Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League

Category: Coach | Schools: Blackhawk, Mt. Lebanon | Sport: Basketball

A 1986 graduate of Blackhawk, Dori Oldaker is one of the few coaches in any sport to lead multiple schools to WPIAL and PIAA glory. She compiled a 495-139 record with the Blackhawk and Mt. Lebanon girls’ basketball programs, leading her alma mater to two WPIAL and two PIAA crowns before taking the Blue Devils to four WPIAL and three PIAA championships. Oldaker’s 2009 Mt. Lebanon squad swept the WPIAL and PIAA titles in Class 4A, finishing with a 29-2 record and No. 7 national ranking by USA Today. She was named Associated Press Big School Coach of the Year on five occasions in 1999, 2000, 2008, 2009, and 2010, and earned Dapper Dan Sportswoman of the Year accolades in 2001. In 2005, Oldaker was the WPIAL Class 4A Coach of the Year and Johnny Unitas Sportsmanship Coach of the Year. She served as a coach for the USA Basketball national team trials, doing so with the U16 group in 2011 and the U17 and U18 teams in 2012. As a student-athlete at Blackhawk, she played basketball, golf, softball, and track & field, and won Beaver County Co-Athlete of the Year plaudits in 1986. Oldaker later earned her Bachelor’s degree in education from Pennsylvania State University in 1990, and has been a second grade teacher at Washington Elementary School in the Mt. Lebanon School District since 2003. She was inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Girls’ Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.