Coaching Staff:
Head Coach: Terry Stoddard (626-585-7785)
e-mail: twstoddard@pasadena.edu
Office: W105-C (adjacent to Aquatic Center)
Years at PCC: 9
Recently completing his ninth season coaching men's and women's
swimming at Pasadena City College, Terry Stoddard has been the only
director of the school's Aquatic Center since it came into use in
2000.
Stoddard coached the women's swim team to the school's
first-ever South Coast Conference championship in 2003. This year, his Lancers men's team finished in eighth place at the CCCAA State Championship Meet, the highest finish by a PCC team under Stoddard's direction.
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. PCC was the host venue for the South Coast Conference Championships
in 2008 and 2005.
Stoddard coached the stellar performances of PCC Co-Men's Athlete of the Year for 2007-2008 in sophomore Keisuke Yagi. 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 Co-Swimmer of the Year, marking the third straight year that a PCC swimmer won the award.
In 2007, Stoddard coached two state champions in Nick 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.
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 was named the President of the California Community College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association, a term that runs 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.
 
Assistant Coach - Dan Halladay (above) - Michael Wong (right)
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