Lancers Women's Softball Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Brittany Williams, 2nd season in 2013 (3rd year at PCC)
Coach Phone: (949) 413-3388
Coach E-Mail: bdwilliams@pasadena.edu
WILLIAMS COACHING BIO
Brittany Williams was named the fifth head coach in Pasadena City College women's softball history in July, 2011. It is the first head coaching position for Williams, who originally joined the PCC family as an assistant coach for the Lancers that year.
Last season, Williams picked up her first career coaching victory when the Lancers blanked San Bernardino Valley College, 8-0, at the season-opening Glendale Tournament. Although the team went through growing pains in the rookie coaching year of 2012, Williams saw two of her players earn 4-year university scholarships. Centerfielder Brittany Skoien became the first PCC player to make the All-South Coast Conference First Team since 2008. Skoien, the conference leader in on-base percentage at .588, is now at William Penn University (West Des Moines, Iowa). Third/first baseman Ilene Suleymanyan took her playing talents to Alcorn State University (in Mississippi).
Williams served as pitching coach in 2010 at Lafayette College (Pennsylvania) after completing her college playing career at Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, Calif.).
At Sonoma State from 2007-2009, Williams excelled as a starting pitcher. She led the team in all pitching categories as a junior including nine wins and four shutouts, then pitched an 11-5 season as a senior and the Seawolves No. 2 ace in 2009. She finished fourth in school history in career starts and career pitching appearances.
Williams was selected to the CCAA All-Academic team in 2008. She graduated from Sonoma State with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 2009.
In 2006, Williams attended Cypress College and was a redshirt before transferring to Sonoma State.
In 2005, Williams originally earned a playing scholarship at NCAA Division II Arkansas Tech University. As a freshman, she won nine games and was a regular in the Golden Suns batting lineup as a first baseman-pitcher. She pitched nine victories and batted .264 with 22 RBI in her one season there.
As a prep athlete, Williams accomplished an All-South Coast League selection at Capistrano Valley High. A scholar-athlete all four years, she was team captain as a senior in 2004.
Williams is currently working on her master's in coaching and athletic administration at Concordia University, Irvine.
Assistant Coach--Mary Geer, 20th season in 2013
Mary Geer continues the longest current tenure by an assistant coach of any women's sports team at Pasadena City College as she begins her 20th season in 2013. A true loyal Lancer, Geer played for retired Coach Sandi 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 an Elizabeth Jensen Scholarship Award.
Geer has worked as an elementary school teacher for the past 25 years and served as 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. Recently, Geer earned the state's PTA highest public service honor -- The Golden Oak Service Award.
Currently, she teaches second grade and also instructs fitness classes at East Los Angeles College.
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--Roger Williams, 2nd season in 2013
Roger Williams continues to be a valued assistant coach on his daughter's coaching staff with a wealth of fastpitch softball experience, coaching for many seasons at the high school and club levels.
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Retired Coach Sandi Iverson
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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
FASTPITCH SOFTBALL HISTORY
In 2011, Kim Maxwell and Chris Zboril became the first modern day Lancers softball players to be inducted into the PCC Sports Hall of Fame.
Maxwell holds school records for most victories in a career and had consecutive 20--win seasons in 1990-91. She was named South Coast Conference and Southern California Region Pitcher of the Year. Zboril was a conference MVP in 1994 and went on to become an All-American slugger at Cal State Fullerton.
In 2009, PCC won the prestigious Golden West Tournament for the first time in school history, winning all five games at the 32nd year of the tourney.
The Lancers play in the state's most powerful league, the South Coast Conference, host of the CCCAA state champion in three straight seasons from 2007-2009
In 1990-91, the Lancers won back-to-back, South Coast Conference titles and were winners of a school-record 34 games in 1991 when it finished in fifth place at the state tournament. From 1991 thru 2001, the Lancers reached the regional playoffs every year.
In the 1980s, PCC won four Metropolitan Conference titles, including back-to-back in 1980-81 and 1985-86. All six conference championships were under the leadership of Sandi Iverson, who retired in 2006 after 27 seasons directing the program. Iverson was recently elected into the CCCFCA Hall of Fame and is one of the few coaches in the state with more than 500 victories in her career
PCC
CONFERENCE
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
1980--Dori Duff, Metropolitan Conf.
1982--Elise King, Metropolitan Conf.
1985--Roisin Courtney, Metro. Conf.
1986--Valerie Douglas, Metro. Conf.
1991--Kim Maxwell, South Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year
1992--Jami White, South Coast Conf.
1994--Chris Zboril, South Coast Conf.
1996--Gina Punaro, South Coast Conf.
1999--Kellie Labor, South Coast Conf.
2004--Sarah Sherman, South Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year
2005--Traci Trujillo, South Coast Conf.
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