Lakeland Community College's athletics staff welcomed Mark Mallon as their new head women's soccer coach on March 3, 2022.

In his inaugural season with the Lakers, Mallon led the team to a 6-6-1 record, including an impressive 4-2-1 home record. The women's soccer team tallied four shutouts on the season, including a 7-0 win at home against Terra State on Sept. 7. The seven goals marked a season-high for the Lakers.

Mallon owns a distinguished fourteen year career in collegiate coaching and program administration at Rutgers, Yale, and University of California - Berkeley. 

Mallon first coached college soccer at Rutgers DIII campus in NJ while teaching Health Education at Voorhees Middle School and pursuing Master's Degree study in Sports Administration at Temple University.

After Rutgers, Mark Mallon was named the first full-time associate men's soccer coach at Yale University in 1989 and success quickly followed with two NCAA Championship appearances during the best four year period (1989-92) in Yale Men's Soccer history while coaching with Steve Griggs. The Bulldogs won two Ivy League titles and reached the NCAA Tournament Championships in 1989 (Sweet Sixteen) and 1991 (quarterfinals), compiling a 20-6-2 Ivy League record and two Championships in four seasons.  While at Yale Mark’s U16 Girls Guilford SC team won the State Championship and his Boys U15 Redding Rebels were state champion semi-finalist.

After Yale, Mark Mallon was named Head Men's Soccer Coach at the University of California Berkeley (CAL), where he built a reputation as one of the nation's brightest coaches, leading the Golden Bears program to one of the most dramatic turnarounds in division I college soccer history, guiding CAL Men's Soccer from 145th to a school best ranking of #2 in the nation and #1 in the Far West Region in just three years at the helm. During his seven year tenure at CAL, Mallon established the Rolling Thunder adidas endowed Scholarship fund and raised $1 million dollars.  Mark Mallon also left a legacy at CAL after he proposed the Edwards Stadium renovation, personally gave the first donation, and spearheaded the fundraising effort for a $3.5 million renovation project leading to combined soccer/track namesake  donor of Goldman Field (named after Dick and Rhoda Goldman, former owners of the Oakland A's MLB franchise).

After UC Berkeley, Mallon served for seven years as Director of Coaching & Player Development for the 2,800 member youth soccer non-profit San Ramon Soccer club.  While at San Ramon, he trained, coached and developed all of the players and coaches.  He also coached two teams from U10-U14 age that included David Bingham and Andrew Wiedeman, who both went on to collegiate careers at UC Berkeley and then MLS professional soccer.  Dallas Jaye, USL professional Goalkeeper of the Year was a member of one of those San Ramon Soccer Club teams.  His father Jeff, is founder of iSoccerPath an NCAA approved student athlete recruitment service.   

Coach Mallon has trained seven players for MLS including Cal alums Richard Weiszmann, Troy Roberts, Chris Roner, Steve Rullo, David Bingham, Andrew Wiedeman, and Leonid Krupnik. He has coached in the Olympic Development Program for NJ, CT, CA and Region I ODP Staff winning the Far West Region Championship and participating in the inaugural Snickers Youth National Championships.

Mark was selected to the coaching staff for the inaugural Adidas Summer League at IMG (Bradenton, Florida) and coached some of the nation’s top future prospects including Caleb Porter and many other MLS players. While at UC Berkeley, Mallon hired Lyle Yorks as his assistant coach at CAL Berkeley prior to Lyle becoming one of the top player agents in America. 

Mark transitioned his career in California and moved to Ohio full-time in 2006 to single parent his daughter Meredith, now a sophomore at Ohio University and his "best contribution to the world". He founded The Soccer Institute seventy five acre camp, training center, and youth club soccer program until 2017-2018 when Mallon was named Director of the US Soccer Development Academy in Tampa, Florida and served in an interim role to develop the program and train Blake Wagner ( a US Youth National Team assistant coach) to become the next director of the Tampa Bay Rowdies Soccer Club Academy.

Mark has coached youth, club, and high school in NE Ohio at Riverside HS Girls (PAC Champions), Perry HS Boys, Orange HS girls, Cornerstone Christian Academy Boys & Girls Soccer Director and as TSI Premier FC Director of Coaching. 

Mallon earned NSCAA Division II regional All-America honors as a scholarship student-athlete at West Chester University, where he graduated with a B.S. Health & Physical Education K-12 teaching degree and sports management minor. 

Mark is one of the highest credentialed soccer coaches in America, having attained the United States Soccer Federation A License, Premier and Advanced National United Soccer Coaches Diploma, the FA International Badge from England, and FA International Badge from Scotland.

Lakeland Coaching Record - Mark Mallon