Carleton Knights

Brian Mondschein came to Carleton prior to the 2019-20 school year and serves as assistant coach for the men’s track & field and cross country programs. He brings over three decades of coaching experience, including stops at four NCAA Division I programs.

At Carleton, he will be responsible for coaching the short sprints, jumps, and some throws. Mondschein joined the Knights after spending three years coaching at Wake Forest University (D-I) where he coached two All-ACC performers and four NCAA Regional qualifiers. Before Wake Forest, he spent four years coaching the women's track and field program at Princeton University (D-I), coaching the Tigers’ first women's track and field national champion, Julia Ratcliffe (2014 hammer throw) as she collected numerous accolades and was a semifinalist for The Bowerman Trophy.

Mondschein came to Princeton from Southeastern Louisiana (D-I) where he was an assistant coach from 2007-2012. He primarily worked with the throwers and assisted with multi-event athletes. Prior to joining the Lions' staff, he spent 14 years at Kutztown University (D-II), where he turned the program into a dominant force in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC), earning him USTFCCCA Regional Coach of the Year honors nine times and the PSAC Coach of the Year award 10 times. Mondschein had a stint as an assistant coach at Virginia (D-I) from 1987-1992, where he coached the NCAA women’s runner-up in the javelin in 1988 and the NCAA third-place finisher in the decathlon. He was an assistant coach at Rice (D-I) from 1984-87 and began his coaching career at Orange Coast College in 1980.

A 1977 graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in broadcast journalism and English, Mondschein was an All-American in the decathlon, finishing seventh at the NCAA Championships his senior year. Four years earlier, he was part of the US junior 4x400 relay that posted a then-junior world record.