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For Immediate Release June 23, 2008 Contact Bob Goldring, Assistant Commissioner UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON’S MIKE KELLY PRESENTED OHSAA ETHICS AND INTEGRITY AWARD COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio High School Athletic Association recently presented former University of Dayton football coach Mike Kelly with the OHSAA Ethics and Integrity Award. Kelly, who retired last fall after completing his 27th season as Dayton’s , was honored during the OHSAA’s 16th Annual Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Banquet, which was held June 20 in Columbus. The Ethics and Integrity Award is presented annually to an Ohioan who has displayed outstanding ethical behavior and integrity in performing his duties and is a role model for others. Mike began at Dayton in 1977 as a defensive coordinator under Head Coach Rick Carter. After winning the 1980 NCAA Division III National Championship, Carter moved on to coach at Holy Cross and Kelly was named Dayton’s head coach. During Kelly’s first 12 years as head coach at UD, the Flyers made eight trips to the NCAA Division III playoffs and reached the national title game four times, winning the National Championship in 1989 with a 13-0-1 record. In addition, the Flyers were the NCAA 1-AA Mid-Major National Champions in 2002 and 2007 when they compiled 11-1 records both years. Since the Pioneer Football League began in 1993, Dayton won six outright championships and tied for the title three other times under Kelly. He earned seven national and seven league coach-of-the-year awards. In Kelly’s 27 years at UD he compiled a 246-54-1 record. His .819 winning percentage is the fourth- highest percentage ever for coaches with at least 25 years experience behind Florida A&M’s , ’s and Michigan’s Fielding Yost. When he won his 200th career game in 2002, he was the second-fastest coach in NCAA history to reach that plateau. He obtained 200 wins in 242 games, which was faster than Joe , , and . The Flyers produced 44 Academic All-Americans and 84 first time All-Americans under Kelly. He holds the Dayton mark for longest head coaching tenure in school history. Kelly is an Ohio native, having graduated from Milton-Union High School in West Milton. He played football and baseball for four years at Manchester (Ind.) College and earned a master’s degree at Ball State. He was a high school teacher and coach for six years before beginning his coaching career at Hanover (Ind.) College as an assistant in 1975.

Mike and his wife, Jeanne, reside in Kettering and have two daughters, Jodie Beth and Nikki. Although he retired as head coach, Kelly continues to work in Dayton’s athletic department as associate director of athletics. He was inducted into the university’s athletic hall of fame in February. The Ethics and Integrity Award recipient is recommended by the OHSAA Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Committee and approved by the Association’s Board of Control. Some of the previous winners have been: Former U.S. Senator John H. Glenn Jr. (1997), whose distinguised career has included military service, the U.S. space program, corporate management and local and national politics; (1998), executive director of the Alumni Association at The , where, as a student, he was the only football player in history to win the twice; Wayne Embry (2000), an NBA executive who is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; Jo Ann Davidson (2001), the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 through 2000 and the first woman to serve in that role; Bill Hosket (2002), a former basketball standout at Dayton Belmont and Ohio State who also played on Olympic Gold Medal and NBA World Championship teams; (2003), head football coach at Mount Union who has led the school to nine NCAA Division III National Championships; (2004), head football coach at Ohio State who led the 2002 team to a 14-0 record and the school’s first consensus national title since 1968; Pat Tabler (2005), former player who has been involved in coaching and charity work in the Cincinnati area, and Clark Kellogg (2006), a former high school, collegiate and professional basketball standout who has served as a national college basketball tele- vision analyst since 1990. — OHSAA —