Mark Dolansky (Meritorious) - Inducted 2025

Mark Dolansky has dedicated over 40 years of his life to youth soccer. Once a player of the game, Mark serves as the Travel Commissioner and Board Member of the BRYC Elite Academy and Braddock Road Youth Club (BRYC). With his innate game knowledge and business acumen, Mark has facilitated breakthroughs in youth soccer management that have bettered the sport for players, parents, and coaches. As someone who grew up fully immersed in the sport, Mark identified opportunities to leverage his passion for technology, and worked to innovate the administrative side of the game.  In his late teens, Mark became the principal architect of the original WAGS/NCSL scheduling program. His guidance and insight created new models by which club teams can be educated, tested, and effectively managed.

 

Mark’s work contributions have had major impacts on field development projects, including, but not limited to the creation of new turf fields and continued high-quality maintenance of Bermuda grass fields. He has led and fostered collaboration between competing clubs to create high-level development opportunities for players. Alongside this, Mark volunteers for weekly, monthly and yearly commitments, all for the sake of doing right by the players, coaches, and parents.

 

Rarely do you have an individual who has impacted the game from both a Business (Builder) and Sporting (Coach) perspective like Mark has. His passion has always been set in making soccer the best it can be at all levels for everyone involved. By creating and implementing new standards of excellence, Mark has modernized club soccer management.

 

While continuing his administrative work, Mark continues to volunteer as a coach. His work has had an undeniable impact on youth soccer.