Athletic Director

Mr. Dale H. Plummer
Athletic Director/Sports Center Manager
610-566-1776 ex. 237
610-566-6502 (Fax)
dplummer@williamson.edu

For a school with a student body of 230 to win a national championship in anything-let alone basketball is almost unheard of. For that same school to have one of its team’s named the National Academic Team of the Year in the same season is unheard of. And yet, that is exactly what happened to Williamson last year and it is the unheard of that the school has come to expect during the 22-year tenure of athletic director Dale Plummer.

To say the changes that have occurred in the Williamson athletic department during Plummer’s time at the school have been dramatic might be a huge understatement. Williamson’s athletic teams went a combined 14-68-1 prior to his arrival during the 1988-89 school year. Since then, Williamson’s athletic teams have combined to have winning seasons in 19 out of the previous 21 years and have won over 64% of their contests during that period. During the 2003-04 year, Williamson’s sports teams combined to win a school record 79 contests including national championship appearances by both the basketball and lacrosse teams. In 2008, Williamson’s basketball team stunned the basketball world by winning the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II national championship, the first national championship in school history. If the basketball world was stunned in 2008, then it was knocked on its ear in 2009 as Williamson defended its title, winning their 2nd straight USCAA national championship.

Raising the bar for the Williamson’s student-athletes has also been a hallmark of Plummer’s tenure as the school’s 7 varsity teams have combined to have a Grade Point Average of over 2.75 in each of his years including 3.00 or higher in 15 out of the last 16 years. The highlight of such academic excellence came in June of 2009 when Williamson’s lacrosse team was named the National Academic Team of the Year by the National Junior College Athletic Association. They were the only men’s lacrosse team in the nation with a combined team GPA of above a 3.0 (3.27).

During his tenure at the school, Williamson has added a new football/soccer game field, new outdoor lighting for both its game and practice facilities, a new baseball backstop and complex, an expansion and upgrade to its weight room, an electronic baseball scoreboard and numerous other improvements. In the spring of 2000, he oversaw the addition of lacrosse as a varsity sport at Williamson and in 2010, Williamson will add tennis as its 8th varsity sport. The school also added a new on-campus tennis court in the spring of 2001 and in 2003 the gym floor design was completely re-done.

Aside from his duties as athletic director, Dale also is Williamson’s Intramural Director and is the Building Manager for the school’s Restall Sports Center. In addition, he is also a mathematics instructor at the school and is the founder and director of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Additionally he oversees the school’s Instrumental Music program. He currently is co-chairman for the school’s Student Activities Program, which ensures that each student at Williamson is involved in at least one extra-curricular activity per year during their three years at Williamson. He also is a member of the school’s Substance Abuse Council and is a past member of the school’s Capital Campaign Committee. He previously served 9 years as chairman of the school’s Conduct Code Review Board and is currently a member of the school’s Strategic Planning committee.

Currently, Dale is chairman of the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) Region XIX lacrosse committee. He is the assistant chairman for the baseball committee and is also a member of the wrestling and track and field committees. He oversaw the school’s admission into the National Junior College Athletic Association in 1992 and the United States Collegiate Athletic Association in 2002. In 2007 he was named to the USCAA national selection committee for the organization’s national basketball tournament. He founded both the Eastern States Baseball League and the Eastern States Soccer League and is currently the overseer of both leagues. During his 21 years at the school, Williamson has made the transition to having each of its sports teams in a national organization and/or conference.

During the past 7 years alone, Williamson has had 22 All-Americans, 6 Academic All-Americans, 58 all conference players, 4 conference Player of the Year award winners, 8 tournament MVPs, 7 league championships, 1 state championship, 2 national championships, and 1 academic team of the year award winner.

Dale is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), National Association of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA) and is the school’s representative for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), leading a weekly Bible study for Williamson athletes.

Dale holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration degree, both from Widener University. In 2002, he added an additional Masters degree becoming the first graduate (and only graduate at the time) from Neumann College’s graduate program in Sports Management, graduating with a perfect 4.00 Grade Point Average. Neumann’s curriculum was 1 of only 13 in the nation at that time to be approved by the North American Society for Sports Management (NASSM), the foremost sports management organization in the world.

Prior to Williamson, he was the Tennis Administrator/Head Men’s Tennis Coach for 3 ½seasons at Widener University. During his time there Widener set the school record for wins going 33-22 during that time. A former player at Widener prior to becoming the Tennis Administrator, he holds the school record for career victories with 41. He also was the voice of Widener (then) Pioneer football as the team’s play-by-play announcer for radio station WDNR, 89.5 FM for 11 years.

During the 2004-05 school year Dale was a finalist for the prestigious NACDA Athletic Director of the Year award. In the spring of 2004 Dale was presented with a leadership award by the Southeastern Chester County Leadership Association for his work with young people. He taught Sunday School for adults for 7 years at Middletown Presbyterian Church prior to moving to Bethlehem United Methodist Church. He has been a volunteer youth soccer coach with Nether Providence Athletic Association’s youth soccer program for the past 8 years and was named the Major Girls Division commissioner for the fall of 2009. He is also a past member of the Development Committee at The Christian Academy school in Brookhaven, PA and is a Merit badge counselor for Boy Scouts of America, Troop 85.

Dale and his wife Debbie live on the Williamson campus with their 14-year-old son Ryan and their 11-year-old daughter Laura. Debbie volunteers her time running the football merchandise stand for the team and also helps out in the school’s Student Clothes Closet.