The 2015 season is Mader’s 12th as an assistant coach for the SJU football team. Mader is the former head football coach and activities director at Albany High School, where he made 15 football state tournament appearances and won state titles in 1989 and 1997. Mader retired in 2002 after 23 seasons at Albany and was inducted into the Minnesota State Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in November 2002. Mader is also a 2006 inductee into both the Minnesota Athletic Directors' Hall of Fame and Albany High School Hall of Fame. He served as the offensive coordinator and head coach for the Cineplexx Blue Devils, a semi-professional team in the Austrian Football League (AFL) and the Switzerland NLA League, from 2010-12. Mader and his wife, Carol, live in Albany and have two children and one grandson.
