Former Head Baseball Coach (2005-21)
Hometown: Guthrie, Oklahoma
High School: Guthrie
College: Wichita State University
Phil Stephenson spent 16th seasons as head baseball coach with Dodge City Community College. Under Stephenson, the Conqs won the Central District Championship in 2015 and appeared in the 2015 JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, CO. He amassed a record of 422-415-1 coachin in over 800 games.
A native of Guthrie, Okla., Stephenson was a three-time, first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference baseball selection at Wichita State University, including the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year in 1982. A First-Team All-American at first base in 1981 and 1982, Stephenson was named the Baseball News College Player of the Year in 1982.
A member of the Shockers’ College World Series squad in 1982, Stephenson still holds the Wichita State career records for hits (418), runs scored (420), RBI (322), total bases (730), stolen bases (206), walks (300) and hitting streak (47 games). Stephenson held 13 individual NCAA records at the conclusion of his career at Wichita State and he still currently holds NCAA career records for hits, runs, total bases, stolen bases, and walks.
Stephenson was a third round choice of the Oakland A’s in 1982 free agent draft. He played 14 years of professional baseball, with four of those years coming in the major leagues as a member of the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres. After retiring in 1995, Stephenson spent four years coaching in professional baseball, managing one year with the Abilene Prairie Dogs of the Texas-Louisiana League - winning the league championship and being named Manager of the Year in 1996, managing in the South Atlantic League in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with the Montreal Expos organization, and two years as the hitting instructor with the Wichita Wranglers, the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. In 2000, Stephenson was the volunteer coach at his alma mater, Wichita State.
During the next four years, Stephenson was self-employed in Wichita, doing sports radio broadcasting in the Wichita market and operating an indoor batting cage business. Stephenson also organized and ran a charity “Wiffleball” tournament in Wichita to raise money for children who have autism and other communication disorders.
On Oct. 5, 2008, Stephenson was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame along with 10 other inductees. In 2007, Stephenson was elected to the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas. He has also been named as one of the three best College baseball players of the 20th Century by Collegiate Baseball and one of the top 10 College baseball players of all-time by Baseball America.
Stephenson is also a member of the Guthrie High School Hall of Fame, the Wichita, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame, the Wichita State University Hall of Fame, and the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame.
A 1983 graduate of Wichita State with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Stephenson and his wife Kim have four children, Ashley, who is currently the Head Softball Coach at Cimarron (KS) High School; Bret, the Conqs biggest fan; Emily, who will be a freshman with the DC3 Softball team; and Caroline, who is involved in 3 sports and the drill team at Dodge City High School. In his spare time, Stephenson enjoys spending time with his family, coaching his daughters’ sports teams, playing golf when time allows, and instructing youth baseball and softball players. Stephenson is also in his 11th year as the general manager of the Dodge City A's, a summer collegiate baseball team that competes in the Jayhawk Collegiate Summer League. The A's finished tied for seventh in the 2012 NBC tournament held annually in Wichita.
