After three years at the helm of the Golden Bears football program Mark Mauer has guided the team to a 21-13 overall record, including a 14-8 mark in the NSIC. In 2005, Concordia captured their second NSIC championship in three years as they tied a school record with nine wins (9-3) and finished 6-1 in league play. The season was highlighted with a decisive 35-21 victory over Winona State in the Metrodome Classic, which clinched a share of the NSIC title as well as a berth in the team’s second Mineral Water Bowl in just three seasons. The outstanding season landed Mauer NSIC Coach of the Year honors in just his second season in the league.

In his first season as the head coach of the Golden Bears, Mauer led the team to a 7-4 overall finish, including a 4-3 mark in Northern Sun action.  The final record doesn’t tell the complete story of the success the team enjoyed, as Mauer had the Bears a win away from their second consecutive bid to the Mineral Water Bowl, as they fell a touchdown shy in their final game against conference champs Winona State in the Metrodome Classic. The Golden Bears have recorded at least a .500 record in the NSIC seven times since they joined the league eight years ago in 1999, a streak carried over by Mauer’s teams in his three seasons with the program.

Mauer became Concordia’s ninth head coach prior to the 2004 season.  He took over a program that was the defending Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Champs. Mauer's storied career has taken him from the front steps of St. Paul Harding High School to Nebraska to Indiana to New Mexico and back to Minnesota again.

At the University of Nebraska, he was a two-sport athlete as a standout in both football and baseball. He played three years of quarterback for the Cornhuskers, earning Tom Novak Most Valuable Offensive Player Award as a team captain in 1981. 

His coaching experience began in 1984 as a quarterback and receivers coach at Ball State (1987-1991) in Muncie, IN. From there he moved on to the receivers coach position at the University of Wisconsin. He took on much of the recruiting efforts, covering much of the east coast.

In 1992, Mauer stepped off the sidelines and onto the state capitol floor, where he worked for six years as a Minnesota legislative assistant. During that time, he worked to research and present legislature. In 1997 he was named a city council member in St. Paul.  Aside from serving the city by managing a 350 million budget, he oversaw legislation that negotiated safer streets and schools in the city of St. Paul.

Mauer returned to coaching in 1997 at North Dakota State University, in Fargo, N.D. There he served as quarterback and receivers coach as well as taking on offensive coordinator duties for the Bison. In 2000, Mauer was named the receivers coach at New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, N.M.

In 2003, Mauer accepted the head coaching position at Concordia University. His coaching staff blends several previous coaching colleagues from New Mexico State and Nebraska, as well as other top coaches from the coaching field.

Mauer was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1977. Mauer earned a degree in education from Nebraska in 1982.  He graduated from Harding High School in St. Paul, Minn., in 1977 where he competed in football, basketball and baseball.  In 1997, Mauer was inducted to the St. Paul, Minnesota Hall of Fame.

He is married to the former Jennifer Graham of Omaha, Neb. They have three daughters, Mia, Marlo and Macy.