{"id":7816,"date":"2012-08-28T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2012-08-28T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:33:55","slug":"7816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2012\/08\/28\/7816\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartan Spotlight: K.C. Gan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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K.C. Gan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When K.C. Gan looks back on his long career playing volleyball, he laughs and calls the fact that he was on the Malaysian National Team at 18 years old \u201cscary.\u201d
\nAt 61, he works full time as a manager of capital equipment and service contracts for the Kettering Health Network. But five days a week, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. from August to the first week of November, he coaches the Sinclair women\u2019s volleyball team.
\nThat\u2019s not counting games on Saturdays and recruiting in the off season. It all adds up: in 2011, the team had an Ohio Community College Athletics Conference (OCCAC) record of 8-4 and an overall record of 18-17.
\nHe himself had to retire from playing due to an ankle and knee problem; but up until 2005, he played in the USA Senior Olympic tournament and USA Adult Volleyball tournament.
\n\u201cCoaching was always in my blood,\u201d he says, \u201cbut there wasn’t always time for it.\u201d
\nWhen Gan moved to America in 1981, he had been thinking about the greater opportunity for schooling, not volleyball. It was only when his daughter Ashley became interested in playing that he started to coach again.
\nAt first he coached the Gem City Junior Olympics clubs (currently the Dayton Jr. Club), but when the job opened up at Sinclair, he took it. Now he’s coached women\u2019s volleyball at Sinclair for 14 years.
\nThe Sinclair Athletic Department has a policy of \u201cThree Cs\u201d which Gan said stands for classroom, community service and competition. The policy coincides with the one he has always had, which is that studies come first and that \u201cvolleyball comes last.\u201d
\nYou might not suspect it if you looked at his record. He’s been playing volleyball since 1965 and played for the Malaysian National Team for nine years. He played at the Southeast Asian games, the USA Open Tournament and USA Master Tournament. He won Coach of the Year twice in the OCCAC, and some of his players are among the top ranked in Division II of the National Junior College Athletic Association.
\nBut Gan is more concerned with his players being good people.
\n\u201cWith coaching, I’m trying to give talent back to the community,\u201d Gan says. He calls his current batch of players \u201cgood,\u201d meaning good people and not just good players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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