Skeie named Fitness Instructor of the Year

COSTA MESA - Leon Skeie, an Orange Coast College professor of

physical education and athletics, has been named Fitness/Exercise

Physiology Instructor of the Year by the State Community College

Organization of Physical Educators (SCOPE).

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

24 at the 2000 Commission on Athletics Convention at the Wyndham Palm

Springs Hotel.

The SCOPE Award is designed to recognize outstanding contributions made

by a community college physical educator.

Skeie, 58, a member of OCC’s faculty for 27 years and a member of the

Daily Pilot Hall of Fame, has served at the college’s athletic trainer

and strength coach for 12 years.

While at OCC, Skeie has established several centers, services and

programs on campus, including OCC’s Sports Medicine Center, an exercise

science lab, a strength lab and the college’s adapted physical education

program.

Skeie was named the National Community College Teacher of the Year in

1973 and was twice named the National Community College Trainer of the

Year in 1980 and ’84. He was also honored by the National Football

Foundation Hall of Fame as an Outstanding Contributor to Athletics.