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Dan Mara
Danny "Dan" Mara is a retired College basketball (section Women's) coach who is in his ninth year as Commissioner of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and former Chair of the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. He spent 16 years directing a highly successful basketball camp at Mitchell College where he is considered a special alumni.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Central Atlantic )〕 As head coach at Mitchell, he coached ten Kodak All-Americans including future Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Rita Williams. Williams went on to University of Connecticut to lead them to the 1998 Big East Championship and was named tournament Most Valuable Player (MVP). She was the 12th pick in the 1998 WNBA Draft and was chosen as the first all-star game representative in Indiana Fever history. As coach of the New London, Connecticut junior college team, Mara was the legal guardian of the longest regular-season winning streak in college basketball. In his coaching career at Mitchell college, Mara still lived on campus, in Matteson Hall, a men's dorm. He roomed with Pep, a 16-year-old Samoyed and collie mix, who until the '94 basketball season sat beside him at home games. To players he is something of a father figure to potential athletes, because each year Mara looks after stray players who, for various reasons, have not found a place at a four-year college, and he makes them part of his family.
== Early years ==
Mara was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In an article for Sports Illustrated in 1994, he said, "Mitchell College adopted me when I had nothing left to lose." Dan Mara, then 39, was an only child whose father, James, died when Dan was two. Eighteen years later, while a sophomore at Mitchell, Mara lost his mother, Elizabeth, in a fire.
Mara graduated from Mitchell College in 1974 and earned a Bachelor's in English from Roger Williams University in 1976. After his college graduation, Mitchell offered him a summer job as a Residence hall director. He started his career in NJCAA at Mitchell College in 1976 as Sports information director. Mara was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director in 1978 and his duties included sports information as well as coordinating recruitment for all sports.
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