Share: The crowd roared at the Crypto.com arena while the Clippers played a heated match against the Chicago Bulls. But during the game, two students entered the court, and the focus of the entire crowd shifted towards them. Nigel Wilson, a forward for Pasadena’s City College basketball team was honored in what felt like a dream. For Wilson, this story truly begins while he lived in Arizona attending Catalina Foothills high school, and playing for his school’s basketball team. He graduated and began playing and …
23 years and counting: Basketball coach not retiring any time soon
Share: “Nope, I’ll never coach.” Those were the words Joe Peron echoed to George Terzian, his former coach at PCC, when Terzian told him that he would make an incredible coach one day. As to why Peron never entertained the possibility of coaching when he was younger, he said he had seen other coaches embarrass their players, something he would never want to do. “They humiliate them, they spit on ‘em, and I thought I’d never coach,” Peron said. After transferring from PCC and graduating …
PCC women’s basketball falls short in regional semifinals
Share: Pasadena’s women’s basketball team came up short in an overtime loss in the second round of the CCCAA SoCal Regionals to East Los Angeles College (ELAC) 70-64 on Saturday. Follow:
Men’s basketball falls short at ‘We Play Hard Tournament’
Share: The Lancers’ men’s basketball team opened the 2016-17 season with the annual Ventura “We Play Hard Tournament” and made it to the consolation game but came up one point short and lost to Orange Coast College (OCC) 79-78 in the final minutes. Follow:
Men’s basketball ready for new recruits next season
Share: The Lancers men’s basketball team ended the season with a blowout loss against Mount San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) and are looking forward to a new class of recruits next year. Follow: