Mark Slonaker

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Mark Slonaker

Sport Basketball
Place of birth Flag of the United States Rahway, New Jersey
Career highlights
Championships
A-Sun Regular Season Championship (2003)
Awards
A-Sun Coach of the Year (2003)
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

Mark Slonaker was 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 2007-2008 season[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Recipients, Jim Phelan Award. Accessed January 30, 2008.
  2. ^ Gomes, Jay. "Former Teaneck star Baker makes choice", Rivals.com, June 7, 2001. Accessed January 30, 2008. "Slonaker, a New Jersey native and a former Rahway High School standout, inked his first Garden State recruit in signing Baker, a native of Teaneck."
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