- Mark Slonaker
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Mark Slonaker Sport(s) Basketball Biographical details Place of birth Rahway, New Jersey, USA Playing career 1975–1979 Georgia Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1980–1983
1983–1984
1984–1985
1985–1989
1989–1995
1995–1997
1997–2008The Lovett School
Georgia State (asst.)
Georgia State
Georgia State (asst.)
Georgia (asst.)
Pensacola JC
MercerAccomplishments and honors Championships A-Sun Regular Season Championship (2003) Awards A-Sun Coach of the Year (2003) Mark Slonaker is an American college basketball coach. He is the former head men's basketball coach at Mercer University. He was the 2002–03 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year after leading Mercer to the best one season turnaround in NCAA history, improving from 6–23 to 23–6. The team won the Atlantic Sun regular season championship with a 14–2 conference record and made school history for number of wins (23); Mercer won 22 games in 1923–24 and 1984–85. The season ended with a loss in the Atlantic Sun tournament. Slonaker was the first National Coach of the Year to receive the award after it was named in honor of Jim Phelan.[1]
Slonaker grew up in Rahway, New Jersey, where he attended Rahway High School.[2]
Slonaker's contract was not renewed after the 2007–08 season.[3]
References
- ^ Recipients, Jim Phelan Award. Accessed January 30, 2008.
- ^ Gomes, Jay. "Former Teaneck star Baker makes choice", Rivals.com, June 7, 2001. Accessed January 30, 2008. "Situation, a New Jersey native and a former Rahway High School standout, inked his first Garden State recruit in signing Baker, a native of Teaneck."
- ^ http://www2.mercer.edu/News/Articles/2008/080226slonaker.htm
Georgia State Panthers men's basketball head coaches Stoney Burgess (1963–1964) • Richard Wehr (1964–1967) • Jack Waters (1967–1970) • Frank Davis (1970–1971) • Roger McDowell (1971–1972) • Jack Waters (1972–1977) • Roger Couch (1977–1981) • Jim Jarrett (1981–1983) • Tom Pugliese (1983–1984) • Mark Slonaker # (1984–1985) • Bob Reinhart (1985–1994) • Carter Wilson (1994–1997) • Lefty Driesell (1997–2003) • Michael Perry (2003–2007) • Rod Barnes (2007–2011) • Paul Graham # (2011) • Ron Hunter (2011– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.
Mercer Bears men's basketball head coaches C. C. McClure (1908–1909) • Homes Maxon (1909–1910) • C. C. Stroud (1910–1913) • J. J. Scully (1913–1915) • Unknown (1915–1916) • J. C. Clements (1916–1917) • Charles Morgan (1917–1918) • Unknown (1918–1919) • J. C. Clements (1919–1920) • Unknown (1920–1921) • John Cody (1921–1923) • M. P. Gilliam (1923–1925) • John M. King (1925–1926) • Bernie Moore (1926–1928) • Oscar Long (1928–1929) • Lake Russell (1929–1930) • Smokey Harper (1930–1931) • No team (1931–1932) • Lake Russell (1932–1934) • Jimmy Slocum (1934–1936) • Lake Russell (1936–1939) • Jimmy Daugherty (1939–1940) • No team (1940–1944) • Cliff Snow (1944–1945) • No team (1945–1946) • James Cowan (1946–1951) • Dan Nymicz (1951–1953) • James Cowan (1953–1956) • Robert Wilder (1956–1970) • Dwane Morrison (1970–1973) • Joe Dan Gold (1973–1974) • Bill Bibb (1974–1989) • Brad Siegfried (1989–1991) • Bill Hodges (1991–1997) • Mark Slonaker (1997–2008) • Bob Hoffman (2008– )
Jim Phelan Award winners Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year 1979: Fant | 1980: Bibb | 1981: Iba | 1982: Kestenbaum | 1983: Kerns | 1984: Hanks | 1985: Bibb | 1986: Newell | 1987: Kerns | 1988: Kerns | 1989: Newell | 1990: Vardeman | 1991: Vardeman | 1992: Kerns | 1993: Weltlich | 1994: Kresse | 1995: Hipsher | 1996: Lee | 1997: Kresse | 1998: Kresse | 1999: Tillette | 2000: Maestri | 2001: Driesell | 2002: Green | 2003: Slonaker | 2004: Maestri | 2005: Scruggs | 2006: Sanderson | 2007: Bartow | 2008: Byrd | 2009: Warren | 2010: Laing | 2011: Byrd
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