Jacky Mendes - Men's Track and Field Coach - Bucknell University Athletics

Jacky Mendes

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
jm094@bucknell.edu

Jacky Mendes joined the Bison track and field program in August 2021 after serving as an assistant coach at Duke during the 2020-21 season, specializing in the jumps. The Blue Devils qualified 33 athletes to the NCAA East Preliminary round, with ten of that group advancing to the NCAA Championships.

Mendes helped guide the women's team at Duke to an outdoor ACC Championship last season, with Elasia Campbell earning the gold medal at the meet with a personal-best in the high jump (5-10) in her first season of competition in Durham.

Additionally, Mendes served as the recruiting coordinator for the long jump, the triple jump, the high jump, and the hurdles at Duke as well as coordinating community service outreach with the program with Team IMPACT.

Prior to her time in Durham, Mendes served three years at the University of New Hampshire as an assistant coach, her alma mater. School records in the long jump, triple jump, and the pentathlon fell under Mendes' watch. Mendes also worked directly with Nate Hobbs, who qualified for NCAA Regionals after earning a gold medal in the long jump at the America East Championships.

From 2014-17, Mendes led the Merrimack College men's and women's program as head coach, coaching the program's first-ever national champion while also developing All-Americans in the 4x400 and the multis.

Mendes lettered four years in track and field while at New Hampshire, where she graduated in 2012. Her school record of 3,485 points in the pentathlon still stands as the school record for the Wildcats. The native of Dayton, Maine went on to earn her master's in exercise and sports science from Ithaca College in 2015 while serving as a graduate assistant coach.