Alan Baker began the University of Findlay women’s golf program and coached men’s golf and basketball at the school as well during a 40-year career that began with high school basketball at Arcadia High School. Baker joined the UF staff in 1990, teaching in the education department and coaching men’s golf (23 seasons) and serving as men’s basketball assistant for 13 years. He fielded the first women’s golf team in 1994 with his 1998 squad finishing fourth nationally behind NAIA champion and four-time All-American Kiki Corliss. Heather Ruhe (1998 & ’99) and Kyle Weisenburger (2000) were also All-Americans during Baker’s tenure. He was voted Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men’s (2002 & 2008) and women’s (2013) golf coach of the year and the 2007 men’s team won the GLIAC championship. After graduating from Findlay (1973), Baker was hired at Arcadia as an English teacher and head boys’ basketball coach. He was named Blanchard Valley Conference and District 8 Coach of the Year (1978) and his 1977-78 team was inducted into the hall of fame in 1998. He went on to teach English and serve as a Findlay High boys basketball assistant for 11 years. Along the way he earned a master’s degree in education (1985) from Austin Peay State University.