Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame

Jerry Snodgrass, a 1973 Upper Sandusky High School graduate, served as the 10th commissioner/executive director of the Ohio High School Athletic Association from 2018-20 after serving 10 years as an assistant commissioner overseeing the statewide administration of 14 high school sports including the adoption of high school lacrosse.

His responsibilities also included serving as the liaison to over 1,600 junior high and high school athletic directors, the manager of the OHSAA state boys’ and girls’ Basketball tournaments and implementing the nationally recognized student-based “Golden Megaphone” program and “Military Appreciation Night” across the state. He also has been a featured speaker at numerous leadership conferences across the state.

Snodgrass earned All-Northern Ohio League honors while a basketball and football player for the Rams. After graduating from Bowling Green State University in 1977, he spent a 43-year career in public education as a science teacher, coach and administrator in the Defiance City Schools, Ridgedale Local Schools, Bryan City Schools and Findlay City Schools for the final 25 years.

His career began as an assistant baseball, basketball and football coach at Defiance from 1977-80, and from there, Snodgrass moved onto Ridgedale to be a head coach with the Rockets until 1983. He then went to Bryan to become assistant athletic director before returning to coaching as Findlay’s head boys’ basketball coach in 1991. He took over as athletic director in 1993, holding that position until moving onto the OHSAA in 2008.

Snodgrass served on the OHSAA’s Northwest District Athletic Board, including as president, and was elected to a two-year term on the OHSAA Board of Directors, also serving as its president in 2006-07. He also has been a trustee with the OHSAA Foundation and served on the Columbus Sports Commission Board and The Wilson Football Hall of Fame.

Among the honors he has received includes being inducted into the Ohio Athletic Directors Hall of Fame in 2010, the Upper Sandusky High School Hall of Fame in 2017 and the Hancock County Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. He received the OHSAA’s Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Award and was selected for the OHSAA’s Naismith Meritorious Service Award.

He served as a broadcaster for WTLW/WOSN TV in Lima and Buckeye Cable Sports Network in Toledo, receiving honor by the District 8 Basketball Coaches’ Association as its Media Award Winner in 2003.

Snodgrass and his wife, Barb, have a daughter, Katie; son-in-law Mike; a grandson; two granddaughters; and a deceased son, Mark.