Born in
Ottawa,
Ontario, Mungar attended
Highland Secondary School in
Dundas, Ontario, in the late 1970s where he starred at basketball. In 1981, he joined
St. Bonaventure but suffered a back injury early in the season and missed all but two games. During his final season with St. Bonaventure, he averaged 17.1 points and 8.0 rebounds and was named to the All-
Atlantic 10 Conference First-Team. Following his college career, he was drafted in the fourth round of the
1986 NBA draft, taken 82nd overall by the
Washington Bullets. After not making it to the final roster, Mungar left for Europe where he played professionally in Italy.
National team career Mungar participated with the
Canadian national team at the
1986 FIBA World Championship, the
1987 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament, the
1988 Tournament of the Americas (FIBA AmeriCup) and in the
1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. ==Personal life==