Now in his fourth season, Joe Abing will be in charge of the men’s swimming squad at Cerritos College. After directing the team last season to a 4-3 record, the team has put together a  streak of three consecutive winning seasons.

In three years under Abing, the men’s swimming team has compiled a 17-4 conference record, with a championship in 2005 after placing second in his first season. During the 2005 season, Abing was voted the South Coast Conference Coach of the Year. In addition to winning the conference championship that year, four individuals have competed at the State Championships. Robbie Garcia won two state titles for Cerritos, one in the 200-yard freestyle and in the 500-yard freestyle. In just three seasons, five school records have been broken, while eight swimmers and one diver have earned All-American status. Prior to coming to Cerritos College, Abing spent the previous eight years coaching swimming at Ventura High School, and led them to their first league championship in 1997 and 1998, and coached seven All-Americans.

Abing played water polo and competed in swimming at South Pasadena High, where he started on the 1989 CIF Championship water polo team. In his senior year, the swim team was the runner-up in the CIF championships. While in high school, Abing earned All-League, All-CIF and was named to the San Gabriel Valley All-Star Team. He moved on to Cuesta College, where he played water polo and swam for Terry Bowen, who is an alumnus of Cerritos College. Abing would eventually graduate from UCLA, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology in 1995. In 2002, he graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a Master’s in Physical Education. In addition to his duties with the men’s aquatics program, Abing also teaches a full load of physical education classes.

Glen Myer has been on the aquatics staff at Cerritos College since 1998, with the introduction of the women’s water polo program. This spring, he will serve as the diving coach for the men’s and women’s swimming programs.

Myer began diving at the age of nine at the John Riley School of Diving in Downey, CA, then at 15 years of age, he joined the Lakewood Dive Club.  He continued to compete at Warren High School and Cerritos College.  Myer also has competed as a swimmer and water polo player (Warren High, Cerritos College, Cal State Los Angeles) and has coached these sports at Fountain Valley High School, Gahr High School and Cerritos College.

Myer graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a minor in Physical Education at California State University at Dominguez Hills.  He earned his Master of Science degree in Physical Education at Azusa Pacific University.

Myer and his wife Audrey have been married for 23 years and have two children—Marci (21), a senior at University of Colorado at Boulder and Nick (18), a senior attending  school in Huntington Beach.  Both of the Myer children are avid swimmers and water polo players.  Coach Myer is still active in water polo and has played on various club and master’s level teams in the Orange County and Los Angeles areas.