1. Mick Haley was born on August 18,1943 and is an American volleyball coach.
13 Facts About Mick Haley
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Mick Haley previously served for 17 seasons as the head coach of the University of Southern California women's volleyball team.
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Mick Haley has coached the US Women's National Team at the Olympics.
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Mick Haley was inducted into the Ball State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984.
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Mick Haley earned his bachelor's degree in education from Ball State in 1965.
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Mick Haley earned a master's degree in education from Southern Illinois University in 1966.
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Mick Haley coached at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan, for seven seasons.
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Mick Haley coached the Kellogg men to four national crowns during that time.
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Mick Haley was the head coach for the Texas Longhorns volleyball team.
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Mick Haley temporarily left collegiate coaching in order to coach the women's US National Team for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where the team fell short of the Bronze Medal to finish in fourth place.
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Mick Haley returned to collegiate coaching, but instead of returning to Texas, he took over for USC where it did not take long for the Women of Troy to reach national prominence.
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Mick Haley subsequently retained legal counsel to pursue an age discrimination complaint against USC.
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Mick Haley allegedly tried to cut the slots on the roster of the women's volleyball by one in order to sell the slot and when Mick refused dismissed him at the end of the season and told him his time had come and gone.