2020 Staff Spotlight

Brandon Melville joined the Maine Maritime Academy men's lacrosse coaching staff in August 2019, leading the Mariners to a 39-18 overall record (.684) and a 21-3 North Atlantic Conference mark, in five years, including two shortened seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, Melville guided the Mariners to their third consecutive NAC championship game, after a 10-4 regular-season and 7-1 conference record.

In 2024, Melville’s Mariners continued to excel on and off the field, earning the top seed in the NAC Tournament, landing seven players on the all-conference team, and earning a 2024 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Academic Team Award honor for the first time in program history.

In 2023, the Mariners claimed their second-straight conference championship, after a 12-3 regular season record and an unblemished 8-0 conference record. earned the right to host an NCAA Tournament game in Castine for the first time in Mariners Athletics history. 

Under Melville’s guidance, the Mariners shattered a number of team records in 2023 including: points scored (588), goals (342), assists (246), man-up goals (43), man-down goals (9), ground balls (722), saves (221), and wins (14) and led all NCAA Division III teams in assists per game and points per game. During the regular season, a number of Melville’s players consistently earned national and regional recognition with weekly honors, and at the conclusion of the season, landed six players on the All-Conference Team, including three First Team NAC selections and NAC Player of the Year, Jayden Wilson.

In 2022, Melville guided the Mariners to their first ever NAC championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance after a 7-6 regular season record. The Mariners entered the NAC Tournament as the fourth seed and pulled off two thrilling come-from-behind victories to upset the No. 1 and No. 3 seeds, to claim the program’s first Conference Championship. 

During Melville’s tenure the Mariners also became the first team in the NAC to be deemed a Purple Heart Team and one of the first in NCAA across all three divisions, after hosting their inaugural Purple Heart Game on April 20, 2022. 

Melville led the Mariners to a 2-1 record in the team's shortened 2021 season due to the pandemic and shortened academic calendar. In his first season with the Mariners, Melville led the team to a 3-1 record in 2020, the best start in program history since 2009, before the season was halted due to the start of the pandemic. Despite the shortened 2020 season, Melville's Mariners were recognized in the NAC and nationally for their contributions on the field and in the classroom, as senior defender Nathan Granholm earned NAC Man of the Year honors and was named a USILA Scholar All-American.

In addition to coaching the men's lacrosse team, Melville assists in the Athletic Communications Office.

Melville was the head coach at Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in 2018-2019. Working with only 17 athletes on his roster, he led the Hornets to a 3-3 season in North Atlantic Conference play, including a 13-7 win over Maine Maritime in Castine. He mentored Brandon Hunter, one of two NAC athletes selected for the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association East-West All-Star Game. His roster also produced the NAC Men's Lacrosse Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year and a second team All-NAC selection.

Immediately prior to taking the reins at Lyndon, Melville served as a graduate assistant in the athletic department at Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville, Iowa. He assisted with department financial and operational functions, provided social media content, and supervised college housing. Following his tenure at Iowa Lakes he completed his Master of Sport Leadership degree at Northeastern University.

Melville, a Farmington, Maine native, began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Maine-Farmington, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in outdoor recreation business administration. Following two seasons at UMF, he spent three seasons as the assistant boys' lacrosse coach at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington.

Melville was a Dean's List student at UMF and a three-year member of the Beavers lacrosse team. He also served on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. He spent the summer following his graduation as the recreation coordinator of UMF's Upward Bound program

Coach Melville Year-by-Year:

*Head Coach at Northern Vermont University-Lyndon