Tish Husak


Husak playing golf at Spyglass last June
Photo credit: Bill Husak

Tish Husak has been teaching a low impact aerobic class at CSULB for 29 years. Husak moved from New York to attend grad school at Texas A&M where she taught her first class “Figure Control for college students,” she said. “I was assigned to the class in grad school and feel in love with it.” A year later, her husband, received a job at Long Beach State as a professor in the Physical Education Department. She too applied for a job and received the same part time teaching job that she has now. Husak said it’s “the right place for me” continuing to explain that working part time allowed her raise her boys, picking them up from school and watching their sports games. The job “worked out well as a mom and a profession,” said Husak.
 Husak has been an active marathon runner for many years. One of her most proud marathons was when she ran in the very first Long Beach marathon in 1982. “I won the race,” Husak said proudly of her accomplishment. She is currently signed up to run in the Nike Women’s Marathon on October 16 in San Francisco.