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Starting his 25th year of coaching, 9th year at Sacramento
City College as the Head Men’s Track and Field Coach. Coach
Dewar brings a wealth of experience, knowledge and success.
Before starting at Sacramento City College, Coach Rob was
the Assistant Head Coach for the Men’s and Women’s,
sprints/jumps coach and recruiting coordinator for the
University of California, Davis for 8 years. Before joining
UC Davis in 1996, Coach Rob was the sprints and jumps coach
at CSU-Stanislaus for 8 years.
In his ninth season at the helm, Coach Rob and his staff
continued the success from the previous 8 years with a 3rd
place finish at the 2012 Big 8 Conference Championships, 2nd
place at 2012 Nor Cal Championships and 3rd place finish at
the 2012 California Community College State Championship.
The Panther’s had 5 Conference Champions, 16 All-Conference
Honors, 6 Nor Cal Champions, 14 All-Americans and 3 State
Champion (Aaron Tombleson – Shot Put & Discus, Xavier
Williford Jr. – High Jump, 4yrs in a row in the High Jump),
2 School Records (Shot Put-58-7.5 Aaron Tombleson, 4 x 100m
Relay 39.88), 11 All-Time Top Ten Performances and 90
Personal Best for the 2012 season.
Aaron Tombleson was named Big 8 Conference Athlete of the
Year (2nd year in a row), Nor Cal Athlete of the Year,
California Community College Track and Field State Athlete
of the Year, Sacramento City College Athlete of the Year and
is a finalist for the California Community College Scholar
Athlete of the Year, which will be announced in Spring of
2013. Along with Aaron’s awards, Coach Rob was named
California Community Men’s Track and Field Coach of the Year
for the 2012 season. Additionally, Coach Rob and his
coaching staff kept the tradition of transferring 12 out of
13 sophomores onto a 4-year University/College, keeping it
at a 90% rate since taking over in 2004.
Coach Rob has coached 109 Conference Champions, 29-Nor Cal
Champions, 11-Junior College State Champions, 73-Junior
College All-Americans, 38 NCAA All-Americans, 3-NCAA
National Champions, 70 School Record Holders. He has coached
16 Conference Championships Team Titles(JC and NCAA), 4 Nor
Cal Championship team titles and 1 California Community
College State Championship while placing in the top 5 since
2006 (9th 2005, 3rd 2006, 1st 2007 first State Championship
since 1942, 2nd 2008,4th 2009, 2nd 2010, 5th, 2011 and 3rd
2012).
Previously at the 4 year level he coached 8 teams who have
placed in the top ten at the NCAA National Outdoor
Championships, three teams which placed 3rd and 4th, and in
2001, he guided the UC Davis Aggie men’s 4x100 relay to it’s
first-ever NCAA Championship berth. The squad posted a 6th
place finish (40.56) and garnered All-American distinction
and a school record. Then in 2002, Dewar performed a similar
feat when he mentored the Aggie women’s 4x100 team to its
first All-American status, placing 9th and running a school
record of 46.67. Other Dewar protégés before his tenure at
Sacramento City College, includes Sarah Chan, who took
seventh at NCAA nationals for an All-American in the triple
jump, 40-3, 2002; Jamal Bush National Champion in the men’s
triple jump, 52-8, 1994 and Josh Flexman, who garnered CCAA
Freshman of the Year honors in 2001 and All-American status.
A native of Pasadena, California, Coach Dewar graduated from
Alta Loma High School. Where he was an All-Conference prep
sprinter in the 100, 200, 400, 4x100, and 4x400 meters and
set school records in the 100, 200. He was Alta Loma’s most
valuable track athlete in each of his four years and also
competed in football as a wide receiver and free safety.
He spent his first two collegiate seasons at Mount San
Antonio College (Mt. Sac) in Walnut, California, before
transferring to California State University, Stanislaus. He
earned NCAA All-American recognition at CSU-Stanislaus
placing second in the 4x100 relay before receiving his
bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1990. Dewar has
an Associate of Arts degree from Mount San Antonio College,
a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, minor in
Recreation from CSU-Stanislaus and a Master’s degree in
Organizational-Administrative Management from University of
Phoenix in Sacramento.
He
also was the competition support crew chief for the 2000 and
2004 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials and the 2005, 2006
and 2007 NCAA Division I National Track and Field
Championships. He has been the Big 8 Track and Field/Cross
Country Conference Chair since 2008 and presently the Vice
President of California Community College Cross Country and
Track and Field Coaches Association, in two years will move
to the President of Track and Field and two years later will
become the President of Cross Country.
Coach Rob and his wife, Mary resides in Woodland with their
Relay Team of four boys: Ryland David (10), Trenton Robert
(8), Alexander John (5), Colton Jeffery (3), Coach Rob also
has a daughter Kylei (15). His wife Mary is ER and ICU nurse
for Woodland Memorial/Mercy San Juan in Sacramento and a
Flight nurse with Calstar.
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