Dawson CC Athletics

Don Mast coached basketball for 35 years, including coaching the Buccaneers basketball team for a quarter century from 1990-2015.  He finished at DCC with a career record of 439-330, averaging 17 wins a season.  Mast held the distinction of being the longest tenured men’s college basketball coach in Montana at the time of his retirement. Under his leadership, the Buccaneers won the Mon-Dak Championship in 2004, the North Sub-Region Championship in 1996, 2001 and 2004, reached the Region IX quarterfinals six times, semifinals four times and finished as runners up in the Region IX Tournament twice.  Coach Mast won four Coach of the Year awards while at Dawson and coached 40 All-Conference players, 4 All-Region players and numerous Academic All-Conference student-athletes at DCC.  He also taught psychology and communications at Dawson.

Mast received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history and political science with a minor in psychology from Rocky Mountain College in 1979, where he participated on the basketball team. In 1991, he earned a Master’s of Educational Guidance from Montana State University.  

Mast’s first teaching and coaching job was at Winifred High School, where he taught grades 7-12 history and senior government and coached basketball, football, and track, while he also served as the athletic director. During his second stop, Mast taught Montana history and was the guidance counselor and coached basketball and football at White Sulphur Springs High School.

The Rocky Mountain College Athletic Hall of Fame inducted Mast in 2015.  In 35 years and over 1,000 games, his career coaching record was 598-412. 

Mast and his wife Brenda reside in Glendive.