Coaching Staff:
Head Coach: Terry Stoddard (626-585-7785)
2011 South Coast Conference Men's Coach of the Year
Coached 6 State Individual Champions
Coached 6 Consecutive SCC Swimmers of the Year (2006-2011)
Coached 6 Straight PCC Men's Athlete of the Year Award Winners
(2006-2011)
E-mail: twstoddard@pasadena.edu
Office: W105-C (adjacent to Aquatic Center)
Year at PCC: 14th in 2013
Beginning his 14th season in charge of the men's and women's
swimming and diving teams at Pasadena City College, head coach Terry Stoddard has been the only
director of the school's Aquatic Center since it came into use in
2000.
At the 2012 CCCAA State Championships, Stoddard coached his sixth individual state champion in the past six years. Freshman Stephen To rallied to win the 200-yard butterfly state title as he joined Sharif Alaoui (200 freestyle, 2010), Tai Nuntapramote (200 butterfly, 2009), Keisuke Yagi (100 breaststroke, 2008; 200 breaststroke, 2007) and Nick Lao (50 freestyle, 2007).
Stoddard coached the women's swim team to the school's
first-ever South Coast Conference championship in 2003. In 2011, his Lancers men's team finished in eighth place at the CCCAA State Championship Meet, matching the highest finish by a PCC team under Stoddard's direction. PCC also took eighth in the 2008 state meet.}
Also in 2011, the men's swim team finished in second in conference dual meets with a Stoddard-best coached 6-1, South Coast Conference record.
Besides
his tireless work as a coach for three of PCC's 16 intercollegiate
teams (women's water polo in the Fall), Stoddard hosts several tournaments
and invitationals. His annual Pasadena Invitational featured several of the top programs in the state. In 2006, the state
championships were held at the Aquatic Center with Stoddard as director
of the event. This past season (2012), PCC was the host venue for the South Coast Conference Championships for the third time (also 2005, 2008).
In 2009-2011, Stoddard guided the progress of Alaoui, the 2009-2010 PCC Men's Athlete of the Year. Alaoui was a two-time, SCC Swimmer of the Year, marking a remarkable sixth straight year in which a Pasadena athlete captured that award (ended in 2012). The program held a streak of four straight years (2007-2010) in which a PCC swimmer won a state title.
In 2011 , he guided Cario Liu to break the school record in the 400 individual medley when he took third place in the event at the CCCAA State Meet. Stoddard coached the 2010 SCC Women's Diver of the Year in Merry Sanders.
In 2009, he directed Thailand's Nuntapramote to become the fourth straight SCC Swimmer of the Year.
Stoddard coached the stellar performances of PCC Co-Men's Athlete of the Year Yagi for 2007-2008. From Japan, Yagi became the first Lancer swimmer in 30 years to win state titles in consecutive seasons. He medaled five times at the '08 meet in Mission Viejo, including a school-record 56.85 seconds swim to win the 100-yard breaststroke state title. Yagi was selected SCC Swimmer of the Year.
In 2007, Stoddard directed two state champions in Lao (50-yard freestyle) and Yagi (200-yard breaststroke). It was the first time PCC had a swimmer win a state title since 1991 when All-American Ernie Lee won two events. Lao was a two-time SCC Swimmer of the Year in 2006 and '07. He is the school record holder in the 50 free.
In 2003, Stoddard coached the SCC Swimmer of the
Year in Lancer Lorean Mapp. She was later honored by the state as
a Pepsi Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll selection and went on to swim at Cal State Northridge.
Stoddard served as President of the California Community College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association, a term that ran from 2007-2009.
Before coming to PCC, Stoddard served as the head
coach for Rose Bowl Aquatics in Pasadena from 1992-97. On the national
level, Stoddard was an assistant coach for the U.S. women's team
at the Pan American Games in 1991. An adviser for the Polish Olympic
swim team, he coached two medalists in Rafel Szukala (1992, silver
medal, 100-yard butterfly) and Artur Wojdat (1988, bronze medal,
400-freestyle).
A club coach in Mission Viejo, Stoddard directed
back-to-back U.S. junior national championship teams for men
and combined in 1986-87.
At the prep level, Stoddard was head coach at Buena
High School (1977-78) and later a coach at Capistrano Valley High
from 1978-85. The Capistrano girls' team finished as CIF runner-up
five times and the '81 team set a then national prep record in the
200-yard medley relay. He directed seven individual CIF champions
in his tenure there.
He also coached boys water polo at Capistrano Valley
from 1978-80.
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