Doug Mello
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Harwinton, Connecticut, United States | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1974–1977 | Aquinas College | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1979–1982 | Aquinas College | ||
| 1983–1988 | Siena Heights University | ||
| 1989 | College of the Southwest | ||
| 1990–2007 | Luther College | ||
| 1995 | Des Moines Menace | ||
| 1996 | Sioux City Breeze | ||
| 1997–1998 | Tallahassee Scorpions | ||
| 2008–2013 | Hendrix College | ||
| – | Carroll College | ||
Doug Mello is an American soccer coach and the head coach of the newly formed Carroll College men’s soccer team. He holds the record for the number of collegiate games coached and was the 1995 USISL Premier League Coach of the Year.
Mello graduated from Lewis S. Mills High School where he played soccer and was an All State track athlete. He attended Aquinas College in Michigan.[1] He graduated in 1978. In 1979, Aquinas hired Mello as its men’s soccer coach. In 1983, he moved to Siena Heights University where he served as head coach of the men’s team from 1983 to 1988 and the women’s team from 1986 to 1988. Mello compiled an 81-35-12 record with the men and 53-10-6 with the women.[2] In 2002, Siena Heights University inducted Mello into its Hall of Fame. In 1989, Mello spent a single season at the College of the Southwest before moving to Luther College in Iowa. Mello coached at Luther College until 2007. In addition to his collegiate duties, Mello also served as head coach of the Des Moines Menace during the 1995 USISL Premier League season. He was co-Coach of the Year with fellow Menace head coach Blair Reid. Mello and Reid took the Menace to the Sizzlin’ Four Tournament where they finished fourth.[3] In 1996, Mello was sole head coach of the Sioux City Breeze.[1] In 1997 and 1998, he moved indoors with the Tallahassee Scorpions of the Eastern Indoor Soccer League.[4] By the time Mello left Luther College in 2008, he had compiled a 240-119-13 record with the men’s team and a 219-120-26 record with the women’s team.[5] From 2008 to 2013, Mello served as head coach of the Hendrix College men’s team. He has coached more games than any person in collegiate history with 1,154 games and will add to that total this fall when the Fighting Saints hit the field for the first time.