Former Bethany University basketball coach Dan Mooney was named the head varsity basketball coach at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville this week.
“It’s important to me to mentor the kids, to develop their enthusiasm and to help them as they grow into team players,” Mooney said in a media release.
Mooney coached the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Bethany for five seasons before stepping down in 2007.
Mooney has been involved coaching hoops in Scotts Valley this year.
This summer, Mooney developed two Amateur Athletic Union basketball teams in the under-14 through under-16 age bracket and directed the Back to Basics basketball camp at Scotts Valley High School.
The move affects the Scotts Valley High varsity basketball team as well.
Mooney’s youngest son, Josh, was the starting point guard for the Scotts Valley varsity team during the 2008-09 season, but he will follow his father and transfer to MVC for his sophomore year.
Mooney was an All-American player at University of New Paltz in New York before being selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 1982 NBA draft. He chose to play in Germany instead, playing for a handful of European teams, and then in the NBA and the Continental Basketball Association.
