Bio

Joe Brennan guided the Comets to championships in the old South Central Conference in 1958-59, 1960-61, 1961-62 and 1962-63, and his 1958-59 team placed third in the California State Tournament, which had a third-place game for many years in what at the time was a Final Eight bracket. As Palomar's coach he produced such players as John Fairchild (BYU All-American, Los Angeles Lakers), Jon Stanley (BYU basketball and volleyball player, two-time U.S. Olympian in volleyball), Dr. Ted Repa (Stanford) and Jay Bunker (BYU). Doubling as the Comets' track & field coach, he coached John Tushaus, future NCAA javelin champion at the University of Arizona who went on to break the American record. Fairchild, Stanley, Repa and Tushaus all have been inducted into the Palomar Hall of Fame. As President of the California Junior College Basketball Coaches Association, Brennan was the guiding force for the U.S. Olympic Committee's adding the California JC All-Stars to the 1964 USA Olympic Trials. Dr. Brennan later was the President of Feather River Community College in Quincy, CA. He is retired and lives in Quincy.