Athletics

Coaching Staff:

Head Coach: Terry Stoddard (626-585-7785)
e-mail: twstoddard@pasadena.edu
Office: W-105C (adjacent to the Aquatic Center)

Years at PCC: Begins 10th season in 2008

In his ninth year at Pasadena City College, Terry Stoddard has been the only director of the school's Aquatic Center since it came into use in 2000. He recently completed the most successful season of women's water polo ever at PCC.

The team took third place at the South Coast Conference Tournament, defeating a high-ranked Chaffey team that went on to reach the State Tournament. The Lancers grabbed fourth place overall in the combined regular season/tournament standings and finished above .500 overall at 14-13.

For the second straight season, Stoddard coached an All-l-American player who would set the school's single-season goals record. One year after Sarah Min scored 96 goals, Lybov Tchoughounova scored 105 goals in 2007 to break the goals mark.  She also is the school's career goals leader in just her freshman season, breaking the two-year mark of Andrea Ahle (2005-2006).

Stoddard coached the women's swim team to the school's first-ever South Coast Conference championship in 2003. Besides his tireless work as a coach for three of PCC's 16 intercollegiate teams (men's and women's swimming/diving in the Spring), Stoddard hosts several tournaments and invitationals. His annual Pasadena Invitational recently had 21 colleges across the state participate. In 2006, the State Championships were held at the Aquatic Center with Stoddard as director of the event. PCC hosted the South Coast Conference Swimming/Diving Championships in 2005.

Earlier this year, Stoddard coached a pair of state champion swimmers in Nick Lao (50-freestyle) and Keiskue Yagi (200-breaststroke). Lao was a two-time SCC Swimmer of the Year in 2006-2007. In 2003, Stoddard coached the SCC Swimmer of the Year in women's Lancer Lorean Mapp. She was later honored by the state as a Pepsi Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll selection.

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, he coached boys water polo at Capistrano Valley High from 1978-80. In swimming, Stoddard was head coach at Buena High School (1977-78) and later a coach at Capistrano Valley 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.

Personal Highlights

• Married to wife Sheri, the couple have two daughters in Michelle and Dana.

• Stoddard earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees at Eastern Kentucky University in 1976-77. He attended the college on a swim scholarship and went on to set then school records in the 200, 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle events.

• Stoddard was hired as the full-time aquatics coach at PCC in August, 1999.

• Dana Stoddard was hired at PCC in 2006 as a full-time assistant equipment attendant

• Sheri Stoddard teaches swim classes at the Aquatic Center