{"id":230,"date":"2012-06-20T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=230"},"modified":"2024-11-01T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:58:56","slug":"basketball-coach-will-move-to-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/basketball-coach-will-move-to-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Coach Will Move to Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/THL_Passage_Rob_01-e1340305888186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/THL_Passage_Rob_01-e1340305888186-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Passage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/THL_Passage_Rob_01-e1340305888186-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/THL_Passage_Rob_01-e1340305888186.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Passage, Men\u2019s Basketball Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rob Passage \u201993, Kalamazoo College\u2019s head men\u2019s basketball coach since 2002-03, announced this week that he is leaving to become the\u00a0athletic facilities and operations manager at Willamette University\u00a0in Salem, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely grateful to Rob for his hard work, dedication, and commitment to Kalamazoo College,\u201d said Kristen Smith, Director of Athletics, \u201cHe was a mentor to student-athletes and coaches, not just in basketball, but in many of our programs. He will be missed, but we wish him all the best in his new position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his head coaching duties, Passage served as the assistant athletic director for operations and facilities and assistant professor of physical education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy years at Kalamazoo have been filled with great friends, colleagues, and student-athletes,\u201d Passage said, \u201cK has provided me with so many great experiences since I first stepped onto campus as a student in the fall of 1989. I can only hope that I have been able to positively impact the K community even just a portion of how much it impacted my life. Kalamazoo College will always be a special place to me, but it is time for me to move on to other challenges and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A search for his replacement will begin immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Passage \u201993, Kalamazoo College\u2019s head men\u2019s basketball coach since 2002-03, announced this week that he is leaving to become the\u00a0athletic facilities and operations manager at Willamette University\u00a0in Salem, Oregon. \u201cWe are extremely grateful to Rob for his hard work, dedication, and commitment to Kalamazoo College,\u201d said Kristen Smith, Director of Athletics, \u201cHe was a 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coach since 2002-03, announced this week that he is leaving to become the\u00a0athletic facilities and operations manager at Willamette University\u00a0in Salem, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely grateful to Rob for his hard work, dedication, and commitment to Kalamazoo College,\u201d said Kristen Smith, Director of Athletics, \u201cHe was a mentor to student-athletes and coaches, not just in basketball, but in many of our programs. He will be missed, but we wish him all the best in his new position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his head coaching duties, Passage served as the assistant athletic director for operations and facilities and assistant professor of physical education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy years at Kalamazoo have been filled with great friends, colleagues, and student-athletes,\u201d Passage said, \u201cK has provided me with so many great experiences since I first stepped onto campus as a student in the fall of 1989. I can only hope that I have been able to positively impact the K community even just a portion of how much it impacted my life. Kalamazoo College will always be a special place to me, but it is time for me to move on to other challenges and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A search for his replacement will begin immediately.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23573,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/23573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}