Dan Monson
Monson at 2012 Big West Tournament
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Long Beach State |
| Conference | Big West |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
October 6, 1961 Spokane, Washington |
| Alma mater | Idaho |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1986–1988 | UAB (asst.) |
| 1988–1997 | Gonzaga (asst.) |
| 1997–1999 | Gonzaga |
| 1999–2006 | Minnesota |
| 2007–present | Long Beach State |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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WCC Tournament championship (1999) 2× WCC regular season championship (1998, 1999) 2× Big West regular season championship (2011, 2013) |
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Daniel Lloyd Monson (born October 6, 1961) is an American college basketball coach, the head coach at Long Beach State since April 2007. Previously he was head coach at Minnesota for over seven seasons (1999 - 2006) reaching postseason play five times. Before coaching the Gophers, he was the head coach at Gonzaga for two seasons, the last of which leading the Zags on an improbable run to the Elite Eight.
Monson is the son of college basketball coach Don Monson, and spent most of his early years in eastern Washington, where his father was a successful high school head coach in Cheney and Pasco for 18 seasons. At age 14, the family moved from Pasco to East Lansing, Michigan, where Don was an assistant coach for Jud Heathcote at Michigan State for two seasons.
They moved to Moscow, Idaho, at the start of his junior year, when his father became the head coach of his alma mater, the University of Idaho, in August 1978. He graduated from Moscow High School in 1980 and played college football a few blocks away as a receiver for the Idaho Vandals, then under head coach Jerry Davitch. Monson suffered a knee injury that ended his playing career, and focused on coaching; he graduated from Idaho with a degree in secondary education (mathematics) in 1985.
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