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Biography
Mervyl Melendez is a Puerto Rican college baseball coach who is the current head coach of the FIU Panthers baseball team. He has held the position since June 28th 2016.
Prior to accepting the job at Alabama State, Melendez was the head coach at Bethune-Cookman, leading his alma mater to eleven Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championships in his twelve seasons. As coach at Bethune-Cookman, Melendez led the team two back-to-back undefeated conference seasons in 2010 and 2011. His teams also won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament every year from 2000 through 2011, with the exception of 2005. He won 379 games as coach of the Wildcats, and in 2009 became the second-youngest coach in NCAA history to win 300 games.
Melendez played for Bethune-Cookman from 1993 through 1996, seeing time at third base and as a relief pitcher. At his playing career's end, he held program records in doubles (30) and batting average (.342). Melendez earned all-conference and all-tournament honors in 1995 and 1996. Following the end of his playing career, Melendez became an assistant coach for the Wildcats. During his tenure as an assistant, the team won the 1999 MEAC Tournament.
Head coaching records
The following is a table of Melendez's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethune–Cookman Wildcats (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) (2000–2011) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Bethune-Cookman | 33–28 | 10–8 | 3rd (Southern) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2001 | Bethune-Cookman | 26–34 | 11–5 | 1st (Southern) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2002 | Bethune-Cookman | 39–22 | 16–2 | 1st (Southern) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2003 | Bethune-Cookman | 30–28 | 11–5 | 1st (Southern) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2004 | Bethune-Cookman | 27–28 | 14–4 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2005 | Bethune-Cookman | 22–28 | 11–6 | 2nd | MEAC Tournament | ||||
| 2006 | Bethune-Cookman | 30–27 | 15–0 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2007 | Bethune-Cookman | 33–27 | 16–1 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2008 | Bethune-Cookman | 36–22 | 17–1 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2009 | Bethune-Cookman | 32–28 | 16–2 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2010 | Bethune-Cookman | 35–22 | 18–0 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2011 | Bethune-Cookman | 36–25 | 18–0 | 1st East | NCAA Regional | ||||
| Bethune-Cookman: | 379–319 | 173–34 | |||||||
| Alabama State Hornets (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (2012–present) | |||||||||
| 2012 | Alabama State | 20–36 | 14–10 | T–2nd (East) | SWAC Tournament | ||||
| 2013 | Alabama State | 32–25 | 18–6 | 2nd (East) | SWAC Tournament | ||||
| 2014 | Alabama State | 37–20 | 21–3 | 1st (East) | SWAC Tournament | ||||
| 2015 | Alabama State | 31–19 | 18–6 | 1st (East) | SWAC Tournament | ||||
| 2016 | Alabama State | 38-17 | 24-0 | NCAA Regionals | |||||
| Alabama State: | 158–117 | 95–25 | |||||||
| FIU Panthers (Conference USA) (2017–present) | |||||||||
| 2017 | FIU | 00-00-00 | 00-00-00 | ||||||
| FIU: | 00-00-00 | 00-00-00 | |||||||
| Total: | 537–436 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||