Orange Coast College Athletic Director Barbara Bond After a 22-year career coaching the women's soccer team, Barbara Bond has put away her clipboard and will guide the athletic department at Orange Coast College. Bond takes over for another former Coast coach, Fred Hokanson, who retired on June 30, 2004.
Bond takes over an athletic program with a resume as impressive as the one she boasts. The Coast athletic program has won the Orange Empire Conference Supremacy award 22 of the past 24 seasons and the state supremacy award three times.
She will be in charge as the Coast athletic program heads in an exciting new direction with no less than four renovated or brand new facilities being constructed in the next two years, including the new soccer field that was completed in August of 2004.
As head coach of the women's soccer program, Bond guided the Bucs to seven conference titles. State playoff qualifiers in six of her final eight seasons, Bond's Pirates won five conference crowns in six years from 1984 to 1989, capping that run with the state championship in 1989, which was her 100th career win. OCC's last conference title came in 1997. She finished with an overall record of 276-113-48, winning nearly 70 percent of the games her Pirates played.
Though she led Coast to the 1989 state title, Bond's best season percentage-wise, was the preceding year, when the Pirates went 20-1-1 and ran off an 18-match winning streak before dropping the state title game to Fresno City. OCC avenged that defeat in 1989, winning the South Coast Conference crown and returning to the state title finals at El Camino College, where the Lady Pirates downed Cosumnes River, 1-0.
Bond nearly matched that season in 2002, guiding the Bucs to a school-record 21 wins against just two defeats and two draws, falling in the regional finals to Cypress.
Victorious in nearly 70 percent of her matches, Bond likes to win, but she believes that strong team unity is just as important. She also emphasizes a strong conditioning program.
She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Long Beach State University, where she swam and competed in volleyball. A Southern California native, she lives in Laguna Beach with her two children.
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