PENDLETON — A former Pendleton High School coach is set to be inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
The late Dan Dimich is in the 2019 Men’s Induction Class to be honored Wednesday, March 20.
Dimich was a 1944 graduate of South Bend Washington High School, where he is a member of its hall of fame.
Dimich was the varsity coach at Pendleton High School for at least three years, leaving in the spring of 1959 for Penn High School and then Mishawaka-Marion, according to Pamela Schug, who is familiar with the Pendleton basketball program.
At Indiana State University under Hall of Fame coaches John Wooden and John Longfellow, Dimich was a key member of teams and made three NAIB National Tournament appearances, including the 1950 NAIB National Championship squad.
Dimich was named to the 1950 NAIB all- tournament team and was an NAIB All-American. He joins his Indiana State teammates Duane Klueh, Lenny Rzeszewski and Jim Powers Sr. as Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductees.
Dimich also taught and coached at French Lick, Brookston and South Bend Clay until his retirement in 1986. He resided in South Bend at the time of his death in 2008.
