Bio
Inducted 2007
baseball
Terry Ford grew up in Montclair, graduating from Montclair High School in 1967. His career at Chaffey College began that year playing 2 seasons for Howard Lowder. In his first season as a Panther, the team won the conference championship for the first time in 85 years. The 1969 team finished 2nd in the conference and Ford hit 270 despite playing the entire season with a compound fractured, dislocated thumb.
He graduated from Chaffey with an AA in Social Science and transferred to Cal Poly where he played for John Scolinos before the hand injury forced his retirement as a player. Always a baseball player, Ford returned to Chaffey, hired as Howard Lowder’s first assistant coach in 1970. That year the team again won the conference title. Ford returned to his Montclair community roots and coached Montclair American Legion and Ontario Connie Mack, bringing 11 players to Chaffey College.
After college, Ford began his career at Fluor Corporation where he has been for 32 years, now overseeing 5 offices in the US and Canada and providing direction of 15 international offices on 6 continents. His position as Executive Director of Human resources has allowed him to travel to 28 countries in Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, the former Soviet Union and Latin America.
Although busy with Fluor, Ford found time to stay active in athletics while raising his children, Kim and Greg. He co-founded the first girls youth basketball league in the Saddleback Valley where he coached for 6 years with 16 girls going on to play college basketball. He also coached club soccer, and of course, baseball from Little League though Colt League. In 7 years, he won 7 championships!
Between traveling for work and with his family, Terry enjoys watching his son coach volleyball, raising shelties and playing golf and of course, following baseball.