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unusual facts about West Coast Conference



Dane Suttle

Suttle played for the Waves from 1979–83 and was a two-time West Coast Conference all-conference pick and the 1983 co-player of the year with teammate Orlando Phillips.

Kevin Pangos

Kevin Joseph Pangos (born January 26, 1993) is a Canadian college basketball player for the Gonzaga Bulldogs of the West Coast Conference.

LaRoy Doss

He was the first African-American player in Saint Mary's College history and their first to be named West Coast Conference player of the year.

Mid-major

Since its Elite Eight appearance in 1999, it has successfully established itself as the closest thing to a major program in a mid-major conference, making the tournament field in every year since, even in years it failed to win the West Coast Conference tournament.

Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball

The Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball team represents Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, competing in the West Coast Conference of the NCAA.

Stephen Negoesco

After his retirement from coaching men's soccer, Negoesco was inducted to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2003, National Soccer Coaches Association of America hall of fame in 2003, joining his former coach, Gus Donoghue, Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (BASHOF) in 2009 and the West Coast Conference Hall of Honor (WCC) in 2010.


see also

Foothill College

Karl Zinsman Jr., American musician, All West-Coast Conference football center at Foothill 1995.

John Vance Cheney

In 1887 he assumed the position of librarian of the Free Public Library of San Francisco, where he oversaw the openings of the system's first branch libraries and hosted the first west coast conference of the American Library Association in 1891.