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H E A D C O A C H M A R K M A U E R<br />
GOLDEN BEAR FOOTBALL • GOLDEN BEAR FOOTBALL • GOLDEN BEAR FOOTBALL<br />
Heading into his fifth season<br />
leading the Golden Bears, Mark<br />
Mauer, the 2005 NSIC Coach of<br />
the Year, has accumulated a 25-20<br />
overall record while guiding CU to<br />
a 17-13 mark in the Northern Sun.<br />
Mauer was able to lead Concordia<br />
to a Northern Sun championship in<br />
just his second year at the helm of<br />
the program as the team finished<br />
tied for a school record in wins,<br />
finishing 9-3 overall while going 6-<br />
1 in the conference. The season<br />
was highlighted by the program’s<br />
second trip to the Mineral Water Bowl. The Northern Sun title and the<br />
Mineral Water Bowl berth were each accomplished for the second time<br />
in three years in 2005.<br />
In his first season with Concordia, Mauer led the team to a 7-4 overall<br />
finish, including a 4-3 mark in Northern Sun action. The final record<br />
doesn’t tell the complete story of the success the team enjoyed, as<br />
Mauer had the Bears a win away from their second consecutive bid to<br />
the Mineral Water Bowl, as they fell a touchdown shy in their final game<br />
against conference champs Winona State in the Metrodome Classic.<br />
The Golden Bears have recorded at least a .500 record in the NSIC<br />
seven times since they joined the league eight years ago in 1999, a<br />
streak carried over by Mauer’s teams in his three seasons with the<br />
program.<br />
Mauer became Concordia’s ninth head coach prior to the 2004 season.<br />
He took over a program that was the defending Northern Sun<br />
Intercollegiate Conference Champs. Mauer's storied career has taken<br />
him from the front steps of St. Paul Harding High School to Nebraska<br />
to Indiana to New Mexico and back to Minnesota again.<br />
At the University of Nebraska, he was a two-sport athlete as a standout<br />
in both football and baseball. He played three years of quarterback for<br />
the Cornhuskers, earning Tom Novak Most Valuable Offensive Player<br />
Award as a team captain in 1982.<br />
His coaching experience began in 1984 as a quarterback and receivers<br />
coach at Ball State (1987-1991) in Muncie, IN. From there he moved<br />
on to the receivers coach position at the University of Wisconsin. He<br />
took on much of the recruiting efforts, covering much of the east coast.<br />
MAUER YEAR-BY-YEAR<br />
Overall NSIC<br />
Year W L W L<br />
2004 7 4 4 3<br />
2005*^# 9 3 6 1<br />
2006 5 6 4 4<br />
2007 4 7 3 5<br />
Totals 25 20 17 13<br />
* - NSIC Champions<br />
^ - Mineral Water Bowl appearance<br />
# - NSIC Coach of the Year<br />
In 1992, Mauer stepped off the<br />
sidelines and onto the state capitol<br />
floor, where he worked for six years<br />
as a Minnesota legislative<br />
assistant. During that time, he<br />
worked to research and present<br />
legislature. In 1997 he was named<br />
a city council member in St. Paul.<br />
Aside from serving the city by<br />
managing a 350 million budget, he<br />
oversaw legislation that negotiated<br />
safer streets and schools in the city<br />
of St. Paul.<br />
1999<br />
Mauer returned to coaching in 1997<br />
at North Dakota State University, in<br />
Fargo, N.D. There he served as quarterback and receivers coach as<br />
well as taking on offensive coordinator duties for the Bison. In 2000,<br />
Mauer was named the receivers coach at New Mexico State University,<br />
in Las Cruces, N.M.<br />
In 2003, Mauer accepted the head coaching position at Concordia<br />
University. His coaching staff blends several previous coaching<br />
colleagues from New Mexico State and Nebraska, as well as other top<br />
coaches from the coaching field.<br />
Mauer was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1977. He earned a<br />
degree in education from Nebraska in 1982. He graduated from<br />
Harding High School in St. Paul, Minn., in 1977 where he competed in<br />
football, basketball and baseball. In 1997, Mauer was inducted to the<br />
St. Paul, Minnesota Hall of Fame.<br />
He is married to the former Jennifer Graham of Omaha, Neb. They<br />
have three daughters, Mia, Marlo and Macy.<br />
THE MAUER COACHING FILE<br />
2004-Pres. Concordia University Head Coach<br />
2000-2003 New Mexico State Receivers Coach<br />
1997-2000 North Dakota State Assistant Head Coach/<br />
Offensive Coordinator<br />
1987-1991 University of Wisconsin Receivers Coach<br />
1984-1987 Ball State Quarterbacks and Receivers<br />
THE MAUER PLAYING FILE<br />
1977-1982 University of Nebraska <strong>Football</strong><br />
1982 University of Nebraska Baseball<br />
1977 Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 11th round<br />
C U G O L D E N B E A R S . C O M / F O O T B A L L<br />
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2009 CONCORDIA ATHLETICS • CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF NCAA DIVISION II & NORTHERN SUN MEMBERSHIP