U16 Coach Bio

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U16 Team Coach Biography
Last Updated 1/24/10

We are pleased to introduce to you our coach for the U16 team for the 2010 season!

Donald E. Czarapata Jr.

Don has twenty years of exemplary service as a Naval Officer/Aviator. He has proven leadership capabilities in management of people and resources. For the last 3 years of his military experience, he was Executive Officer (2nd in command) of the Navy's largest education and training command. He possesses superb teaching skills and curriculum development abilities.

In addition to his extensive military career, he also has 15 years of teaching and coaching experience, including:

- Executive Officer, Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, IL, the Navy’s only Boot Camp. Led 1,100 staff at the Navy’s largest training and education command; responsible for transforming 43,000 civilians into Sailors annually; oversaw 37 buildings and a $7.5M budget.

- Flight Instructor. Recognized throughout the Navy’s flying community as an expert instructor and tactician. Hand-selected on several occasions to teach advanced tactics and lead multiple aircraft/aircrew into combat. Led over 20 instructors in classroom, simulator and hands-on flight training on a daily basis for new aircrew.

- Trained and educated North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Organized multiple 2-week-long training exercises for over 800 participants from more than 20 nations in preparation for real-world operations in Kabul, Afghanistan.

- Assistant Ice Hockey Coach, Math Teacher, and Assistant Baseball Coach, Culver Military Academy Culver, IN.

- Assistant Junior Varsity College Ice Hockey Coach, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL.

- Squirt & Mite AA Ice Hockey Coach, Falcon’s Youth Hockey, Highland Park, IL.

- Squirt A Ice Hockey Coach, Eagle River Youth Hockey, Eagle River, WI.

- Over 35 years ice hockey playing experience including Lake Forest College & Marquette University.

- USA Hockey Level III Coaching Certification.

- Currently student teaching at Northland Pines High School, Eagle River, WI - working towards Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction Teaching certification in Mathematics K-12, complete Jun 2010.

Thank you Don, and have a great season!