'12 Pat Daugherty
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- Title:
- Head Coach
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- Year:
- 2012
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- Team:
- Baseball
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- IHCC Years:
- 1965-82
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- Career Highlights:
- 17 seasons • 640 career wins • 2x JUCO World Series • MLB Scout
Pat Daugherty served as the Head Baseball Coach on the Centerville campus from 1965–1982. He led the Falcons to their first ever trip to the Junior College World Series in 1973 and took them back to the series again in 1981. In his 16 seasons as head coach his teams compiled a record of 640-245, an average of 40 wins per year. They topped all college teams in Iowa in wins in 1976 when they went 45-12 and just missed out on qualifying for the World Series. While in Centerville, Pat was also an assistant football coach for the Falcons. In 1975 the baseball field on the Centerville campus, which Daugherty and his players helped make a reality, was named Pat Daugherty Field. Daugherty left Indian Hills in '82 to accept a job in the Montreal Expos organization. He had worked for the Expos during the previous 10 summers as a manager in the clubs' minor league system. He was with the Expos when he had a chance to take a position with the Colorado Rockies where he served until 2015. As a testament to his widespread success, the former IHCC coach has been inducted into four Hall of Fames, including the American Baseball COaches Association (ABCA) and NJCAA Coaches Association.