Hall of Fame
Ron Pinsenschaum was a four-year starter in the outfield for coach Turkey Hughes’ Eastern baseball team and was named first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference in 1965, 1966 and 1967. He was selected as EKU’s Most Valuable Player in 1967 when the Colonels won the OVC championship. He also was a driving force in Eastern winning four OVC division crowns and the 1966 OVC title. His senior season, he was elected as Homecoming King and was also chosen as Mr. Popularity on campus. Following graduation with a double major in biology and chemistry, he volunteered to serve for the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War where he was awarded four purple hearts, the Silver Star Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and the Republic of South Vietnam Training Service Medal. Upon his discharge from the Army, he moved to Dayton, Ohio where he received his Master’s of Divinity degree and began teaching at Dayton Christian High School. He began his coaching career at Dayton Christian serving as an assistant baseball coach while teaching anatomy and physiology. He introduced soccer to the school system and began a very successful career coaching soccer in 1978. In what became his final year of coaching, Pinsenschaum was named the Ohio Soccer Class AAA Coach of the Year in 1986. Following his untimely death in 1987, the Dayton Christian School’s Soccer Camp was named in his honor and shortly thereafter, the track and soccer field at Dayton Christian was named the Ronald G. Pinsenschaum Memorial Stadium. Also, the Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association annually awards the Ron Pinsenschaum Award to a coach of a boys’ soccer team. A graduate of Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio he is survived by his widow, Janet Carlson of Dayton, Ohio; two children, Ryan and Julie; and four grandchildren, Todd, Lydia, Lisa and Ronald.
