With over 30 years of coaching experience, John Ralph becomes the seventh head basketball coach in Edison’s history. John’s experience’s as a coach both at the high school and college level will give him a great advantage as he guides an already storied basketball program.
John began his coaching career at Sandusky High School in 1976 where he coached the boy’s varsity basketball team through the 1979 season and then switched to directing the girl’s varsity team through the 1986 season. After leading the Sandusky teams to a 117-74 record during his tenure John jumped to the college game where as the assistant basketball coach at Slippery Rock University, After a successful campaign at Slippery Rock University, John coached Mifflin High school to a 14-6 record in 1987 and a trip to the regional tournament. John’s success as a head coach began to soar in 1991-1993 as he guided Lorain Admiral King High School to a 42-27 record and a trip to the regional tournament in 1993. It was while John was at LAK that he was honored as the Coach of the Year by the Lorain County Coaches Association.
In the 1993-94 season John joined one of the elite high school programs in the state of Ohio by assisting the long time and hall of fame basketball coach Joe Petrocelli at Dayton Alter High School. During John’s tenure at Alter the Knight s finished 84-37 with two final four appearances.
John made the switch back to college coaching in 1999 when he became the top assistant at Sinclair Community College. It was there that John became familiar with the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference.
In 2002 John accepted the position as the head coach as Dayton Thurgood Marshall. He had great success at Thurgood Marshall particularly in the 2008-09 season when he guided his the program to a city, sectional, district, and regional championship. Thurgood Marshall finished the season as state runner-up. In addition John was voted the Greater Dayton Coach of the year.
John is married to his lovely wife Phylliss. He is the father of two grown children, daughter Jessica Nycole Ralph and his son John Douglas Ralph. John and Phylliss reside in Englewood.
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