Dan Waterman

Assistant Coach, Men's Basketball
E-mail: dwaterma@nmu.edu
Telephone: 906-227-2526 
At NMU Since

Waterman spent three seasons (2003-06) as the boy’s basketball coach at Westwood High School where he was 41-24. His team during the 2004-05 season was the Mid-Peninsula Conference co-champions and ranked fourth in the final AP Class C poll. For that season, Waterman, was named the AP Michigan Class C Coach of the Year and the Upper Peninsula ClassABC Coach of the Year. The team was recognized as the Upper Peninsula Class C Team of the Year.

Waterman was also the junior varsity (1999-03), freshman (1998-99) and assistant boy’s varsity coach at Westwood (1997-03). During the 2002-03 season he served Ellis as a student-assistant coach at NMU. Waterman has worked as a coach at basketball camps at Westwood, Alma College and at the B.U.C.S. Camp.

He graduated from Westwood in 1994 before moving on to Michigan Tech where he was a three-year letterwinner on the men’s basketball team. Waterman was a two-year starter for the Huskies and was named to the GLIAC All-Defensive Team as a junior.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from NMU in social studies-history in 2003. Waterman is currently pursuing his master’s degree.

He and his wife, Pam, have two sons:  Jason and Caleb.