Background
Dollar was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Dollar was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dollar attended University of California, Los Angeles () and was a member of the 1995 Bruins national championship team Dollar attended in the fall of 1993.
Dollar was previously an assistant coach under Lorenzo Romar at the University of Washington. Dollar was recruited to while playing at a prep school in Maryland by then-Bruins assistant coach Mark Gottfried. Leading up to the final game against Arkansas in the 1995 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, the team was uncertain of the status of Tyus Edney, their starting point guard, who had injured his wrist in the semifinals against Oklahoma State.
During his four-year career, Dollar averaged 5.0 points, 3.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds.
"His leadership qualities were off the charts," Harrick said. "He was always an extension of the coach on the floor."
At age 22, Dollar was the country"s youngest college coach when he was first hired as a head coach at Southern California College, an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) school (now known as Vanguard University).
He served ten years (1999–2009) as an assistant to current Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar (including the last three years (1999–2002) of Romar"s tenure at Saint Louis), who was himself an assistant on Jim Harrick"s staff during Dollar"s career. Dollar"s time in Washington was marred by an incident in 2002 when he was suspended without pay for one month and had his pay reduced by 20 percent until April, 2003 (all up costing him over $13,000) because of a series of recruiting violations he made.
Dollar was hired in the spring of 2009 as head coach at Seattle University, which was transitioning to compete in Division I after dropping out in 1980.
Dollar has three children. Dollar hired Donald as an assistant at Seattle. Dollar"s mother was slain in Atlanta when Cameron was 4 years old.
Dollar is a Christian.
Quotations: "His leadership qualities were off the charts,".