Ricardo Dalmau Santana (born August 27, 1977 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) is the youngest of three children of the legendary basketball player

Raymond Dalmau Raymond Dalmau Pérez (born October 27, 1948) is a retired Puerto Rican professional basketball player and coach. Dalmau played in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN), the top tier basketball league in the country, for 20 seasons with the Pir ...

. He began his professional

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career in 1995 with the Polluelos de Aibonito, under the coaching of his father. That year he earned the Puerto Rican League's ''Rookie of the Year Award''. The next year, he joined his eldest brother Richie in the

Piratas de Quebradillas The Piratas de Quebradillas is a Puerto Rican basketball team, part of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional league. Founded in the mid 1920s, it is one of the original teams of the league. The club enjoyed its most successful era during the 1970s, ...

, the basketball team where his father spent his entire career. Alongside his brother

Richie Dalmau Raymond ("Richie") Dalmau (born 1973 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico) is a retired basketball player from Puerto Rico, the eldest son of the legendary Raymond Dalmau. He began his professional career in 1991 with the Capitanes de Arecibo under the g ...

, he led Quebradillas to two Puerto Rican League Finals in 1999 and 2000, losing both of them to the Cangrejeros de Santurce. He participated with the Puerto Rican National Team in 1998 and 2002. By the end of 2003, Quebradillas had many financial problems and they lost the rights to all their players. Ricardo and his brother Richie moved to the Indios de Mayagüez for the 2004 season. However, both of them reunited with their father Raymond when they signed contracts with the Cangrejeros de Santurce for the 2005 season. Raymond was the head coach of the team. In the Cangrejeros of Santurce they contributed to the 2007 Puerto Rican national championship. Ricardo is also a Certified Public Accountant(CPA) and has been awarded by the Puerto Rico State CPA Association for his contribution to the accounting practice. Dalmau has also contributed to improving Puerto Rico's public education system. In 2008, he and his brother

participated in Sapientis Week, an initiative sponsored by the non-profit

Sapientis Sapientis is a nonprofit organization based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that improves public education to reduce poverty, stimulate economic growth, and enhance the standard of living in Puerto Rico. Context With over 500,000 children and over ...

which brings distinguished public figures into classrooms in order to raise the public's awareness of the education crisis in Puerto Rico. Since 2009 he served as Director of Audit Office Sports and Recreation Department. In 2011 the governor of Puerto Rico, Luis G. Fortuño, announced the appointment of Ricardo Dalmau Santana to the post of Inspector General of Puerto Rico which was approved by the House and Senate.

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1977 births Living people Baloncesto Superior Nacional players Piratas de Quebradillas players Puerto Rican men's basketball players Puerto Rican sports executives and administrators Basketball players at the 1999 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico Pan American Games medalists in basketball Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games {{PuertoRico-basketball-bio-stub