Coaching Staff:
Head Coach: Tammy Silva, 2nd Season
Career Record: 66-39, .629 win percentage
Career at PCC: 11-11, .500
VB Phone: 626-585-7786
E-mail: tlknott-silva@pasadena.edu
Assistant Coaches: Leslie Flores, Brittany Miller
With five years experience directing teams at the community college level, Tammy Silva, 30, will begin her second season as Pasadena City College women’s volleyball head coach in Fall, 2008.
In 2007, Silva turned around a Lancers' program that only won eight matches between 2004-2006. She coached PCC to an impressive 9-5 fourth place finish in the South Coast Conference and 11-11 overall record. The team also placed runner-up at the San Diego City College Tournament.
Silva coached the previous four seasons at Citrus College, where she took a mediocre program and turned it into a state Top 10 team. In 2006, she directed Citrus to the second round of the Southern California Regional Playoffs before her team was beaten in a five-game match by eventual state runner-up Los Angeles Pierce.
Her overall record of 66-39 and .629 winning percentage puts her among the elite coaches in California volleyball. In 2005-2006, she coached Citrus to a 36-9 record and two trips to the SoCal Playoffs second round. Her teams were ranked No. 9 in the CCCWVCA Top 25 Poll in ’06 and No. 12 in ’05.
Silva also coached the team to second place finishes both years in the powerful Western State Conference South Division. In ’06, her team went 8-2 in conference play and went 1-1 against WSC champion LA Pierce, handing that program its only conference defeat.
In 2005, Silva was named the WSC Coach of the Year as her team finished 17-5 overall. Her teams twice won the San Diego City College Tournament titles in ’05-06 and took second place both years at the Santa Ana Tourney.
Silva talked about her new challenge of coaching at PCC.
“The past few years I helped put Citrus on the map among the elite programs in women’s volleyball,” said Silva. “I expect to do the same here at PCC. This program had some great years under Lori Jepsen (head coach for 24 seasons). My team came within a few points of making it to the State Championship Final Eight in 2006. Those are the type of goals we’re going to set here. Trying to win a South Coast Conference title is another goal."
Jepsen coached PCC to the State Championship Tournament three times, including the college’s highest finish ever, third place, in 1995. The Lancers have never won a conference title since joining the South Coast in 1987.
Silva is strong at moving her players to the next level. She helped three players earn 4-year university scholarships in All-State outside hitter Kelly Fink (UC Riverside), All-WSC middle blocker Jen Washington (Cal State San Bernardino), and CCCWVCA Scholar-Athlete and outside hitter Lucero Vargas (Cal Poly Pomona). Fink was a two-time WSC Player of the Year.
In 2007, Silva coached four freshmen players that were selected to the All-South Coast Conference teams in First Teamers Ashley Marshman and Candice Price and Second Teamers Amy Stone and Aliyyah Abdullah.
Before coaching at Citrus, Silva spent one year as a graduate assistant coach at Southeastern Louisiana University, a NCAA Division I school.
A three-sport star herself at Covina’s Gladstone High School, The 6-foot tall Silva (formerly Tammy Knott) was picked as the San Gabriel Valley Player of the Year for girls’ volleyball in 1995. In 1996-97, she was a two-time All-Foothill Conference selection at Citrus College, leading the state in kills as a freshman and earning conference MVP honors in ’96.
She earned an athletic scholarship at Southeastern Louisiana (1998-2000) and played both volleyball and basketball while earning her B.S. degree and then Master’s degree in Health/Kinesiology. She was an All-Southland Conference choice in volleyball, leading the team in kills and hitting percentage.
Silva is married to Shandon Silva, a football assistant coach who recently joined the part-time staff at PCC after coaching at Citrus College. The couple has one child, 3-year old daughter Savanna. Silva’s athletic coaching ties don’t end with her husband, as her older brother John Knott is the head baseball coach at Bonita High.
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