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Coaching Staff 
 Mike
Dau '58
Running Backs Coach Coach Dau, a Lake Forest College Athletic Hall of Famer, is in his 43rd season with the Lake Forest football program (4 years as a player, 24 years as the team's head coach, and 14 years, including the last nine, as an assistant coach. He played a major role in Lake Forest's last three conference championship teams (2002, 1983, and 1957). In 1957, Dau was the Most Valuable Player for the Forester's CCI championship squad. He was also named to the Little All-America team as an offensive lineman in that year. In 1983, Dau guided Lake Forest to a 7-2 record and the 1983 MCAC championship as the team's head coach. The 1983 team's victory total tied the school record for most wins a season, a record that was broken by the 2002 MWC Championship team. Dau served as the team's head coach from 1966-91 and has won more games than any other coach in school history. He has spent the last nine years as the Forester's running backs coach and has coached a First Team All-MWC back during five of those seasons (John Klasen in 1995, Corey Honore in 1996 and 1997, David Fee in 1998, and Tom Starnicky in 2000). Dau has also coached baseball, basketball, track, and currently, handball, and was the College's athletic director from 1975-91. Under Dau's direction, the Forester handball program has collected 24 national championships. Dau is an inductee of two Halls of Fame - the Lake Forest College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977 and the U.S. Handball Association Hall of Fame in 1988. Coach Dau and his wife, Paula, live in Lake Forest.
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