BUTTE VALLEY — Butte College has hired a new director of athletics, as well added a dean title.

Robert Bishop returns to Butte County as the new Dean of Kinesiology and Athletics at Butte College. His official first day was July 21.

Bishop, a 1996 graduate of Chico State, spent the past eight years as the athletic director at Palma High School in Salinas after 11 years as the Cal State Monterey Bay men’s basketball coach (2006-’17). Before that he spent six years as the associate men’s basketball coach at Northern Arizona (’02-’08) after beginning his coaching career as an assistant coach at Chico State from 1996-2002.

“Not only did I go to school here, but to this day I tell people I wouldn’t change schools. My experience here in this community, I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” Bish

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