Dick Hill Becomes Santiago Offensive Coordinator

Dick Hill, Orange County’s all-time winningest football coach, has joined Santiago as its offensive coordinator, Coach Ben Haley said Thursday.

Hill retired last season from Orange, where the Panthers went 3-7, 1-4 in the Century League. His career coaching record in Orange County is 212-111-4, but 224-112-4, including his first year at Downey in 1956.

Haley, whose father played alongside Hill at Pepperdine, was an assistant to Hill at Santa Ana Valley in 1974.

“It is something that our young boys, hopefully, will realize what positive values will come of it,” Haley said. “It’s something when I think [the players] get old and gray and they look back and realize they had Orange County’s all-time winningest coach teaching them, they’ll think they had quite a treat.”

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Jerry Rudd, 45, of Whittier, who has a vision impairment that has made him legally blind since 1985, bowled his first 300 game earlier this month at La Habra 300 Bowling Center.

Rudd, whose vision is corrected to 20/250, has juvenile macular degeneration. He has been bowling since 1971.