Pima College baseball, softball coaches are both retiring

Hall of Fame coaches Armando Quiroz and Rich Alday have retired from coaching at Pima College. 

Pima College Hall of Fame coaches Armando Quiroz (softball) and Rich Alday (baseball) have officially retired. Both leave with 500-plus career victories at PCC.

— Greg Hansen (@ghansen711) June 19, 2018

Quiroz won exactly 500 softball games from 2008-18 at PCC. Alday won 517 games at Pima in two terms, from 1974-89 and in 2018, after he returned to PCC.

Both men are in the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame.

Quiroz coached Flowing Wells High School to state championships in 1999, 2000 and 2002.

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Alday, a former Tucson High School state championship quarterback, won five ACCAC baseball championships at PCC and then spent almost 20 years as the head coach of the New Mexico Lobos.

Quiroz missed the last few weeks of the 2018 softball season to have knee replacement surgery. The Aztecs went 35-23. They finished No. 3 in the NJCAA finals in 2013. Quiroz's daughter, Rebekah, is an Aztecs assistant coach.

Alday was 21-31 in his second term as Pima's baseball coach. He also coached softball at Ironwood Ridge. 

Both moves appear to unrelated to Pima's decision to cut its athletic budget starting in 2019. The school announced last week that it would be cutting football and either golf or tennis in order to reach its new budget figure.