Dean Bailey has had a lifetime of significant athletic achievement since his college days at East Tennessee State University during the 1930s. He was a multi-sport star at ETSU, earning twelve letters and captaining the baseball, football, and basketball teams from 1930 to 1934. If that wasn’t enough, he was also student body and senior class president. After serving in the Navy and later as assistant coach at Lenoir City High School, he was head basketball, baseball, and football coach at Maryville High from 1934 to 1936. At Lincoln Memorial University, Bailey served as head basketball coach from 1948 to 1975 and as athletic director, head baseball coach, and associate professor of health and physical education from 1948 to 1980. His basketball coaching record at LMU was a respectable 338-326, and his teams won ten Smoky Mountain and Volunteer Athletic conference championships. As head baseball coach, he won fifteen Smoky Mountain and VAC championships, including seven straight from 1951 to 1957. A solid career from a former East Tennessee State standout.
