Mendoza, a former Barton College standout, coached the boys program at Greenfield for four years and left early in his fourth season with the Lady Knights to take a corporate job. Mendoza — who followed in the footsteps of legendary Greenfield head coach Ben Forbes, for whom the school’s soccer field is named — led the Knights to the 2016 state 1-A crown. Mendoza has since returned to Greenfield as the school’s director of development and communications and the finance coordinator. He also founded Soccer Box, a soccer training center in Wilson.
With practice starting in less than a month for the girls season, Salter said that Wilkinson will handle the head coaching duties while Mendoza will be in more of an auxiliary role this spring as he tends to his office duties. But starting with the 2021-22 school year, Wilkinson will coach the boys in the fall, with Mendoza helping, and vice versa for the girls season in the spring.