Delaware Wrestling Hall of Fame
Smyrna Members
Newest Member
Zane Robinson
photo and bio coming soon
Mr. Ron Eby
Inducted April 22, 2000
Head Wrestling Coach Smyrna High School
1965-1977
Ron Eby attended the John McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from
1957-1959. His wrestling career started at West Chester State Teacher's College
where he wrestled for two years and graduated in 1964. His teaching and coaching
career at Smyrna High School began in 1964 where he coached his first wrestling
team and also served as Athletic Director for twenty-one years.
Ron built one of the most successful wrestling programs in the state and some of
the greatest rivalries. Most matches between Caesar Rodney and Sussex
Central/Georgetown were standing room only and produced deafening crowd
participation. He was very instrumental in bring the sport to the level it is
today. Ron coached thirty individual conference champions and eleven state
champions in his thirteen-year history. He was selected as Delaware Wrestling
Coach of the Year two times in 1970 and 1972.
Ron contributed to the development of wrestling in Delaware in many ways. He has
served on the Delaware State Tournament Committee for over thirty years and is
presently a member. He also helped organize the Henlopen Conference as it exists
today. His legacy lives on at Smyrna where the Smyrna Wrestling Team celebrated
its four hundredth victory on January 7, 2000 in a span of forty years. Ron Eby
continues to contribute to the sport of wrestling in Delaware and is, and has
been, a vital part to the success of our great sport.
Record: 123 - 20 - 3 (overall) (.842)
91 - 5 - 2 (conference) (.929)
Coached 30 Individual Conference Champions, 11 Individual State Champions
Delaware State Wrestling Coach of the Year 1970 & 1972
Member of the Delaware State Wrestling Committee for over 30 years
Athletic Director Smyrna High School 21 years
Founder of the Smyrna Little Wrestlers Program
Legendary Wrestling Coach Mike Dulin
Inducted 2006
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Overall
Record 182 – 46 (22 of the 46
losses came from either Wm Penn or St Marks)
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Henlopen
Conference Record 155 – 16 (.906 winning percentage)
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Henolpen
Conference Southern Division Record 80 – 0
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Captured
15 Straight Henlopen Conference Southern Division Titles
(1984 – 1998)
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Coached
6 Henlopen Conference Championship teams
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Capture
3 Henlopen Conference Tournament Titles
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Coached
3 Division II State Championship teams, and 3
2nd Place teams
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Mr.
Dulins teams were in the Division II State Finals, all 6 years, while he was
head coach
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Coached
7 Individual State Champs, 14 2nd place, and 10 3rd
place (21 finalist, 31 in top 3)
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Coached
28 Individual Conference Champions
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Captured
Multiple Coach of the Year Awards
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Mr.
Dulin worked on the committee to form the Dual Meet State Championships
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Mr.
Dulin coached a team that wrestled, what was considered, the toughest
schedule in the state by competing in the Henlopen Conference and wrestling
upstate powerhouses William Penn, St Marks, and Salesianum |
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his 15 years as Head Coach, no Smyrna Wrestler went all 4 years of High
School without being on a Henlopen Conference Championship Team |
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Mr.
Dulin ran the Smyrna Wrestling feeder program, the Smyrna Little Wrestlers,
for 14 years. |
Upon retiring as Smyrna High School Wresting Head Coach, Mr Dulin is still very much a part of Smyrna Wrestling. He has been assisting at Smyrna Little Wrestlers practices, Smyrna Middle School practices, and matches, and still with the High School.