Forester Handball

Career Highlights
	43rd season as Head Coach
	Guided the Foresters to 36 United States Handball Association Collegiate National Championships
	Lake Forest has won eight men's, women's and combined titles in the last 13 years
	Captured all three national team titles (men, women, and combined) in 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2010
	Member of Lake Forest College and United States Handball Association Halls of Fame
	Currently serves as chairman of the USHA and secretary of the Illinois Handball Association

The 2010-11 season will be the 43rd (1968-present) as head coach of the Forester handball program for Mike Dau '58.

Dau, a member of both the Lake Forest College Athletic and U.S. Handball Association (USHA) Hall of Fames, has led the Foresters to 36 total national championships. The Foresters title run began in 1971 and included a streak of seven straight national championships from 1978 to 1984. Lake Forest has claimed men's, women's, and combined championships eight times each in the last 13 years and have finished no worse than third in any of the team standings since 1996.

The Foresters claimed the men's, women's, and combined team championships at the 2010 USHA Collegiate Championships, joining the 2001, 2005, and 2009 squads as the only four in program history to win all three titles.

Eight Foresters earned a total of 13 Handball All-America honors in 2010. Nikolai Nahorniak defeated teammate Suhn Lee in the Men's Open final and the pair claimed the Open Doubles title with a victory over fellow Foresters Victor Perez and Pat Jarvis. On the women's side, Aimee Ulbert captured the Open Singles crown by defeating teammate Maria Dugas in the final. Dugas had eliminated Emily Zender - another Forester - in the semifinals. Ulbert and Dugas also knocked off Zender and Sarah Brusig in the Open Doubles championship match. Under Dau's direction, 64 players have been named All-America a total of 158 times with a combined 44 Open Singles and Open Doubles collegiate national championships.

While an undergraduate at Lake Forest, Dau earned varsity letters in track and football, was selected team Most Valuable Player of the 1957 College Conference of Illinois Championship squad, and received First Team Collegiate All-State (Peoria Journal Star) recognition and All-America honors. After graduating from Lake Forest in 1958, Dau entered the Marine Corps Officer Candidate program, played football again in 1959, earning All-Marine honors and served as an assistant coach for the 1960 and '61 seasons. He returned to Lake Forest College as an assistant football coach in 1962, coached at Carmel High School (IL) in 1963 and returned to Lake Forest in 1964, assisting in football and basketball. Dau was named head football coach in 1966 and served in that capacity until 1991. He has also served as baseball coach and athletic director.

With the completion of the Sports Center in 1968, handball was added to the athletic program and Dau was appointed the school's first head coach. A tournament player himself, Dau has won numerous local singles championships, advanced to the national Masters Doubles finals in 1980 and, at the age of 56, won the United States Marine Corps Open Doubles championship with his son, Perry. He currently serves as chairman of the USHA Hall of Fame committee and secretary of the Illinois Handball Association.

Coach Dau and his wife, Paula, also a 1958 graduate of Lake Forest College, reside in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Dau's Year-by-Year Finish at USHA Collegiate National Championships

YEAR	COMBINED	MEN	WOMEN
1969		Second
1970		Second
1971		*First (t)*
1972		Second
1973		Third
1974		*First*
1975		*First*
1976		*First*
1977		Third
1978		*First*
1979		*First*
1980		*First*
1981	*First*
1982	*First*
1983	*First*
1984	*First*
1985	*First*
1986	Fourth
1987		Seventh	Third
1988	*First*	Second	Second
1989		Second	Second
1990	Second	Second	Second
1991	Third	Third	Third
1992	Third	Third	Fourth
1993		Second	Sixth
1994	Fifth	Fourth	Seventh
1995	Fifth	Third	Fifth
1996	Third	Second	Fourth
1997	Second	Second	Second
1998	Second	*First*	Third
1999	Second	*First*	Second
2000	*First*	*First*	Second
2001	*First*	*First*	*First*
2002	*First*	Second	*First*
2003	*First*	Third	*First*
2004	Second	Third	*First*
2005	First	First	First
2006	Second	*First*	Second
2007	First	Second	First
2008	Second	Second	Second
2009	First	First	First
2010	*First*	*First*	*First*
Total	*36 National Championships*

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