Dan Mader

Dan Mader enters his fourth season with the Nebraska volleyball program as a graduate manager in 2015. Mader also served as the master coach for the age 15-17 age division with Volleyball Club Nebraska in 2014, while also coaching the 14 Elite team.

Mader boasts experience as both a coach and player. For the past three seasons, he has been a coach with the Sports Performance Volleyball Club in Chicago. In 2012, Mader led the 18 Red team to an AAU national championship in the club division. The following season, Mader assisted Rick Butler with the 18 Elite team that won the national title in the open division.

As a player, Mader competed in 96 matches during his four-year career at IPFW from 2009 to 2012 under AVCA Hall of Fame coach Arnie Ball. A setter, Mader amassed 2,231 career assists, good for seventh in IPFW history. He also added 34 aces, 274 blocks and 279 digs in 96 career matches for the Mastadons.

As a freshman in 2009, Mader led IPFW with 670 assists, while adding 17 kills, 29 blocks, 63 digs and six aces. He enjoyed his best season as a sophomore in 2010, when he tallied 1,180 assists while averaging 12.69 assists per set. In addition to posting the 14th-highest single-season assist total in program history, Mader notched career-high totals of 65 assists, 14 digs, six blocks and five aces as a sophomore.

Mader split time as the Mastadons’ setter in 2011, compiling 368 assists, including a season-high 56 assists against Penn State, when he posted a double-double after tying his career high with 10 kills.

During his senior season in 2012, Mader appeared in 22 matches primarily as an attacker. He totaled a career-high 45 kills as a senior, including a career-high 11 kills against Grand Canyon. Mader added 13 assists, 13 blocks, 36 digs and three aces as a senior.

Following his playing career, Mader earned his bachelor’s degree in general studies degree and minors in anthropology and communications from IPFW in 2012. He is a native of Lombard, Ill.