pitched the Lancers to the Southern California Regional playoffs, hurling victories over Antelope Valley and Victor Valley.
Prior to coming to PCC, Martinez accomplished an outstanding prep career at Rosemead High School. She was the Mission Valley League MVP and helped Rosemead to an undefeated league championship in 2000 as a senior. She was named the Rosemead Female Athlete of the Year and was an All-San Gabriel Valley Area selection.
After playing at PCC, Martinez pitched for the women's softball team and attended the University of La Verne.
Martinez previously worked as an educational counselor at the college’s Stan Gray Academic Athletic Zone.
Her older sister Valerie Martinez pitched for PCC on the 1996 and 1997 teams.
Assistant Coach--Mary Geer
Mary Geer will begin her 17th season as PCC's top assistant coach in 2010. Geer also played for retired Coach Iverson in the 1984-85 seasons and was the second baseman on a Lancer team that finished fifth in the state.
In her sophomore-playing season, Geer was honored with the Elizabeth Jensen Scholarship Award.
Geer has been an elementary school teacher for the past 20 years and is the Success For All Reading Program facilitator for the West Covina Unified School District. She was honored as a California Teacher of the Year for 2002.
Geer also coached girls’ basketball for five seasons at Bishop Amat High School and directed a league championship team.
In 2001, Geer was honored along with Coach Iverson and pitching coach Wayne Maxwell as the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Community College Coaching Staff of the Year.
Assistant Coach--Wayne Maxwell
Entering his 20th season on the PCC assistant coaching staff, Wayne Maxwell once again performs his valuable role as pitching coach.
Maxwell helped mold current PCC Head Coach Elaine Martinez into one of the top pitchers in the South Coast Conference and has advised the college's top four all-time strikeout leaders.
In 2000, he coached a pitching staff that recorded 16 shutouts. Maxwell's daughter Kim Maxwell was the Southern California Pitcher of the Year in 1991 and still holds the PCC record for most victories in a season with 26. Assistant Coach--Stephanie Yuen
Stephanie Yuen, an All-South Coast Conference First Team first baseman for the Lancers in 2006, will begin her third season on the PCC assistant coaching staff.
Yuen played two seasons for the Lancers, leading the team defensively in putouts both years. Her .991 fielding percentage led the team as a sophomore in '06. That season she batted .320 with 1 home run and 25 RBI.
In her two playing years, the Lancers were a successful 56-26 with two appearances in the Southern California Regional Playoffs.
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