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Danny Hale completed his ninth season leading the Huskies' football program in 2001. Hale had a previous five-year coaching tenure at West Chester. Hale has a record of 73-29-1 (.714) at Bloomsburg, and is eighth among active coaches on the all-time NCAA Division II winning percentage list with a career record of 113-42-1 (.728).

In 2001, Hale led the Huskies to a 9-2 record and their second straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies fell to eventual National Runner-up Grand Valley State. Hale was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division Coach of the Year after guiding the Huskies to the conference championship with a perfect 6-0 mark in division play.

Hale was named the AFCA Division II National Coach of the Year for 2000 after leading Bloomsburg to a 12-3 record and a berth in the NCAA Division II championship game. The Huskies dropped the title game to Delta State, 63-34. Hale was also named the AFCA District 1 Coach of the Year and the PSAC Eastern Division Coach of the Year for 2000.

He also earned Coach of the Year honors from the PSAC East from 1994 to 1997, while in 1994 and 1995, he was honored by the American Football Coaches' Association (AFCA) District 1 as Coach of the Year. Hale has six such honors from the AFCA and eight from the PSAC in his career. In 1999, Hale broke A.K. Aldinger's 94-year old record for most career wins by a Bloomsburg football head coach. Hale picked up his 100th career head coaching win against Kutztown towards the end of the 2000 season.

In 1997, Hale guided the Huskies to an 8-2 record and their fourth-straight PSAC Eastern Division title. Hale also coached Irv Sigler, the winner of the 1997 Harlon Hill Award as the nation's best Division II football player. As a result, he was named the 1997 PSAC East Coach of the Year for the fourth consecutive season.

In 1996, Hale led the Huskies to a record of 10-2 and a berth in the NCAA playoffs for the first time since the 1985 season.

In his first season at Bloomsburg, Hale coached the Huskies to a 5-6 record, improving the team from a 1-9 finish the previous fall. Hale took the Huskies up one more level in 1994, leading the team to an 8-3 record, including a 5-1 mark in the PSAC. With the league record, Bloomsburg earned a share of the PSAC East Division title with West Chester.

In 1995, he led Bloomsburg to a 9-1-1 record, only the third time in school history the Huskies had nine or more wins in a season.

The team won a share of the PSAC East Division title for the second straight season with a 5-0-1 league record. Following both the

1994 and 1995 seasons he was honored as the District I "Coach of the Year" by the American Football Coaches Association.

In his eight-year tenure at Bloomsburg, Hale's teams have posted winning seasons in all but two years. In 1993, the team rebounded from a 1-5 start to win four of the final five games. The Huskies did one better in 1994, winning each of the last five games en route to capturing a share of the PSAC East. In 1995, Bloomsburg won the last five games, and did not lose after suffering an opening-day loss at New Haven. In 1996, after a week two loss, the Huskies reeled off nine straight wins to close out the regular season and entered the NCAA Championships with the longest winning streak in Division II. In 1997, the Huskies dropped two games by a total of 10 points to finish at 8-2.In 1999 the Huskies finished 7-4 and were ranked among the leaders in the NCAA in several offensive categories.

Formerly the head coach at West Chester University, Hale had a 40-13 record in five seasons.

His top campaigns resulted in consecutive 9-2 records in 1987 and 1988, with a NCAA Division II playoff berth in 1988. His teams posted 7-3 marks in his first two seasons and an 8-3 record in 1986.

West Chester appeared throughout the team and individual national statistics and possessed the nation's top scoring offense and rushing defense in 1987.

The Golden Rams were in the national rankings throughout his time and achieved the highest ranking by a PSAC school to that point - number two in both 1987 and 1988. Prior to West Chester, Hale was the offensive line coach at Colgate. He went to Colgate from Bucknell, where he was the offensive line coach from 1975-80 and was defensive coordinator/linebacker coach at Vermont in 1974.

Hale is a graduate of West Chester, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in Health and Physical Education in 1968 and 1973. He was an all-conference pick at West Chester and earned the team's most valuable player award. A member of the West Chester Football Hall of Fame, Hale also lettered three seasons for the school's track and field unit.

Hale played one season for the Pottstown Firebirds, the semi professional farm club of the Philadelphia Eagles, before entering the Marine Corps where he played middle linebacker for the Quantico Marines. Following a three-year stint, he was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant in 1972.