Dennis Kas named to Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame

Dennis Kas, head coach of the Noblesville High School boys baseball team, has been inducted into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.

Kas has coached at NHS since 1987. At the close of the 1999 season, the Millers had won 279 games while losing 125 in the 13 years with Kas as coach. The teams have been rated in the state's Top 20 Coaches' Poll for 10 of those years, including a No. 1 ranking in 1997. His team have won two Olympic Conference titles, three sectional titles, and the only regional championship in the school's history.

Kas was Hamilton County Coach of the Year four times and Sheridan Regional Coach of the Year three times. He was District 3 Coach of the Year in 1999.

In his 18 years as a varsity coach, Kas's teams have compiled an overall record of 368-162, a winning percentage of .694, and an average season of 20-9. He has had 37 players play collegiately and three players signed to professional contracts. He has had nine Indiana North/South players, nine all-state players, nine academic all-state players, one national all-district player, and one Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year.

Kas has been active in the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association and currently serves as president. A board member and coach for the Indiana Bulls, an elite summer baseball travel program, he was an assistant coach on the squad of 16-year-old boys which captured the 1999 N.A.B.F. National Championship.

He was an associate scout with the Pittsburg Pirates for 13 years before he recently aligned himself with the Atlanta Braves as an associate scout.