Sports
The sports teams are known as the Lancers, and the school colors are cardinal red and gold. PCC's baseball team uses Jackie Robinson Field, a baseball field near the Rose Bowl, for practices and home games.
The current stadium, Robinson Stadium, is named for Jackie and Mack Robinson, both of whom were PCC alumni. The stadium was completed in 1999 after a renovation to move the stadium from a North-West position to a East-West direction. Recently, Robinson Stadium's surface has changed to SprinTurf and the track was converted to all-weather track. Besides PCC athletics, Marshall Fundamental Secondary School, Pasadena High School, and Blair International Baccalaureate School uses Robinson Stadium for some high school home football games due to lack of resources on the respective campus fields.
Athelic programs available are: Basketball, cross country, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, baseball, softball, football, and soccer.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)