2022-2023 Pasadena City College Women's Basketball News
Pasadena City College women's basketball head coach Joe Peron was surprised to receive in the mail this week a special recognition. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored Peron with a certificate of celebration on his breaking the all-time coaching wins record for all sports at PCC.
For the fifth straight season, the Pasadena City College women's basketball team placed a player on the All-State Team. Transfer sophomore center Tena Ikidi was chosen to the '22-23 First Team after leading the state in total rebounds with a PCC school-record 468.
Although eliminated in Round 2 of the SoCal Regionals on Saturday, the Pasadena City College women's basketball team can look back at a 2022-2023 season that saw the squad place second in the South Coast Conference North Division, set some program records, and successfully return to the postseason.
The Pasadena City College women's basketball team decided to make the most of its #19 seed and started the Southern California Regional Playoffs with a mild upset at #14 San Diego Mesa, 46-44, on Wednesday night.
After missing the playoffs last season, the 2022-23 Pasadena City College women's basketball team earned the #19 seed and made the postseason for the 24th time in 26 seasons under head coach Joe Peron. The Lancers visit #14 San Diego Mesa tonight at 7 p.m. in a Southern California Regional Round 1 game.
In 1983, Joe Peron was a point guard on the last state men's basketball finalist at Pasadena City College. The team lost the state championship game to Cerritos College in triple overtime. Peron has been winning ever since.
Behind the women's basketball team's 71-61 victory at Rio Hondo College on Wednesday, Lancers head coach Joe Peron tied Hall of Fame softball coach Sandi Iverson for the most victories ever by a Pasadena City College head coach in all sports, men and women. Peron reached win No. 562 in his 26 seasons in charge of the program.
They call her "Nay-Nay," but it was a lot of yay-yays for Bryannae Robinson in the first half of the Pasadena City College women's basketball team game v. LA Trade-Tech on Friday night. Robinson put on a show, scoring 21 of her season-high 31 points in the second quarter to lead the Lancers to an 89-81, South Coast Conference North Division victory at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
The Pasadena City College women's basketball team snapped a 4-game losing streak overall and ended a 7-game drought in South Coast Conference North Division play by rallying to beat host East Los Angeles, 58-55, Wednesday evening.
Rio Hondo College outscored the Pasadena City College women's basketball team, 24-4, in a game-changing third quarter and it resulted in a 75-64 loss by the Lancers on Coaches v. Cancer Night at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium. The Roadrunners sent PCC to its fourth consecutive defeat.
For years, the South Coast Conference North Division has established itself perhaps the most difficult in the state. The Pasadena City College women's basketball team can attest to the highly competitive contests in the division, but more so since returning to play following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hitting appropriately a 3-point basket early on Wednesday night, point guard Maiya Villanueva became the 37th player in Pasadena City College women's basketball history to reach at least 500 points in her career in the Lancers' 69-44 win at El Camino College.
Making a return visit to Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium on Friday night was former All-State Lancer Dariel Johnson, the all-time leader in rebounds at Pasadena City College (2018-2020), who went on to play two seasons at NCAA Division I University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The Pasadena City College women's basketball team enters the year 2023 above .500 with a 9-8 overall record following its third place finish at the annual San Jose City Lady Jaguar Tournament held Dec. 27-29.
Back on Nov. 22 on the road, the Pasadena City College women's basketball team lost to Tuesday's opponent Golden West College, 60-51. PCC made sure their rematch would have a far different outcome.
Head Coach Joe Peron knows that if his Pasadena City College women's basketball team wants to return to the postseason, his returning sophomores would have to step up and make bigger contributions than the squad made over the first six games this season.
