Lamar Hunt Jr.

Lamar Hunt Jr. (born October 20, 1956) is an American businessman. Hunt is president and owner of the Kansas City Mavericks professional hockey team. He is the son of Lamar Hunt, grandson of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, and part of the founding and operating family of the Kansas City Chiefs NFL team. Early life and education Lamar Hunt Jr. was born to Lamar and Rose Mary Whittle Hunt on October 20, 1956. He grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he spent the first 11 years of his life. Lamar and Rose Mary Hunt separated when Lamar Hunt Jr. was five years old and divorced In the summer of 1963. His childhood was spent between both parents, his father and his father's new wife, Norma Knobel, whom he married in 1964 and his mother and her new husband, a Texas businessman named John David Carr. Hunt attended private school at St. Mark's School of Texas, an all-boys school located in North Dallas. After graduating from high school, Hunt attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (UCCCM). He received a Master of Arts in Counseling in May 2003 from Dallas Baptist University. Music career While in high school, Hunt studied with David Vornholt, a flutist from the Dallas Symphony. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1979, Hunt attended Duquesne University, where he received a masters degree in music. He then auditioned for the Kansas City Symphony and became second flute in the orchestra. He also recorded an album at St. James Catholic Church in Liberty, MO of Bach's flute sonatas in 1990.