Former Joliet Junior College Head Football Coach Tom Minnick will be inducted into the NJCAA Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame with the Class of 2021.

In 25 years of service, Minnick has made history across the NJCAA. The current head football coach at Garden City Community College in Kansas, Minnick had coaching stops at College of DuPage DuPage, JJC, and Arizona Western College.

With the Chaparrals, a team that Minnick played for as a star quarterback up until 1991, he joined forces with NJCAA household name Bob MacDougall. DuPage played in a bowl game every year during his campaign, and in 1994 they went 11-0, being named Midwest Bowl Champions. 

In 2002, Minnick followed MacDougall to Joliet, where the Wolves became the first non-scholarship program in the NJCAA to win a national championship. Following MacDougall's retirement, Minnick stepped up, winning 10 games in 2007 and winning the Graphic Edge Bowl. He was named NJCAA Region 4 Coach of the Year following the season's success.

At the 2007 season end, the Fort Wayne, IN native took the head coach position at Arizona Western, a job he held for 11 seasons. In the saddle, Minnick was the only coach in program history to lead the team to multiple NJCAA Football Championship games (2011, 2016, 2017) and is also the only coach in program history to lead the Matadors to nine straight bowl appearances, to win back-to-back-to-back conference titles (2009-11, 2016-17) and to win a WSFL Championship. Minnick's teams finished in the top-20 eight out of eleven seasons. Minnick left Yuma, AZ as the all-time winningest coach and is now in his third season at the helm of the Broncbusters program.

Minnick holds the third highest winning percentage among active NJCAA coaches.