After coaching and teaching for 37 years, spending the last 20 at Santa Monica College, athletic instructor Owen Hahn has decided to retire. During his career, he has won numerous championships and even seen some of his athletes go on to professional careers. Hahn, who has a bachelor's and a master's degree from UCLA in physical education, started as a high school football, swimming and track and field coach. As he moved into the community college system, his primary focus became football.
All coaches are teachers but they are hired for their coaching expertise.
And coaching isn't the easy job it appears to be from the outside. Losses kill you. They devastate anyone in the business. Building a unit out of the players can be a difficult task, particularly at the community college level where some of the players are only around for two years or less. The hardest thing is chemistry.