General | 6/28/2018 11:57:00 AM

GREENVILLE, Pa. – Three Tomcats and a longtime coach and administrator will be inducted into the Thiel College Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 28.
 
The 38^th Athletic Hall of Fame induction class will include: Beau Bilock '01 (baseball), Tom Phillips '70 (football), Laura Simonetti '05 (soccer/basketball/track & field), as well as John Dickason, a celebrated longtime coach and administrator.
 
A four-year letter winner and two-year captain, Bilock was a two-time All-Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) honoree including first team accolades following his senior season in 2001. He owned a career batting average of .321 and tallied 118 hits during his four seasons. Fifty-one of his hits were for extra bases, including 31 doubles, 11 triples and nine home runs. Bilock's career slugging percentage was .421, and got on base at a .385 clip. He scored 75 runs during his career and recorded 72 RBIs.
 
Bilock was among the best hitters in the nation during his senior season in 2001. Among his NCAA Division III peers, Bilock ranked second in triples per game (.26), tied for 10^th in doubles per game (.51) and finished 11^th in slugging percentage (.843). Bilock hit .411 (56-127) in 2001, which ranked 41^st-best in Division III.
 
An All-PAC First Team selection in 2001, Bilock went on to be named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III South All-Star Second Team. He was also an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings NCAA Division III All-Mideast Region Honorable Mention selection.
 
Phillips quarterbacked the Tomcats for two seasons, including in 1967 when the team won its first Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) championship. He completed 31 passes, six of which were touchdown throws, for 366 yards in 1967. He also ran for 132 yards and scored two touchdowns on 72 carries.
 
Efficient is perhaps the best way to describe Phillips' play back in the late 1960s when the team only played eight games per season and power football still dominated the sport. Phillips threw 19 career touchdown passes, which ties him for the sixth most in program history, and his 112.3 career pass efficiency rating also ranks sixth in program history.
 
In 1968, Phillips owned a pass efficiency rating of 137.4, third best in program single-season history, and completed 53.2 percent of his passes, which ranks 11^th in team history.
 
Phillips joins a long list of hall of famers who played on the 1967 championship football team, including: Jim Baird, John Castaldo, Patsy Combine, Logan Cribbs, Mike Donato, Jon Drenocky, John Gibson, Joe Krainc, Al McCartney, Frank Newnam, Bill Reading, John Tomlinson, Don Walters and John Wascak, as well as head coach Jim McCullough and assistant coaches Mel Berry and Wayne Petrarca.
 
Simonetti earned 10 letter awards in three sports. She was a four-time All-PAC selection in soccer, including a First Team selection in 2001 and a pair of Second Team nods in 2002 and 2003.
 
Simonetti is Thiel's career leader in assists (25). She ranks second in program history in points (71) and third in goals (23). Her 11 assists in 2003, her junior season, are the most in school history in a single season.
 
During her three-year basketball career, Simonetti scored 273 points while corralling 151 rebounds. She handed out 74 assists and came up with 70 steals. She also earned three letters in track & field, including in 2003 when she finished third in the long jump and triple jump at the PAC Championships.
 
Dickason's career at Thiel College spanned more than three decades from 1969 through 2004. He was an associate professor of health and physical education from 1969 until his retirement in 2004, and he served two six-year stints as the director of athletics during the 1980s and 1990s.
 
Dickason coached several sports during his career at Thiel. He was an assistant football coach from 1969 through 1984 and helped the Tomcats win the PAC championship in 1972. He was the head men's basketball coach for five seasons (1975-80) and was the head men's tennis coach for three seasons (1980-82).
 
From 1985 through 2004, Dickason served as Thiel's head golf coach. He coached Bill Wadrose '01, a Hermitage, Pa. native, who was the PAC MVP in 2000 after earning medalist honors at the conference championships.
 
A native of Oberlin, Ohio, Dickason served as Thiel's associate dean of students from 1988-91 and was the treasurer for the PAC from 1984-2006. He was also involved with the PAC and Thiel Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
 
Prior to arriving at Thiel, Dickason was a teacher and coach at Boardman High School (1963-69). He earned a bachelor's degree (1961) and a master's degree (1963) in physical education from Ohio University.
 
Dickason was his senior class president at Ohio University, and he was a starter at halfback and safety on the Bobcats' 1960 NCAA College Division championship football team. A three-time letter winner, he went on to win Ohio University's Senior Athlete of the Year Award (1960-61). The 1960 football team became the first team to be enshrined in the Kermit Blosser Ohio University Athletics Hall of Fame (2012).
 
The Thiel College 38^th Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28 at the Lutheran Heritage Room in the Howard Miller Student Center (HMSC). Tickets are $50 apiece.
 
Reservations for the 38^th Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony, as well as the annual Blue-Gold Golf Outing, which will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 28 at the Greens of Greenville, can be made online by clicking here. The registration deadline for both events is Friday, Sept. 21. Those wishing to sponsor the Blue-Gold Golf Outing may do so via the online form.