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Mauro Monz

Mauro Monz

  • Title
    Assistant Coach, Offensive Coordinator (Quarterbacks)
  • Email
    monzmj@westminster.edu
  • Alma Mater
    Duquesne '96
With close to 30 years of coaching experience Mauro Monz enters his second season with the Titans, working as Westminster's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after coaching the wide receivers in 2023. He joined Scott Benzel's staff after serving as as the head coach at Madonna High School in 2022.

A 1992 Seton LaSalle High School graduate, Monz attended Duquesne University, where he was twice named an All-Metro Atlantic Conference defensive back (1994, 1995) and was a co-captain of the 1995 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Bowl champions. The team finished the year 10-1 and went 7-0 in the Metro Atlantic. Monz finished the 1995 season as a First Team All-American defensive back and graduated as the Dukes’ all-time leader in interceptions with 12. 

Monz earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Duquesne in 1996 and a masters degree in instructional leadership from Robert Morris University in 2000. 

In 1996, Monz began his coaching career at Robert Morris as an assistant under legendary head coach Joe Walton, helping the Colonials win Northeast Conference (NEC) titles in 1997, 1998 and 1999. He moved on to the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant recruiting coordinator in 2000 and had a hand in the recruitment of Larry Fitzgerald, Tyler Palko and Biletnikoff Award winner Antonio Bryant, the first player in Pitt and BIG EAST history to win the award. In 2001 Monz joined his alma mater, Duquesne, as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. The Dukes went 19-2 with him running the offense and went 11-0 in 2002, climbing to as high as No. 21 in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) rankings.  

Monz became the nation's youngest head coach in December 2002 when he took over at West Virginia University Institute of Technology, recruiting over 150 student-athletes from 16 different states during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In 2005 he returned to Duquesne as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach before serving as the director of football operations at the University of Akron for the 2006 season. He took over as the wide receivers coach for Akron in 2007 and added the title of recruiting coordinator for the 2009 season. 

In 2010 Monz returned to the staff at Robert Morris, functioning as the first offensive coordinator Coach Walton had in his 17 as the head coach of the Colonials. The team went 8-3 overall, won the NEC and advanced to the Division I FCS playoffs after earning the program's first-ever top 25 national ranking. He coach tight ends at Youngstown State University in 2011 and 2012. He founded the Oakdale Youth Sports Association (OYSA) in 2015 and served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Baldwin High School in 2017 and 2018 and worked as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Mount Lebanon High School in 2019. 

Monz served as an offensive analyst and tight ends coach at the University of Albany in 2021 and 2022. 
 

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