Sinclair Community College women\u2019s basketball coach Jeff Dillon earned his 100th career win on Dec. 1 against Cedarville University, a win that Dillon said was years in the making.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne-hundred wins is great,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cI owe a lot of people for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dillon credits the players he\u2019s gotten to work with, the administration and his wife for his success. Looking back he said it was his basketball coach at Fairmont West High School that initially got him interested in coaching in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never was a player of any magnitude at all. Maybe he saw what a horrible player I was and looked at me and said, \u2018Hey why don\u2019t you try coaching since you love it so much,\u2019\u201d Dillon said jokingly on Dec. 3.<\/p>\n
After high school, Dillon attended Sinclair and then transferred to Wright State University, where he earned his master\u2019s degree in Education. At Wright State, Dillon got the chance to work under coach Ralph Underhill.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Underhill) is really the one that lit my fire as far as getting into coaching,\u201d Dillon said \u201cHe really gave me the passion for recruiting that I think I have. He went at recruiting hard and taught me that if you\u2019re going to be a successful coach you better surround yourself with successful people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dillon became the head coach of the Lady Pride in the fall of 2002 when coach of 26 years, Linda O\u2019Keefe, became ill with cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a blur the way things came about. I got a call from (the athletic director at the time) coach (Norma) Dycus and came down to interview on a Monday. By the following Wednesday they offered me the job and then the following Monday practiced started,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cCoach O\u2019Keefe had the program for 26 years, so I basically got a program that was already in place and already doing great things. I was very fortunate; I was able to piggyback off a lot of her hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dillon said that he can\u2019t put into words what it means to win his 100th <\/sup>game as head coach, but said it was very satisfying. When asked what he enjoys most about coaching, Dillon turned his head and pointed to his team.<\/p>\n \u201cWorking with these girls,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cThis team is sitting 6-1 (as of Dec. 3). They have an overall team GPA of 3.27. I\u2019m actually more proud of what these girls accomplished in the classroom than I am of 100 wins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sinclair Community College women\u2019s basketball coach Jeff Dillon earned his 100th career win on Dec. 1 against Cedarville University, a win that Dillon said was years in the making. \u201cOne-hundred wins is great,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cI owe a lot of people for that.\u201d Dillon credits the players he\u2019s gotten to work with, the administration and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1392,830,1402],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-basketball","tag-coach-dillon","tag-samuel-huist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-WI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}