Dave Hanneman, a charter member of the Hancock Sports Hall of Fame committee, is a five-time Ohio Sportswriter of the Year and has authored two books. Hanneman, who is a 31-year veteran of The Courier sports staff, was the 2002 Associated Press Division II Sportswriter of the Year and won the Ohio Prep Sports Writers Association’s top writing award in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 2007 and has been honored for columns, game stories, features, new stories and investigative reporting first covering the Blanchard Valley Conference (1979-2000) and Findlay High (2000-present). He finished second in the AP writing contest and received the OHSAA Media Service Award district award in 2001 and served as chairman of the AP Northwest District Board (1989-2009). As an author, Hanneman wrote Diamonds in the Rough (1990), a book about baseball scout Tony Lucadello, and Wildcats (2007), the story of Miller City’s 1949-50 state championship basketball team. Hanneman joined Dave Egbert and Tom Jeffire as one of the co-founders of the Hancock Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.