In 2016, Mendel will lead the Curry Men’s Soccer team for his tenth season. In 2015 his squad qualified for the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament quarterfinals. The team finished with a 10-9-1 overall record.
In 2014, he led his team to the Commonwealth Coast Conference Quarterfinals. Following that tournament his squad earned a bid to the ECAC Division III Tournament as the #6 seed. The Colonels defeated the #3 seed Bridgewater State to advance them into the Semifinals where they fell to the #1 seed Endicott College. Curry finished the season with an 11-10-1 overall record.
A native of Adams, Massachusetts, Mendel is a graduate of Endicott College where he earned his degree in sport management. He was a four-year letterman with the soccer program. He was an All-State player in high school and was inducted into the Berkshire County Soccer Hall of Fame for his stellar career at Hoosac Valley High School.
Mendel started his coaching career as an assistant coach at Salem State College, where he helped turn around a program that had four wins in 2004 to a 14-win season in 2006. While at Salem, Mendel was in charge of recruitment and retention for the men’s soccer program.
Mendel holds his NSCAA National and Advanced National Diplomas as well as his State Goalkeeping Diploma. He also has his Master’s Degree in Higher Education in Student Affairs from Salem State College. Mendel is the Assistant Director of Coaching for the Real Boston Soccer Academy and Assistant General Manager / Assistant Coach for the USLP PDL franchise Real Boston Rams.
During the summers Mendel works as site coordinator for the NSCAA Coaching courses and works numerous camps and clinics in New England. Mendel was also voted “College Coach of the Year” in 2013 by the Eastern Mass Soccer Coaches Association for his work in growing the game in Eastern Massachusetts.