One of the reasons Pima College women’s basketball coach Todd Holthaus has been among the leading coaches in Tucson for the last 10 years is that he isn’t afraid of a challenge. He took his (then) 15th-ranked Aztecs to Peoria, Illinois, last week to play national-level JC teams from Iowa, Michigan and Illinois, even though it required a travel schedule that would bow most coaches. The Aztecs left Phoenix on a 1 a.m., flight to St. Louis, drove three hours to Peoria, arriving at sunrise, and then played the first of three games that day at 1 p.m. And now it gets even tougher: Pima resumes ACCAC play this week against two of the top programs in the country, Arizona Western and Central Arizona.