courtesy of PCC Courier Joe Peron, head coach of the women’s basketball program at Pasadena City College since 1996, will be honored with the City of Pasadena’s 2017 Black History Celebration and Planning Committee Service Award. Peron is one of several PCC employee recipients this year, but is believed to be the first coach to […]
courtesy of PCC Courier
Joe Peron, head coach of the women’s basketball program at Pasadena City College since 1996, will be honored with the City of Pasadena’s 2017 Black History Celebration and Planning Committee Service Award. Peron is one of several PCC employee recipients this year, but is believed to be the first coach to receive such an honor since the city began these awards in 2009.
Peron will be honored at the annual Red, Black and Green Honors Dinner to be held at the Noor Ballroom at Pasadena’s Paseo Colorado on Saturday evening, Feb. 4.
Three of the other recipients are Dr. Robert Bell, Assistant Superintendent/Senior Vice President, Non-credit and Offsite Campuses at PCC, former college athletic director Beverly Tate, and PACCD Board of Trustee Berlinda Brown. Bell oversaw the college’s athletics area during a transitional period a few years ago.
Peron is the winningest basketball coach, men or women, in the college’s history with 481 victories to date. He coached the only CCCAA state team championship in PCC’s women’s sports history in 2009. Besides numerous coaching accolades including the South Coast Conference Women’s Coach of the Year for all sports in 2009, Peron served as President of TABE, the Association of Black Employees at PCC from 2010 to 2014. In that time, he increased and distributed more scholarships to students than ever before.
Peron created the Student Athlete Success Club at PCC where he serves as advisor. Twice, Peron was nominated as PCC Teacher of the Year.
