Dan Doyle

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Dan Doyle is the Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport, and 1970 graduate of Bates College. He received his Master's degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He holds honorary doctorates from Bridgewater State College and the University of Rhode Island.

Dan was an assistant men's basketball coach at Brown University, and head men's basketball coach at both Kingswood-Oxford School in Connecticut, and at Trinity College (Connecticut). He compiled an overall coaching record of 142-45, and in his last year at Trinity, where his team ended the season ranked 13th in the country, he was named New England College Coach of the Year.

Doyle founded the Institute for International Sport in 1986 after writing a paper at the Fletcher School regarding the creation of such an Institute. Among the programs Dan has conceived are:

• National Sportsmanship Day - The 17th annual NSD was recently celebrated in over 13,500 schools in all 50 states, and in countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, India and Australia.
• The World Scholar-Athlete Games - in July 2006, the World Scholar-Athlete Games welcomed delegations from 157 countries and all 50 states -
• making it the largest sports/cultural event in the world in 2006 in terms of countries represented. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton delivered
• the keynote address at the Games. In May 2006, the Institute announced the World Scholar-Athlete Games partnership with the United Nations.
• The Center for Sports Parenting - a website-based program which, using the services of 30 national parenting experts, offered free sports
• parenting advice.
• The Irish-American Sports Foundation, an all-volunteer organization which, under Doyle's direction, raised over 4 million dollars to construct
• the Irish National Basketball Arena in Dublin, Ireland.
• The New England Basketball Hall of Fame which, in its fourth year, attracted nearly 1,200 people to the biennial dinner.
• The International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame.
• The Center for Sports Leadership - the Institute's second building, the Center for Sports Leadership, is presently under construction. and will
• open in Spring, 2008.
• Hall of Fame Press - Doyle's interest in literature has led to the creation of a new Institute initiative, "Hall of Fame Press."
• The 2011 World Youth Peace Summit