Former Ohio State football player and assistant coach Bill Conley, Phil Mauro and Pat Sergio comprise the 2025 class of the Central District Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the organization announced Friday.
Conley was an offensive guard for the Buckeyes from 1968-71 before going 78-39-3 as a head coach at London (1974-77) – including a 10-0 season in 1975 – Groveport (1979-81), Middletown (1982-83) and Dublin (1988-90). He was an assistant coach at OSU from 1984-87 and 1991-2003, Ohio Dominican’s head coach from 2010-15 and currently is an analyst for 610 WTVN’s and WCMH-NBC4’s Ohio State programming.
Mauro has more than 200 victories in a four-decade career spanning several schools inside and outside central Ohio, including DeSales (1986-87), Lancaster (1988-89), Canal Winchester (2007-10 and 2014-16), Bloom-Carroll (2012-13) and Mount Gilead (2019).
Sergio, a 1969 graduate of Wehrle, has been a head or assistant coach in central Ohio for the past 56 seasons. He was a head coach at Watterson (1978-83) and Centennial (1987-2011) and most recently has been an assistant at DeSales, working with the freshman and junior varsity teams.
The trio will receive commemorative plaques during the CDFCA’s next meeting April 23.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: OHSAA football: Central District coaches name 2025 hall of fame class
