Andrew Mittendorf is a American football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player played professionally in the United States and Sweden.

Youth

Mittendorf attended Lehigh University

Lehigh University

Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...

, playing on the men' soccer team from 1995 to 1998. He began his collegiate career as a defender and ended it as a high socring forward. He was the 1997 Patriot League

Patriot League

The Patriot League is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I) for a number of sports; in football, it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision...

 Player of the Year. His senior season, he led the NCAA in goals per game. In 1999, he was named to the Patriot League Men’s Soccer All-Decade team.

Professional

In 1999, the Colorado Rapids

Colorado Rapids

The Colorado Rapids are an American professional soccer club based in the Denver suburb of Commerce City, Colorado which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having competed in the league...

 selected Mittendorf in the first round (eighth overall) of the 1999 MLS College Draft

1999 MLS College Draft

The 1999 Major League Soccer College Draft.Major League Soccer held its fourth annual college draft on February 6 and 7, 1999 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The first round of the draft took place on Saturday with the second and third rounds on Sunday morning. The College Draft was followed by the...

. The Lehigh Valley Steam

Lehigh Valley Steam

Lehigh Valley Steam was a soccer club that competed in the A-League in 1999. Based in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, the club has problems securing a home stadium and folded after a single season. The club featured future U.S. national team player Kerry Zavagnin and was coached by Daryl...

 also selected him in the USL A-League draft. Mittendorf signed with the Rapids who released him on March 29, 1999 during a pre-season roster reduction. He then joined the Hershey Wildcats

Hershey Wildcats

Hershey Wildcats were a professional soccer team, based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, that played in the USL A-League between 1997 and 2001. The team was owned by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company...

 of the A-League. In 2000, he played for the Long Island Rough Riders

Long Island Rough Riders

Long Island Rough Riders is an American soccer team based in South Huntington, New York, United States. Founded in 1994, the team plays in the USL Premier Development League , the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Mid Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.The team plays its...

. In 2001, he played for Värtans IK

Värtans IK

Värtans IK is a Swedish football club located in Stockholm. The club was formed in 1924.-Background:Since their foundation Värtans IK has participated in the upper and lower divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 5 Stockholm Mellersta which is the...

in Sweden after which he retired from professional soccer.

In 2002, Mittendorf co-founded Coastal Soccer which he sold in 2006.

External links

• Where are they now? - Andrew Mittendorf '99