June 17, 2009
COLUMBUS--Miami University head men's basketball coach Charlie Coles will be honored with the Ohio High School Athletic Association's Ethics and Integrity Award, which is presented annually to an Ohioan who has displayed outstanding traits of ethical behavior and integrity in the performance of duties and responsibilities and is a role model for others.
The award is the highest honor the OHSAA Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Committee may bestow. Coles will be honored, along with 53 high school student-athletes, at the 17th Annual Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Banquet, which takes place Friday, June 19 at the Crowne Plaza Columbus North.
Some of the previous winners of the OHSAA Ethics and Integrity Award have been: Miami University alumnus Wayne Embry (2000), an NBA executive who is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; former U.S. Senator John H. Glenn Jr. (1997), whose distinguished career has included military service, the U.S. space program, corporate management and local and national politics; Archie Griffin (1998), executive director of the Alumni Association at The Ohio State University, where, as a student, he was the only football player in history to win the Heisman Trophy twice; 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; Larry Kehres (2003), head football coach at Mount Union who has led the school to 10 NCAA Division III National Championships; Jim Tressel (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 Major League Baseball 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 television analyst since 1990.
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Coles, who signed a three-year contract extension in March, has guided the RedHawks for 13 seasons and owns the most wins of any coach in program history with a 224-168 record. In 19 seasons as a collegiate head coach, all in the Mid-American Conference, Coles has compiled an overall career record of 316-252 and a career conference record of 193-132. His 193 MAC wins rank second to former Toledo head coach Bob Nichols' 194 league triumphs. Every team Coles has coached has advanced to the MAC Tournament. Since the tournament expanded to include all teams in 2000, Miami teams have advanced at least to the quarterfinal round each year. Under Coles, Miami set a MAC Tournament record for consecutive appearances in the championship game with five straight from 1997 to 2001. Twice Coles has guide Miami to the tournament title (1997 and 2007), while capturing the MAC regular-season crown three times (1997, 1999 and 2005). The RedHawks have finished among the MAC's top four teams to earn first-round tournament byes five of the last six seasons.
During Coles' Miami tenure, six teams have advanced to postseason play--NCAA 1997, 1999, 2007; NIT 2005, 2006; CBI 2008--and Coles has mentored 18 players who have garnered 27 all-MAC awards, including nine first-team honorees. Over the past six seasons, Miami has had six players capture seven first-team all-MAC honors and is the only MAC school to have at least one first-team honoree each of the last six years.
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