Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame

A 1987 graduate of Riverdale High School, Matt Dodds was a three-sport athlete (football, basketball and baseball) who earned All-North Central Conference first-team honors five times with the Falcons and still holds multiple school records. He went onto play baseball at the University of Toledo.

Dodds still is recognized in the OHSAA pitching record book for his 151 strikeouts in a season and is second and third all-time in pitching wins in a single season in Riverdale history with nine and second and third in ERA (0.74 in 1985 and 0.97 in 1987) and first, second and third in strikeouts with 151, 133 and 130. He earned All-N10 first-team honors three times, and a senior, he batted .479 with four triples, 27 stolen bases, 35 hits and 40 runs scored.

His baseball career continued with the Rockets, earning a spot in their rotation as a freshman. He was named Mid-American Conference pitcher of the week and All-MAC honorable mention during his sophomore season, and in his junior year, he led Toledo with a 3.39 ERA, 49 strikeouts and 13 starts. Separately, Dodds still holds the American Legion single-game strikeout record with 26 in a 12-inning win against Sandusky in 1987.

As a basketball player for the Falcons, he lettered as a junior and senior and ranks eighth in school history with 813 points, including the second-most in a single season with 491. He has the single-game school record of 38 points and topped 30 points four times. Dodds holds the school record in scoring average for a career (16.9) and a season (20.5) and was voted to the All-NCC first team his senior year.

In football, Dodds was a two-way starter beginning his sophomore season playing running back and middle linebacker. He lettered four times and was All-NCC first team as a senior.

Dodds went onto coach youth baseball, softball and basketball in both Arlington and Mount Blanchard and was a junior varsity basketball coach for Riverdale.

A partner at Strategic Enrollment Services, an insurance enrollment firm he founded in Perrysburg in 2013, Dodds resides in rural Forest with his wife, Amy, of nearly 30 years. They have four children, Alyssa, Whitney, Lindsay and Spencer.