Quick Facts
Years: 5th Season | 2017 - Present
Career Record: 24-37-5 (.481)
Career NEAC/United East Record: 14-22-3 (.397)
NEAC/United East Tournament Appearances: 1 (2017)
NEAC/United East Tournament Record: 0-1-0 (.000)
All-NEAC/United East Selections: 3
Daniel Mannella is headed into his fifth season at the helm for Penn State Abington. During the past four seasons, the Blue and White have posted 24 Wins, a NEAC Tournament appearance in 2017, and produced three NEAC/United East All-Conference players. In 2021, Abington finished 7-7-2 overall and 3-4-1 in the United East.
Mannella entered professional coaching in 1999 as a volunteer women's assistant at local Divison I Villanova University while playing as a professional with the South Jersey Barons of the USL D3 Pro League. A veteran coach, Mannella comes to Penn State Abington from the club coaching ranks as the Director of Coaching for nationally recognized FC Bucks.
Mannella serves as the Club’s Director of Coaching for CRUSA and FC Bucks and over the past 8 years, he helped the club gain entrance to the Girls & Boys ECNL, while overseeing all aspects of soccer for the club. Over that time Manella has helped many teams at FC Bucks earn numerous State, Regional and ECNL Championships while also helping guide hundreds of players on to college playing careers and scholarships.
For nine seasons at La Salle University, he served as the top assistant, assisting every aspect of the program with a focus on player management and personal development. In 2011, he helped the Explorers to their first Atlantic 10 Championship, and first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history. For his outstanding work that season, Mannella earned the NSCAA Women’s Soccer Assistant Coach of the Year helping the program move to new heights. While at Villanova in 1999 he helped the Wildcats to a 14-8 record and an ECAC Championship.
Mannella started his professional playing career with the USL’s South Jersey Barons. He helped the team to a regular season National Championship in 1999 and finished third in assists in the USL D3 in the 2000 season. While playing for the Barons Mannella traveled to England and trained with now Premier League clubs Newcastle United, Burnley, and League 2 favorite Accrington Stanley.
Mannella played collegiate soccer at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee from 1997-1998 where he helped the Panthers win the 1997 Horizon League Championship and was named to the All-Conference Newcomer team. In high school, he was all state his senior year at Arthur P. Schalick and still holds several team and individual records while winning the schools only South Jersey Soccer Coaches Association Tournament in 1994. He was inducted in to Schalick's sports Hall of Fame in 2012.
Mannella received his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications in 2003 from Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he will also obtained his ‘A’ Youth License from the USSF in January 2018 along with his 'B', 'C', 'D', and NSCAA Premier, Advanced National and National, Director of Coaching and Special Topics course while Studying at Manchester United.
