{"id":38495,"date":"2025-10-01T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=38495"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:20:06","slug":"dan-harding-athletic-hall-of-fame-inductee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/awards-nominations\/alumni-awards-and-athletic-hall-of-fame-program\/dan-harding-athletic-hall-of-fame-inductee\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Harding \u201900 \u2014 2025 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dan Harding \u201900 \u2014 2025 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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For student-athletes like Dan Harding sports is an essential component of a K-Plan<\/em>\u2014sometimes the essential component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan credits his K-Plan<\/em> for its role in shaping his independence and self-confidence\u2014two values that have served him well in graduate school (MBA, Marquette University, 2005) and during his 25-year career in corporate management at US Bank, where he currently serves on the company\u2019s insurance specialty team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Components of that influential K-Plan<\/em> include a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics, study abroad in Germany and his accomplishments as a men\u2019s tennis team Hornet. Among the latter: All-American in singles (once); Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association First Team (twice); MIAA Most Valuable Player (twice); and All-American in doubles (three times). In two of those three All-American doubles seasons he was partnered with his brother, Kyle, a fellow 2025 Hall of Fame inductee. Playing doubles with his brother is one of two accomplishments of which Dan is most proud. The other: winning the Regional Rolex tournament in singles and doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan\u2019s excellence on the court and in the classroom earned him honors as a CoSIDA Academic All-District IV Second Team selection in his senior year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hornet teams on which he played won four conference championships (overall record: 23-0) and finished in the top 10 in the country every year Dan played\u2014second (1997), third (1998), second (1999), and ninth (2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennis and the Harding family are so tightly entwined they are almost indistinguishable. In addition to Kyle, Dan\u2019s brother Matt also played tennis for K, and his sister, Heather, played collegiate tennis at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful to my parents for their years of tennis instruction and tournament support,\u201d says Dan. \u201cAnd I appreciate my wife, Suzie\u2019s, understanding over the years. She still lets me play each week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m also grateful to our brilliant 11-year-old daughter, Lilly,\u201d he adds. \u201cShe has been playing tennis since she was three years old and is graciously allowing me to be her coach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan’s Athletic Achievements at Kalamazoo College<\/strong><\/summary>
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