Gettysburg College Men's Soccer

Mettrick begins his third season as head men's soccer coach at Gettysburg College in 2016. Before coming to Gettysburg, Mettrick completed a highly-successful 14-year stint as head coach at Loyola University in Baltimore. He posted a record of 166-84-25 (.649) and guided the Greyhounds to five NCAA Division I Tournament appearances, advancing as far as the Round of 16 in 2001. A native of Manchester, England, Mettrick also coached Loyola to eight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) regular-season titles and four MAAC tournament titles. A five-time MAAC Coach of the Year, he also captured two NCAA Division I Regional Coach the Year awards (2001, 2008) and was a two-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Coach of the Year finalist. Also at Loyola, Mettrick coached two All-Americans, two Major League Soccer draft picks, and three Lowes Senior CLASS finalists. He also guided 49 all-conference selections, six MAAC Players of the Year, three MAAC Goalkeepers of the Year, and two MAAC Rookies of the Year. He also helped his program build a reputation of academic success, and the mens soccer team finished with the highest grade-point average (3.411) of all mens teams at Loyola in the fall of 2013. His student-athletes have also earned five NSCAA Team Academic Awards and three Academic All-America honors. Prior to arriving at Loyola, Mettrick served as the head coach at Division I Mount St. Marys University in Emmitsburg, Md. from 1994-99. He guided the Mount to a record of 57-42-12 to go with a pair of Northeast Conference (NEC) titles and was twice named the NEC Coach of the Year. For his career, Mettrick owns a record of 242-138-39 (.624). In addition to his coaching duties, Mettrick has run the highly-successful Mark Mettrick Professional Soccer Schools in the summer months throughout the state of Maryland. Mettrick played for Manchester United (English Premier League) as a youth and progressed as far as their reserve team before leaving for the States. A 1988 graduate of Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., Mettrick earned his bachelor of science degree in physics and was a two-time Division I First-Team All-American for the Hawks. He is currently tied for fourth in school history in career goals (46) and is tied for fifth in career points (109). After graduation, Mettrick was a first-round draft pick by the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). As a midfielder, he would go on to enjoy a solid four-year career with the MISLs Baltimore Blast, earning All-Star accolades in 1992 and twice helping the Blast reach the MISL championship game. He served as assistant mens soccer coach at Mount St. Marys in 1993 before taking over as head coach the following season. Mettrick and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Haley.