Head Coach Brandon Mand, a former assistant who is now in his third season at the helm, leads the continuing rebuild for the Falcons. The 2026 team will look to make another solid stride forward following a promising 2025 season.

SSES is in search of consistency after a series of up-and-down campaigns since 2019. Following a COVID-shortened 2020 season, SSES struggled in 2021 (1-15), but bounced back strong in 2022 to go 9-3 and reach the district tournament semifinals. The pendulum swung again with very young teams in 2023 and 2024 that produced marks of 2-11 and 4-13, respectively. Last season, however, opened with six wins over the first 10 games before the Falcons dropped their final four to finish 6-8. That strong early performance, coupled with several competitive losses, brings optimism for a return to prominence.

The 2019 graduating class of eight Falcons won 64 games in four years and set what had been a struggling program on the right path. After posting the best record in many years in 2018 (17-5), the Falcons made a quick, unexpected exit in the first round of the district tournament. But the veteran team bounced back in a big way in 2019, putting together an 18-8 record and a district runner-up finish that qualified SSES for its first regional playoff game since 2009.

The program hasn’t won a district championship since 2009, but does have six to its credit, as well as a regional title in 2003. It has also produced a number of players who have gone on to compete at the collegiate level, including Class of 2024 grad Cade Walters (Davis & Elkins), 2021 grads Peter Balos (Ursinus) and Brock Soletti (Coast Guard Academy), 2019 grad Ben Tobio (Stevens Institute), 2011 grad Jeremy Perron (Holy Cross) and 2002 grad J.B. Tucker (Wake Forest).