Mark Slonaker
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Mark Slonaker
| Mark Slonaker | |
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 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 1997–2008 |
The Lovett School Georgia State (asst.) Georgia State Georgia State (asst.) Georgia (asst.) Pensacola JC Mercer |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships A-Sun Regular Season Championship (2003) |
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| Awards A-Sun Coach of the Year (2003) |
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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
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