Hillcrest Academy’s Dwight Gingerich continues the climb into rarified air on the all-time boys Iowa high school basketball coaching wins list.

Gingerich has compiled a record of 759-239 during his head coaching tenure at Iowa Mennonite School/Hillcrest Academy. That puts him fourth on the all-time wins list. He has the second most wins of any active coach, trailing only Mitch Osborn of Harlan with 783. Retired coaches ahead of Gingerich include Fred Parsons with 784 and all-time leader Bob Hilmer with 917. Gingerich has the most wins in state history for a coach who has spent his entire career at one school. Of the six coaches in the 700-win club, which also includes Dan Beck, who Gingerich passed this season, and Al Marshall, Gingerich has gotten there in the second fewest number of years on the sidelines, 42, and second fewest total games, 998, trailing only Osborn. He holds a 76% winning percentage, second highest of the members of the 700 club.

His teams have averaged 18 wins per season. Only four times have his teams finished under .500, none since 1996, a string of 29 consecutive winning records. His squads have won at least 15 games in a season 31 times, and at least 20 games 21 times. Gingerich has led the Ravens to 12 state tournaments, finishing runner-up in Des Moines four times and winning the 1992 Class 1A State Championship. In 2015, he was honored by the IAHSAA for his 600th win during the boys State Tournament. He was inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2024. Gingerich is a 1976 Iowa Mennonite School alum.