Daniel Dunn
Daniel "Dan" Dunn was an outstanding football player at Sharon High School and Arizona State University, but it was in coaching where he really made his mark.
At Sharon, he was a member of the football team in 1961, '62 and '63 and received all-league and all-county honors.
He played four years at Arizona State and was named to the All-Western Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.
He spent 37 years in education as a teacher, coach and administrator in Arizona. As a head coach, his Gilbert High School teams won 3 state football championships (1973, '75 and '78) and finished runners-up 3 times. He also coached teams to state championships in track and wrestling. He won area coach of the year awards four times and served as all-star team coach twice. His aggregate head football coaching record over 21 years was 163-74-3. He was named Arizona High School Coach of the Year in 1978.
He went on to a long coaching and administrative career at Mesa Community College. He served as assistant football coach and head football coach and has been athletidirector since 2004. In 1989, the team was NJCAA National runner-up.
During his term as athletic director at Mesa, the school won the 2004-05 Pepsi/NATYCAA Award for having the No. 1 overall athletic program in the country among two-year colleges in the National Junior College Athletic Association Scholarship Division. The school was also third in 2003-2004.
He also served as assistant football coach at Red Mountain High, with the team winning Arizona State Class 5A titles in 2000 and 2001.
Dan has written several articles for national coaches magazines and has been a guest speaker for numerous coaching clinics in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Pennsylvania.