Head Coach:
Elaine Martinez (3rd season in 2009)
Phone: (626) 585-7058
E-mail: emmartinez@pasadena.edu
Former Lancers pitcher Elaine Martinez replaced her former coach Sandi Iverson (who retired after 27 seasons) as head coach of the Pasadena City College women's softball team as she recently completed her second season directing the program.
Martinez served two seasons as an assistant coach for Iverson in 2005-2006.
This past season, Pasadena jumped two spots in the South Coast Conference standings and more than doubled the team's victories in a strong improvement from Martinez's first and second seasons.
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 a 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 completed her 15th season as PCC's top assistant coach in 2008. 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 19 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
In his 18th 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--Natalie Montoya
Natalie Montoya finished her third season as an assistant coach for the PCC softball program. She joined the Lancers' staff in the 2006 season after playing third base for the Lancers in the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Montoya keeps track of the team's scorebook during games.
Montoya led the Lancers in defensive assists with 105 in 2004 and was part of a talented overall defensive infield that season.
In her final at bat as a player, Montoya singled in the seventh inning of a 1-0 first round playoff loss to Fullerton in ’04. Strong at softball fundamentals, including bunting and moving runners over on offense.
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