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Delnor poss

Achievements:

High School-Delano, (Calif.) High School football 

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Water Valley High School basketball 

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San Angelo Central High School basketball, two-year letterman, all-District, all-West Texas basketball team, single game scoring record (25), track, two-year letterman

 

Hardin-Simmons University: All Border Conference First Team guard; 200-, 300-, 400-, 900-point scoring club; single game scoring record, 34 points; four-year track letterman; three-year starter in basketball.

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Menard High School 1960 Yellow Jacket Yearbook: Dedicated to Delnor Poss and Gerald Centilli.

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Halls of Fame: Hardin-Simmons University athletics; Midland College athletics; NJCAA golf; San Angelo Central athletics; Western Junior College Conference athletics; Golf Coaches of America.

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Midland College Golf Achievements:

PING Inc. NJCAA National Golf Coach of the Year: 2016                

NJCAA National Champions: 1992, 1995, 2006, 2008

NJCAA National Second Place: 1991, 1994, 2000, 2007                

NJCAA National Third Place: 1990, 1993, 1996, 2004, 2009, 2016        

NJCAA National Fourth Place : 1997. 1999, 2003, 2011

NJCAA National Top Six Finishes: 22

NJCAA Top Fifteen Finishes: 26 

NJCAA Athletic Director Achievement Award: 1984

NJCAA National Golf Coach of the Year: 1992, 1995, 2006, 2008

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World University Games Golf Champions Coach: 1996

 

Midland Community Service Award: 1996

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• NJCAA National Golf Coach of the Year Award renamed to the “Delnor Poss Coach of the Year     Award” in 2018

• President, Southwest Basketball Officials Association of Texas, four years (1972-1976)

• NJCAA National Basketball game Official: 1976

• Texas University Interscholastic State Basketball Tournament game official four times

• Board of Trustees, Big Spring ISD, 12 years

• Board of Directors: First Christian churches of Big Spring and Ruidoso, N.M.; Memorial Christian 

   Church of Midland: Big Spring Chamber of Commerce

• Coached the Parkhill Elementary Panthers to three undefeated Gray-Y Football City (four overall)

   Championships and four City Basketball Championships 

• Coached Little League Baseball Yankees to two League Championships

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The Midland College ex-players have been astounding with 30 on some type of professional tour around the world! Highlights of this group’s  participating accomplishments are as follows: The Masters (3), USPGA Championship (6), U.S. Open (5), British Open (8) and The Ryder Cup (2)! We have also had 2 exes coach the European Palmer Cup Team. We have had players in the Presidents Cup, the Dunhill Cup, the Eisenhower Cup, Walker Cup and the Palmer Cup!

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