Dick Tressel '70 graduated from BW in 1970 and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012.

Tressel is regarded by many Yellow Jacket fans as arguably the best athlete of the Tressel boys.  His main sport was baseball where he was a four-year letterman, served as a team captain and an outstanding second baseman. In 1968 as a freshman, he set a BW school record with a 1.000 field percentage, which meant that Tressel did not commit a fielding error all season. At the plate, Tressel had a solid, .324 career batting average. He also played football, lettered for four years and earned second-team All-OAC honors.

In addition, he was a scholar-athlete who received the 1969-70 Outstanding Physical Education Student in the State of Ohio award as well as the the Lee Tressel Academic Award. Tressel also was a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Mu Epsilon and Dayton C. Miller honor societies and a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Following graduation, Tressel served as an assistant coach at Florida State University (1970-71) and earned his master’s degree from FSU in 1976. He then became a mathematics teacher and football coach at Gibsonburg High School (1971-73) and earned Associated Press Northwest Ohio District Coach of the Year honors in 1971.

From 1973-76, Tressel served as the defensive coordinator at Wayne State (Mich.). From 1978-2000, he served as the head coach and director of athletics at Hamline (Minn.) University and was the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1984. During that time, he also earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1996.

From 2004-2011, Tressel joined his brother, Jim ’75, at The Ohio State University. He is a member of the Hamline University and Berea High School Athletics halls of fame, and in 2003, the Tressel family received the BW Family Heritage Award. 

Today, Tressel serves as an assistant football coach and offensive coordinator at Carleton (Minn.) College.