Bio

In his 36th year, Robert Lewis officially retires as Pasadena City College's sports information specialist position on July 1, 2026.

A winner of numerous awards for his media guides by the Community College Public Relations Organization (CCPRO), Lewis helped update the history of the PCC sports teams including creating the school's athletic website in 2004. As the Athletics webmaster/editor, he regularly updates the records, achievements, biographies, statistics and news for the Lancers' 16 intercollegiate sports teams. 

In May, after serving as master's of ceremonies for the well-attended 2026 Pasadena City College Sports Hall of Fame, Lewis himself was entered into the prestigious HOF as the first non-athlete or coach ever inducted.

In 2016, Lewis helped launch PCC's Presto website at pcclancers.com. He constantly keeps up-to-date news on Athletics social media site at @PCCAthletics, a Twitter/X site that now has more than 2,500 Lancers followers. 

Lewis' work extends to serving as chairman of the PCC Sports Hall of Fame. Besides being the event planner, selection committee coordinator, nominee researcher, and general historian for athletics.

Lewis is proud of helping PCC student-athletes receive more than $300 thousand over the past 20 years in various scholarships offered by PCC through the Elizabeth Jensen fund and other scholarships geared toward Lancers student-athletes.

He was honored as one of three finalists nominated for the 2018 Risser Award for Outstanding Support for Education. In 2023, his writing work was recognized as a finalist for Best Online Sports Story by the Los Angeles Press Club. 

In 2008, Lewis received the prestigious Brass Top Award for career achievement by the California Community College Sports Information Association (CCCSIA). He is one of the founding fathers of the SIA and is a long-time executive board member and treasurer, regularly participating in the association's meetings and affairs. He has regularly worked at the state level as a SID at various 3C2A championship events, including women's and men's volleyball, swimming and diving, women's badminton, water polo, basketball and soccer. 

Before coming to PCC, he served as SID at West Los Angeles College (1989-1991) and was a prep/community college sportswriter at the Daily Breeze, Evening Outlook, and Los Angeles Times. Lewis also worked as a part-time sports producer at KCOP-Channel 13 News and served as statistician for NHL Radio on Westwood One. 

Lewis earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at California State University-Northridge in 1989. Lewis previously attended Santa Monica College and was a 2-year letterman as a relief pitcher on the Corsairs baseball team in 1985-86. He also served as sports editor of the award-winning student newspaper--The Corsair.

Lewis lives with wife Vicky as residents of Burbank. Their youngest daughter Lilly was an All-Pacific League First Team softball player at Burroughs High, an All-South Coast Conference performer for an El Camino College that finished a school-best third place at the 3C2A State Championships in 2025, and now a scholarship-student-athlete at NAIA Doane University in Nebraska. Lewis' oldest daughter is Olivia, and he has three grandsons in Matthew, Benjamin, and Keith.