Bethel College athletics has received a top character award for the sixth straight year, the second longest run in its regional conference, the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC).
Gregg Dick, head coach of men’s golf as well as college controller, has been named the 2022-23 KCAC Coach of Character, the conference office announced June 29.
All KCAC Champions of Character awards are presented by IMA Financial Group and Dissinger Reed.
According to his nominators, Dick both embodies the Champions of Character program’s five core values and instills them in his teams, producing an “infectious” attitude of service and leadership that has spread from men’s golf to the rest of Bethel athletics.
For the third straight year, Bethel has received the NAIA Champions of Character® Five-Star Gold Award.
This time, the Threshers had a perfect score of 100 points.
Bethel was one of 113 institutions across the NAIA to earn gold status, out of 181 that earned either gold, silver or bronze.
The NAIA announces the awards in the fall for the previous academic year (in this case, 2019-20).
NAIA institutions are asked annually to demonstrate their progress in pursuing “character-driven athletics.”
