Rob Vance
Physical Education Instructor, Men's Head Baseball Coach
Contact Information
Chair: Health and Physical Education Department
rvance@cu-portland.edu
503 280-8691
Background
Rob enters his tenth year at Concordia after spending eleven years in the public school system teaching kindergartners through seniors in high school. Rob taught a variety of subjects including physical education, weight training, health, fifth grade math, journalism, and psychology.
Rob is a 1987 graduate of Pacific University with a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education and minors in Health and Coaching. While at Pacific, he played football and baseball. In 1994, Vance completed his Master's Degree in Exercise and Sports Science at Portland State University.
Over the past ten years, Rob has taught a variety of subjects including Exercise Physiology and Introduction to Health, Physical Education and Sport. He also supervises student teachers in the College of Education. In addition to teaching in the department, Rob serves as the Department Chair for Health and Human Services/Health and Physical Education. Rob also enters his tenth year as the university's Head Baseball Coach.
He and his wife of eighteen years, Diane, live in Northeast Portland.