Category: Sports

The men’s and women’s Track and Field teams opened up their season with a first place finish in the one mile race at a meet on Feb. 10 at Mt. San Antonio College.

As men’s baseball coach Evan O’Meara goes into his eighth coaching season at PCC this spring semester he feels confident in the team and is expecting a winning season.

The men’s team faced the Cougars men’s team on Jan. 18. The final score was 62-49, Cougars.

The Women’s basketball team faced the Los Angeles Southwest College Cougars on Jan, 18. The final score was 78-49 Lancers.

Coming off a tenth place finish at the community college state championships, the PCC cross country team’s season gave them their best finish in fifteen years.

It wasn’t all smiles and success as the team suffered many setbacks early on, including losing runners and struggling to adapt to the change of pace from training to competition.

With the large variety of sports PCC has to offer, the methods undertaken by athletes to stay in shape in their respective sport’s offseason do not differ much from one other, from dietary habits to amount of exercise.

So what do athletes do to stay in  game shape when not competing?

After a roller coaster ride of a season in 2010, this year’s PCC football team continued to struggle but began working on its game armed with a new head coach in Fred Fimbres.

Student athletes are typically faced with extensive academic requirements in order to maintain eligibility to play sports for the college. At PCC, special academic counseling for athletes is offered in the Athletic Zone.

The men’s basketball team went 2-1 in the Kennedy and Associates Thanksgiving Tournament over the weekend.