Dick Reynolds is the most successful basketball coach in the history of the Ohio Athletic Conference. He was the first to win conference championships in four decades, was selected as OAC coach of the year nine times, and finished with a 653-426 record. At the time, he exited as one of just seven Division III coaches to amass 650 victories.

The Cardinals advanced into the NCAA Division III Tournament 13 times under Reynolds, 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, Reynolds was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame.

Reynolds also served as the director of men’s athletics beginning in 1992. He was also placed in charge of women’s athletics in 1998 after Otterbein combined men’s and women’s athletics in 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.