The 2010 Baseball Hall of Fame class has been released by the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Association. This year's class is made up of four well-respected coaches both on and off the diamond. The class includes long-time Head Coach of Olney Central College (Ill.) Dennis Conley, former Head Coach at Linn-Benton (Ore.) and Yavapai College (Ariz.) Dave Dangler, and current Head Coach Bill Hamilton of Pensacola Junior College (Fla).
Dennis Conley
Head Coach
Olney Central College (Ill.)
Dennis Conley has enjoyed many years of success as the Head Coach of Olney Central College (Ill.). His successes include 26 straight winning seasons, 23 consecutive 30+ wins in a season where 13 of those seasons were made up of 40+ wins, 15 Sectional Championships, and three GRAC regular season titles.
Dennis went to high school at Charleston High School in Illinois. He attended college and played baseball at Eastern Illinois University. As player and as a coach his colleagues have regarded him as a man of integrity with an uncompromising code of ethics. Dennis took over the baseball program at Olney Central College in 1981.
Besides being the Head Coach of Olney Central College, Dennis was the Baseball Chairman for Region NJCAA's Region 24 from 1986 to 1990. He has been a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association since 1981, and has worked in a number of summer baseball camps since 1982. As well as guiding young men on the field, Dennis has also been a featured speaker at different functions over the years. Conley has been named the GRAC Conference Coach of the Year on three occasions (200, 2004, 2005).
In April of 2008, Olney Central College baseball field was dedicated as Conley Field in his honor.