Long-time Mount Hood Community College head coach Dale Stebbins joined the UP staff as a volunteer assistant coach in 2010.
From 1977 to 1999, Stebbins taught health and physical education and coached baseball at MHCC (assisted football until dropped program ’79). He returned in 2007 for one more season as the head coach.
He had 540 wins for the Saints and was named coach of the year eight times. His teams reached the playoffs 18 (19 of 24) times and won eight NWAACC South Region championships. He was instrumental in 137 players getting a chance to compete at four-year colleges, and 33 of his players signed professional contracts. Dale was inducted into the NAIA District II Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Oregon High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2000.
Dale joined the Aloha Knights in 2003 as an assistant coach. The Knights won the NBC World Series in 2004 and Dale became their head coach in 2005, where the Knights returned to the World Series, finishing fifth.
He has coached 13 players who would go on to sign pro contracts, seven of which have reached the major leagues. Three of his former players are currently MLB scouts. Dale is also a member of the NWAACC Hall of Fame and the NBHS Hall of Fame.
Dale lettered in football, basketball and baseball at North Bend High School and also played four years of American Legion baseball, leading to being a four-year letterman in the sport at Pacific University. He also played 10 years of semi-pro baseball, including for the Coos Bay-North Bend Lumberjacks. After graduating from college, he embarked on a long teaching and coaching career.
He taught and was an assistant coach in baseball and football at Gresham High School for three years and then taught and coached at Sam Barlow High School for eight years before moving up to the collegiate level.
Dale and his wife Donna have four children and one grandchild.