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Ohio Instructors
Joe Balogh is currently the President of the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association and head basketball coach at Ontario High School. He is currently the Career Based Intervention Program coordinator and is in his 25th year of teaching. He is a 1980 graduate of Edgerton High School and received his bachelor's degree from Ohio Northern University in 1984 and has taken graduate study classes through Ashland University. While at ONU, he served as a student assistant under head coach Gale Daugherty and assistant Joe Campoli. He began his teaching career at Fort Loramie as a junior high reading teacher and then became the varsity assistant at Ontario High School in 1984 and was then named the varsity boys' basketball coach in 1985. Joe is a five time District 6 Coach of the Year and was the OHSCA Division III Coach of the Year in 1995. Joe resides in Ontario with his wife Diane and sons, Steven and Blake.
Jon Bennett is currently the President of the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association. He is a teacher of Technology Education at Greenville High School and received the Distinguished Service Award and Outstanding Program Award from the Ohio Technology Education Association. Jon has coached high school baseball the past 21 years and the last 9 years as Granville's head coach. He was the Ohio Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2002. He has conducted a number of clinics and been a speaker at the district, state and national coaches conferences. EVERY former player is currently in college or graduated with a degree.
Lee Day is the current Head Baseball Coach at Lebanon High School in southwest Ohio. He graduated with a teaching degree in Mathematics in 1979 from Ohio Northern University. In 1983 he earned his M. Ed. in guidance counseling from Xavier University. He coached sophomore basketball one year and football for nine years. He was the head football coach for three years from 1985 - 87. With the 2004 season, Lee will have coached baseball at Lebanon for 25 years, the last 23 as the head coach. During his time as head coach, the Lebanon baseball program has built one of the nicest high school baseball complexes in the state. He has also been coaching golf during the fall since 1988, serving as the head coach since 2002. Lee taught math full time for four years and then served as a part-time guidance counselor along with his teaching duties the next seven years. Since 1990, he has been a full time counselor. He has been very instrumental in developing the high school master schedule which incorporates block scheduling to go along with the traditional semester and yearly classes offered in their 8 period day. He also served as the Lebanon Education Association treasurer from 1994 - 2003. Outside the high school arena, Lee has also been very active. In 1995, Lee formed (and still runs) a traveling youth baseball league for the Warren County area. He has also been very involved in the Miami Valley Baseball Coaches Associations for the past 25 years, serving as its' President for three terms from 1994 - 96. In 2000 he was inducted into the MVBCA Hall of Fame. He began serving as the Dayton area Southwest District Rep to the state Baseball Coaches Association in 2002. During his spare time, Lee has made a pretty good hobby of officiating basketball. The 2003 - 04 season was his 24th year of officiating. He has worked high school games throughout southwest Ohio including the OSHAAA State Tournaments in 1997 & 2002. He also worked at the Division III collegiate level for 8 years. He is a member of the Middletown Basketball Officials Association having served as vice-president for 6 years and currently serves as its' Hall of Fame Chairman for the past 11 years.
Tom Held is the current Head Baseball Coach (1999 - present) at the Defiance High School in Northwest Ohio. In 1984, he earned his teaching degree in Comprehensive Business Education from Defiance College. In 1995, he earned his Masters of Education in Administration from the University of Toledo. He coached basketball for 13 years at Elmwood and Bryan High School. With the upcoming 2005 season, Tom has coached baseball for 19 years and 18 as a head coach at Elmwood, Bryan and Defiance. He was the Ohio Coach of the Year in 1999. Tom is also a member of the Acme Baseball Board of Directors. He has had the fortune to have over 50 former players go on to play college baseball and presently has three playing professionally. Tom resides in Defiance with his wife, Deanne, and has three children, Chayse, 21, Cassidy, 9, and Cal, 4.
Jeff was born, raised and attended school in Archbold, OH, a small town in northwest Ohio. He earned his bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo in 1986, majoring in Elementary Education. He received his Masters in Sports Management from Cleveland State University in 2002. Jeff is currently entering his 18th year as a sixth grade teacher in the Westlake School System, a suburb on the west side of Cleveland. He has coached basketball at the high school level for eleven years, and junior high football for six. Jeff will be starting his 16th year as the Head Baseball Coach at Westlake High. His teams at Westlake have not had a losing season over the last 12 season. He has served on the board of directors for both the Greater Cleveland Baseball Coaches Association and the Ohio High School Baseball State Coaches Association. Jeff currently resides in Avon, OH with his wife of eleven years, Julie, and their beautiful golden retriever, Molson.
Mike is currently the Athletic Administrator for the Alliance City School District. This is his fourth year in that position. Under his guidance, the Alliance programs have seen a renaissance over the last 4 years, which also has seen Alliance go through three different leagues, finally resting in the Northeastern Buckeye Conference. Before Alliance, Mike taught social studies for 8 years, and coached football at Massillon Washington, Canton McKinley, Canton GlenOak, and Carrollton high schools. Mike has a comprehensive secondary education degree from Kent State University and a Masters degree from Ashland University in Educational Administration. The 1990 graduate from Massillon Washington High School is also president of the Eastern Ohio Wrestling League. Mike was part of the 1998 Division I state football championship coaching staff at Canton McKinley, and at Alliance has witnessed the school's first ever playoff victory in football, and a Division II state track championship for the boy's team, along with a district championship in boy's soccer. Mike also has served as tournament manager for the girl's Division I basketball tournament, boy's Division II soccer tournament, girl's Division II softball tournament, and the Alliance "Top Gun" wrestling tournament. Mike is married to Jennifer, and has two daughters, Hayden and Gracie.
Scott is presently in his third year as a District Director of Athletics for Sidney City Schools. Sidney is a DI size school and member of the Greater Western Ohio Conference (GWOC). Scott is a 1985 graduate of Ohio Northern University where he obtained a teaching degree in Social Studies and was a team captain and letterman in basketball. He has a combined 20 years of interscholastic and intercollegiate administrative, teaching and coaching experience. He started his teaching and coaching career in 1984 as a student teacher at Lima Senior High School while being the Junior Varsity Boys Basketball Coach at Ada High School. In 1985 he became a social studies teacher and Head Boys Basketball Coach at Kyger Creek High School (now River Valley) near Gallipolis, where he stayed for three seasons before moving on to Kenton High School as Head Boys Basketball Coach for two seasons. In 1990, he accepted a position as a graduate assistant in the men's basketball program at Ohio University where he obtained a Master of Science Degree in Health and Physical Education and Athletic Administration. After completing his master's degree in 1991, Stemple became a physical education instructor and Head Boys Basketball Coach at St. Francis de Sales High School in Toledo. In 1994, Scott would leave high school teaching and coaching as he moved on to Wilmington College as an Assistant Professor in the Department of HPE and Head Mens Basketball and Head Mens Tennis Coach. Scott is a member of both the Ohio and the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. He is married and has four daughters.
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