Teams, Scores, & Schedules

Arthur D'Angelo
Head Coach

Coach D'Angelo is excited to take over the role of head middle school football coach.

Coach D'Angelo has had a long experience with football over the course of his career. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and playing Sprint Football, Arthur spent the next two years as a Defensive Analyst for the football team at the University of Southern California under Head Coach Clay Helton. Arthur then moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky to work as a Graduate Assistant for Western Kentucky University. While working at Western Kentucky, Arthur met his wife who was getting her RN at WKU.

He decided to leave the college game and begin working towards his Masters in the Arts of Teaching with Liberty University as he felt his calling was more aligned with making an impact on Middle School aged students both in the classroom and on the football field. While working towards his teaching certification, Arthur worked at Strive Collegiate Academy, a charter school in Donelson, TN where he was a paraprofessional and helped students with various I.E.Ps. He comes to FRA after working at Pope John Paul II Preparatory school where he was a 6th Grade and Algebra I math teacher and was also the inaugural Head Middle School Football coach.

Hasan Clayton
Assistant Coach

Hasan is from Evanston, Illinois, where he attended Loyola Academy in a northern suburb of Chicago. He moved to Nashville in 2011 to attend Vanderbilt University. At Vandy, He double-majored in Psychology and Sociology while competing on the football team as an undergrad. He later completed my master's in education for Child Studies where I focused on program evaluations for academic growth in non-profit organizations.

Hasan started teaching in 2015, where he worked at a local charter school in Nashville. He has taught grades 5-8 reading and writing throughout his career as a teacher. He later helped to create the inaugural middle school basketball team at Nashville Classical Charter School.

At FRA, Hasan looks forward to helping students reach their full potential athletically, academically, and socially by helping them thrive in various sports, providing rigorous English instruction to 7th graders, and encouraging them to be the most selfless people they can be. Hasan, his wife, and their son all hope to be a part of the FRAmily for many years to come.

Matt Perez
Assistant Coach

Originally Matt is from Atlanta, Georgia where he attended The Marist School. He then attended Georgia Tech and earned his bachelor’s in business administration. After graduating from Georgia Tech he returned to Marist to be an assistant 7th grade football coach and an assistant varsity baseball coach. After a year of coaching and working in the business world he pursued his Master’s in Education from the University of Notre Dame where he taught full-time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for two years while completing the master’s degree.

After his time in Philadelphia he moved to Nashville where he taught high school math, coached middle and varsity football, and varsity baseball at Pope John Paul II Preparatory School in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Matt currently serves as a middle and upper school math teacher, coach middle school and varsity football, and varsity baseball.

Jared Mendiola
Assistant Coach

Coach Jared Mendiola claims Highland Park, IL as home, but he grew up all over the world as a military child. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Colorado College in biochemistry with minors in education and Spanish. While in Colorado, he was captain of the baseball team and led multiple youth outreach initiatives focused on mentorship and STEM.

After his undergraduate studies, he began his PhD in chemistry at Vanderbilt University. However, he pivoted to being an educator as a tutor for middle school students at University School of Nashville and a substitute teacher at STEM Preparatory Academy. He joined FRA this year as a Faculty Fellow teaching chemistry and biology in the upper school as well as coaching middle school football and basketball, and upper school baseball.