Pasadena City College Postpones 2026-27 Swim Season

3C2A Pasadena City College has determined to postpone the 2026-27 swimming season. The resolution additionally postpones the 2026-27 water polo season.

In a submit on Instagram from savepccswim, the lads’s crew was knowledgeable of the choice to postpone the season and is asking supporters to sign a petition to provide the crew its season again, reasonably than asking for donations.

Below is the complete submit.

The PCC Men’s Swim Team has been knowledgeable that our 2026–2027 season has been postponed. We are sharing this not out of frustration, however out of affection for this program and our want to proceed competing for Pasadena City College.

This previous season, we gave every little thing we had as student-athletes. Our 200 medley relay earned a South Coast Conference Championship title and went on to compete on the California Community College State Championships, the best degree of competitors within the 3C2A. A swimmer additionally certified for states in two particular person occasions. We are happy with what we achieved, and we consider this program has a future value preventing for.

We have began a petition asking PCC Athletics to revive our season. We compete not only for ourselves, however for our faculty and our neighborhood. All we would like is the chance to signify PCC.

If you consider student-athletes should compete, please signal the petition, we don’t want any cash donations, hyperlink in bio.

#PCCSwim #PasadenaCityCollege #StudentAthletes #CommunityCollege #3C2ASwim

In a conversation on Reddit, a moderator, who seems to be a member of the crew, talked about that the college let go of head coach Terry Stoddard for not bringing in sufficient ladies to the ladies’s swimming and diving crew and girls’s water polo.

The petition web page famous that each the lads’s and girls’s groups shouldn’t have their seasons taken away for causes past their management.

“Despite these accomplishments, PCC Athletics let our head coach go because he was unable to recruit a full women’s roster, and then decided to postpone the entire aquatics program for the 2026-2027 season. Neither the men’s nor the women’s team was responsible for that. Both teams showed up and gave everything they had all season long,” the petition page reads. “This is a resource that is being taken away from us. We are student-athletes who have earned the right to compete, and we are advocating for the chance to continue doing that. Competing for PCC is something we have worked for, and it should not be taken away when we did nothing wrong.”

The males’s crew lately completed twenty eighth on the 3C2A State Championships final month. Just a number of weeks earlier, they completed fifth on the South Coast Conference Championships, that fifth place crew end included a win within the 200 medley relay.