Daniel Meenan

Daniel Leo Meenan Jr. was an American basketball coach and speech pathologist who was the head men's basketball coach at Columbia University from 1925 to 1933 and the head of the Post-Laryngectomy Speech Clinic at the Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center from 1944 to 1950.

Basketball He was a starting guard for the Columbia Lions men's basketball team from 1912 to 1914. He was a member of the Columbia squad that won the 1912 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League and was captain of the 1914 team that was league co-champions with Cornell.

After graduating, Meenan worked in the aircraft industry, first with the Sloan Company, then with the Standard Aero company.

In 1925, Meenan was named head coach of his alma mater. He had no professional coaching experience, but had volunteered as an assistant at Columbia and Manhattan. Meenan led Columbia to three Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League championships (1926, 1930, 1931). He resigned in 1934 to work on Wall Street.