{"id":58145,"date":"2025-01-31T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=58145"},"modified":"2025-01-31T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:30:46","slug":"in-the-news-emu-alum-dwight-gingerich-81-racks-up-the-wins-as-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/in-the-news-emu-alum-dwight-gingerich-81-racks-up-the-wins-as-basketball-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: EMU alum Dwight Gingerich \u201981 racks up the wins as basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dwight Gingerich \u201981<\/strong>, boys basketball coach for Hillcrest Academy (formerly known as Iowa Mennonite School), notched his 753rd career win this season. His 753-233 career record makes him the fourth all-time winningest coach in Iowa history, according to a Jan. 25 article in The Gazette, a daily newspaper published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/basketball\/a-cool-753-career-victories-for-hillcrest-academys-dwight-gingerich\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gingerich, who is coaching his 43rd season at the school \u2014 he\u2019s also the principal there \u2014 was inducted into the Iowa High School Basketball Hall of Fame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillcrestravens.org\/2024\/03\/20\/dwight-gingerich-inducted-into-iowa-high-school-basketball-hall-of-fame\/\">last year<\/a>. In 2010, he received EMU\u2019s annual Alumnus of the Year Award (<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2010\/2010-alumnus-of-the-year-dwight-gingerich-emu-class-of-%e2%80%9981\/\">EMU News<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Gingerich \u201981, boys basketball coach for Hillcrest Academy (formerly known as Iowa Mennonite School), notched his 753rd career win this season. His 753-233 career record makes him the fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/in-the-news-emu-alum-dwight-gingerich-81-racks-up-the-wins-as-basketball-coach\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about In the News: EMU alum Dwight Gingerich \u201981 racks up the wins as basketball coach<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":58146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,4516,17562],"tags":[5753,18286,13581,17875,17408],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-58145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-digest","tag-alumni","tag-boys-basketball","tag-dwight-gingerich","tag-in-the-news","tag-iowa","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In the News: EMU alum Dwight Gingerich \u201981 racks up the wins as basketball coach - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/in-the-news-emu-alum-dwight-gingerich-81-racks-up-the-wins-as-basketball-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In the News: EMU alum Dwight Gingerich \u201981 racks up the wins as basketball coach - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dwight Gingerich \u201981, boys basketball coach for Hillcrest Academy (formerly known as Iowa Mennonite School), notched his 753rd career win this season. 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