32 Facts About Ron Mason

Ronald Herbert Mason was a Canadian ice hockey player, head coach, and university executive.

Ron Mason then served as senior advisor for the USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks.

On December 2,2013, Ron Mason was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

Ron Mason was born the son of Harvey Mason, a salesman, and Agnes Mackay Mason, an elementary school teacher.

Ron Mason married the former Marion Bell on June 8,1963.

Ron Mason played junior hockey with the Ontario Hockey Association's Peterborough Petes and the Ottawa Junior Canadians.

Ron Mason led the team in scoring twice earning back-to-back first-team all-league honors.

Ron Mason coached one NAIA program, Lake Superior State, and two NCAA programs, Bowling Green State and Michigan State in 36 seasons from 1966 to 2002.

Ron Mason won two national titles: NAIA in 1972 with Lake Superior State and NCAA in 1986 with Michigan State.

Ron Mason finished his coaching career as the all-time career victories leader in college hockey history with 924 wins.

Ron Mason is the career coaching victories leader at Michigan State with 635 wins.

Ron Mason is Bowling Green State's winningest coach by percentage winning over 71 percent of his 229 games at BGSU.

Ron Mason had 33 seasons with a winning record, 30 seasons winning 20 or more games and 11 seasons winning 30 or more games.

Ron Mason won ten CCHA regular season championships and a record 13 CCHA tournament titles.

Ron Mason won the Spencer Penrose Memorial Trophy as the national coach of the year in 1992.

On January 28,2002, Ron Mason made it official that he would leave his post as head ice hockey coach to become athletic director.

Ron Mason started the hockey program at Lake Superior State University in 1966.

Ron Mason guided the Lakers to the 1972 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national championship.

Michigan State University Athletic Director Joseph Kearney hired Ron Mason to replace the retiring Amo Bessone on April 1,1979.

Four seasons later in 1986, Ron Mason led Michigan State to the school's second national title.

Ron Mason began his duties as athletic director on July 1,2002.

On November 4,2002, after a disappointing season and a series of off-the-field incidents with players, Mason fired head football coach Bobby Williams with three games left in the season and eventually hired John L Smith away from Louisville as his permanent replacement.

Ron Mason fired Smith after three consecutive losing seasons, and Ron Mason then hired Mark Dantonio away from Cincinnati, who brought the Spartans to football prominence.

Ron Mason is the only person to have won NCAA ice hockey titles as head coach and athletic director.

Ron Mason placed a priority seat licensing program in Spartan Stadium based on years of holding season tickets, contribution to the Ralph Young Fund, and a licensing fee for better seats on top of the price of season tickets.

In September 2006, Michigan State University's board of trustees approved a contract extension for Ron Mason extending his contract as MSU's athletic director through June 2008.

Ron Mason retired from the post of athletic director at Michigan State University on January 1,2008, and was succeeded by Mark Hollis.

When Ron Mason began coaching in 1966 there were only two major conferences in the NCAA, the Eastern College Athletic Conference and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

Ron Mason's coaching tenure at Bowling Green State produced the CCHA's first NCAA tournament berth, first appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four, and first national No 1 ranking.

Ron Mason is one of a handful of coaches to win national championships at two different institutions, as he led LSSU to the NAIA national championship in 1972 and MSU to the NCAA national title in 1986.

Ron Mason was the honorary chairperson for the Children's Miracle Network, which has raised $19 million-plus since 1989.

Ron Mason died on the morning of June 13,2016, in Haslett, Michigan, after suffering a heart attack.