Hilgendorf named P.E. Administrator of the Year

COSTA MESA - Jane Hilgendorf, Dean of Orange Coast College’s

Physical Education and Athletics Division, has been named the Physical

Education Administrator of the Year by the State Community College

Organization of Physical Educators.

The Corona del Mar resident will be honored at an awards brunch on March

24 at the 2000 Commission on Athletics Convention, held at the Wyndham

Palm Springs Hotel.

Hilgendorf, 58, has been OCC’s dean and athletic director for the past

year and this past spring, she was selected to participate in the

prestigious National Institute for Leadership Development “Leaders 2000”

program.

This year-long international leadership program is designed to expand and

enhance the skills of educational administrators and faculty members.

Hilgendorf oversees a division that includes 23 different intercollegiate

men’s and women’s athletic teams and nearly 600 athletes.

OCC has won the Orange Empire Conference’s Sports Supremacy Award the

past two seasons in a row and 19 of the last 21.

As Dean of Physical Education and Athletics, Hilgendorf directs a staff

of 25 full-time faculty members, 50 part-time instructors and 10

classified (non-teaching) staff members.