Soccer
Danielle Mendez
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- danielle.mendez@mso.umt.edu
- Phone:
- 243-4397
The 2019 season is Danielle Mendez’s second year as an assistant coach with the Montana soccer program. She trains the team’s goalkeepers.
In her first year working with the Grizzlies, she coached Claire Howard to honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference honors after Howard finished the season with 10 shutouts and a 1.09 goals-against average.
At the Big Sky tournament, Montana won three matches in five days, all over higher seeds, all by shutout, as the Grizzlies advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.
Mendez spent the 2017 season at North Dakota, working alongside Chris Citowicki on head coach Chris Logan’s staff.
In her one season with the Fighting Hawks, she coached Catherine Klein to Big Sky Conference Goalkeeper of the Year honors. Klein led the Big Sky in both save percentage (.890) and saves (8.07/g) while posting six shutouts.
Logan, and by extension his staff, was voted by his peers as the league’s Coach of the Year after the Fighting Hawks went 4-5-1 in conference matches, their best finish since joining the league in 2012.
Mendez played for Citowicki at St. Catherine, a Division III school in St. Paul, Minn., from 2012-15. She was a four-year starter for the Wildcats and graduated as the program’s career leader in goals-against average (1.44) and shutouts (19).
She graduated from St. Catherine in 2016 with a degree in exercise and sports science.
Mendez continued her playing career as a member of the Minnesota Twin Stars FC, a semi-professional team, in 2016 and ’17.
The Bloomington, Minn., native coached in both the Burnsville Fire Soccer Club and Minnesota Thunder Academy, dating back to her days as a collegiate player. She also volunteered as the goalkeepers coach at St. Catherine in 2016 following her graduation.
In her first year working with the Grizzlies, she coached Claire Howard to honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference honors after Howard finished the season with 10 shutouts and a 1.09 goals-against average.
At the Big Sky tournament, Montana won three matches in five days, all over higher seeds, all by shutout, as the Grizzlies advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.
Mendez spent the 2017 season at North Dakota, working alongside Chris Citowicki on head coach Chris Logan’s staff.
In her one season with the Fighting Hawks, she coached Catherine Klein to Big Sky Conference Goalkeeper of the Year honors. Klein led the Big Sky in both save percentage (.890) and saves (8.07/g) while posting six shutouts.
Logan, and by extension his staff, was voted by his peers as the league’s Coach of the Year after the Fighting Hawks went 4-5-1 in conference matches, their best finish since joining the league in 2012.
Mendez played for Citowicki at St. Catherine, a Division III school in St. Paul, Minn., from 2012-15. She was a four-year starter for the Wildcats and graduated as the program’s career leader in goals-against average (1.44) and shutouts (19).
She graduated from St. Catherine in 2016 with a degree in exercise and sports science.
Mendez continued her playing career as a member of the Minnesota Twin Stars FC, a semi-professional team, in 2016 and ’17.
The Bloomington, Minn., native coached in both the Burnsville Fire Soccer Club and Minnesota Thunder Academy, dating back to her days as a collegiate player. She also volunteered as the goalkeepers coach at St. Catherine in 2016 following her graduation.
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