Dintaman to speak at Baseball Ontario's Best Ever clinic

Northern Kentucky University associate coach Steve Dintaman will be one of the speakers at Baseball Ontario’s Best-Ever Coaches Clinic in January. Photo: Baseball Ontario

December 18, 2024

Official Baseball Ontario News Release

Baseball Ontario is proud to announce the next guest speaker for the 2025 Best Ever Coaches Clinic, Northern Kentucky University associate coach, Steve Dintaman.

In 2024, Dintaman was on staff as Northern Kentucky captured its first Horizon League Tournament Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.

Dintaman has been a fixture in the collegiate baseball scene in the region since 2004. After spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, he took over as skipper of the program in 2007 and spent 13 seasons as the Tartans’ head coach.

During his tenure, Dintaman racked up a 510-168 (.752) record with nine OCCAC Conference Championships and 11 NCJAA regional appearances, which included two regional championships (2016, 2018) and three runner-up finishes (2009, 2015, 2017). He led Sinclair to third- and fifth-place finishes in the NJCAA World Series in 2016 and 2018, respectively. The Tartans were nationally ranked every year since 2009, reaching top-5 status in eight of those years. The 10-time OCCAC Coach of the Year was also twice named NJCAA North District & Region Coach of the Year.

Student-athletes flourished under Dintaman. Over 100 of his players went on to compete at four-year institutions, 80 of which went to Division I programs. Six former players were selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. Accolades for his players were numerous - 42 Academic All-Americans, six All-Americans, 60 OCCAC All-Conference, five OCCAC Players of the Year and eight OCCAC Pitchers of the Year.

In addition to the 42 Academic All-Americans, Dintaman’s team’s garnered recognition as NJCAA Academic All-America Teams six times.

Dintaman and his wife, Kristen, have two daughters, Harper Noelle and Zoey Nicole.

The 2025 Best Ever Coaches Clinic returns to the Sheraton Toronto Airport from January 10-12, 2025.