Glendale Community College

GLENDALE - After recording a third-place finish Monday in a Western State Conference home match, the members of the Glendale Community College men's golf team immediately began to look ahead to the conference final. Glendale college had four players crack the 70s to finish with a 385 on Monday at fabled Oakmont Country Club. PHOTOS: Glendale Community College men's golf in Western State Conference match While Glendale Coach Greg Osbourne would have liked to have seen the Vaqueros win on their home course for the third season in a row, Monday's placement left the Vaqueros knowing what they will need to accomplish at the 36-hole conference tournament on Monday at Soule Park Golf Course in Ojai.

About 57% of Glendale Community College students transferred to four-year universities or earned degrees or certificates in 2011-12, beating the state average, according to data released this week. Across the state, 49.2% of students who enrolled in 2006 accomplished the same goals after six years, according to the California Community College's Chancellor's Office. The data comes from Student Success Scorecard results released this week. The new scorecard tracks success by gender, age and race across all 112 community college campuses.

WALNUT - It was a day of exceeded expectations for the Glendale Community College track and field team at Saturday's community college edition of the 55th annual Mt. San Antonio College Relays. Maybe no one came in with more acclaim and lived up to that subsequent billing than did Glendale sophomore Grace Graham-Zamudio. The state leader in the 1,500-meter run superseded her California-best time of 4 minutes, 36 seconds by winning the event in 4:34.47, which was just off the meet record time of 4:33 set by Phoenix's Trina Leopold in 1985.

Robert Bursalyan was born on April 30, 1983 in Yerevan, Armenia. His family moved to the United States in August 1989 and settled in Glendale, California. Robert was a Glendale resident for 24 years. He attended school starting from Thomas Jefferson Elementary and finishing at Glendale Community College. People who knew Robert very well knew his true passion was in movies. He incorporated quotes and punch lines from movies in his lifestyle. Robert began going on auditions for TV shows, commercials, and films.

After qualifying for the Southern California Regionals and then competing in the Western Conference Tournament last week, the members of the exhausted Glendale Community College men's tennis team made the long trek to San Diego on Tuesday. While the Vaqueros were glad to return to the playoffs for the first time in two seasons, they were not able to shake off fatigue. Fifth-seeded Glendale saw its season end with a 5-1 loss against third-seeded San Diego Mesa in a quarterfinal match.

The identities of the five finalists vying to become the next superintendent of Glendale Community College emerged this week, and all of them already hold the same job title. Among the five contenders is Pam Eddinger, president of Moorpark College since June 2008. Before starting at Moorpark, Eddinger served as executive vice president and chief academic officer for Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley Hills, Ma. Another candidate, Farley Herzek, has served as interim president of East Los Angeles College since July 2012.

With essentially a brand new cast of players, the Glendale Community College women's tennis team did something it hadn't done since 1999 - qualify for the Southern California Regionals. While the Vaqueros would have liked to have extended their season, they made strides to improve the program's outlook. "It's a tremendous reward just to get this far," Glendale assistant Coach Deo Sy said after seventh-seeded Glendale suffered a 5-0 road loss to second-seeded Mt. San Antonio College in a first-round match Tuesday.

While most of the Glendale Community College men's golf team continues to find its identity, Jin Park has been constantly elevating his level of play. Park's rise continued Monday while fighting through the fierce winds during a Western State Conference match at San Dimas Golf Course. Park shot a one-over-par 73, though Glendale finished tied for third with Santa Barbara City College with a 389. Santa Barbara won in the tiebreaker, as its sixth player finished one stroke better than Glendale's.

After advancing five singles players and a pair of doubles teams into the Western State Conference Tournament, the Glendale Community College men's tennis team saw first hand just how tough the event gets in the second day of competition Saturday. When all was said and done, Gaspar Macalutas was the only Vaqueros singles player to definitively push on toward the Southern California Regional Tournament, which is set for April 25-28 as part of the Ojai Invitational, at Ventura College.