David Daus
Coach Daus has been
coaching and teaching in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex since 1981. He is a
1976 graduate of Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey and attained
his Bachelor of Arts: History and Geography from Texas Christian University in
1980.
Coach Daus started his teaching career in 1981 at Nolan High School where he
taught world history and world geography and served as the head varsity boys’
basketball and baseball coach. From 1989 to 1992 he served in similar roles at
Northside High School before moving on to Arlington Heights High School, where
he was head cross country coach and head girls’ track coach from 1992-2001 and
head varsity boys’ basketball coach from 1992-1998. From 2001-2016, Coach Daus
served as advanced placement world history teacher and head varsity girls’ and
boys’ cross country coach as well as head girls’ track coach at Boswell High
School.
In his years of coaching, Coach Daus’ teams have a won 24 boys’ and girls’
district cross country championships and have made countless trips to Austin
where his teams and individuals have competed (and medaled) at state meets. And
it’s no mere coincidence he keeps going back to Austin. Through the years,
Coach Daus has been known to approach students in the hallway if he thinks they
could be a great runner. He’s taken JV runners and molded them into varsity
athletes because, as a former athlete once said, Coach Daus can see potential
in students who may not be able to see it in themselves.
In the classroom, Coach Daus has the same approach. He doesn’t just teach world
history – he appreciates it. He sits at his kitchen table and pours over the
Wall Street Journal in the chance he might find an article to clip out and take
to his students to show them how a modern event ties back to something in our
country’s or world’s history. And because of his attitude toward the subject,
he has the uncanny ability to get teenagers excited about world history.
He lives in Fort Worth with his wife, Cathy, and their three rambunctious dogs.
Daus enjoys spending time with his step-son, Charles, and is a die-hard TCU
Horned Frog and Green Bay Packer’s fan.
