Hall of Fame
Dick Reynolds is the most successful basketball coach in the history of the Ohio Athletic Conference, winning conference championships in four decades, earning nine OAC Coach of the Year awards, and finishing with a 653-426 record. He guided the men's team for 40 seasons from 1972-2012.
The Cardinals advanced into the NCAA Division III Tournament 13 times under Reynolds’ tutelage, winning Otterbein’s first and only national championship in 2002 and reaching the Final Four in 1981 and 1991. The Cardinals also won or shared the regular- season title 11 times and won the post-season tournament eight times. In 2009, Coach Reynolds was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame. In addition to his basketball duties,
Coach Reynolds served as the director of men’s athletics since 1992. He was also placed in charge of women’s athletics in 1998 after Otterbein combined both men’s and women’s athletics into one department.
As a student-athlete at Otterbein, Reynolds earned 12 letters, four each in football, basketball and track and field. He earned all-conference honors at both quarterback and defensive back in football, and also in basketball. He held the school record for interceptions, seven in one season, and pole vault, 14-4, for several years. Reynolds also received the Augspurger-Ballenger Cup.
