For 37 years, Myron Tarkanian served as a physical education instructor and a success story as a head coach in a variety of Pasadena City College sports programs. 

He has the distinction of coaching conference titles in football (1974), men’s tennis (1992, 1998), women’s tennis (2000), and won three consecutive men’s soccer South Coast Conference titles (1999-2001) as the Lancers administrative head coach.

The younger brother of Court of Champions inductee and basketball coaching legend Jerry Tarkanian, Myron coached the last undefeated PCC football team in 1974 at 10-0-1 when the Lancers captured the Metropolitan Conference championship and were JC Grid-Wire regular season national champions.

A coach in five different decades here, Tarkanian retired from PCC in 2004.