Hugh Brooks Mendez (1935 – 2013) was an American football and baseball player and coach.
[citation needed] He also served as Whittier's head football coach from 1980 to 1989, winning two conference championships[2] Hugh B.Mendez stadium was dedicated in his honor by Whittier College in 2018.
Mendez was also inducted to the Whittier College Athletic Hall of Fame.
The legendary Mendez won league championships as a head coach in multiple countries including, the 1993 Austrian Bowl title with the Feldkirch Dinos, the 1985 Finnish Maple Bowl Vaahteraliiga with Vantaa Taft, and won the first Eurobowl championship in 1986 with Taft Vantaa from Finland.
Mendez also won an Italian League Championship.