Klaus Mendenhall

The US Rugby Foundation’s Bing Dawson biography names Klaus Mendenhall as one of the administrators who helped build OMBAC’s equipment, training and sports medicine infrastructure.

Graduated from San Diego State University with a BS in Accounting; previously graduated San Diego High School with the class of 1962.

Built more than three decades of professional experience in residential and commercial real estate development before retirement.

Served eight years as treasurer of the Southern California Rugby Football Union. The original OMBAC club history, preserved in the Internet Archive, explicitly records his service.

In a first-person 2012 tribute to San Diego High coach Henry Wiegand, Mendenhall recalled three years under his direction on the Balboa Park cross-country course and at track meets in Balboa Stadium.

Listed in San Diego State College’s June 13, 1969 commencement program in Accounting, establishing the year of his SDSU graduation.

Selected among the Associated Men’s Students’ Ten Best Dressed Men on Campus, documented with a named group photograph in the 1969 Del Sudoeste yearbook.

Event archive1969 campus photographView archive ↗

Member of the San Diego High School Foundation from 2008, serving as treasurer. Its official biography identifies his continuing volunteer work with OMBAC and Mission Beach Town Council.

Career contextCommunity leadershipView archive ↗

Elected Area 2 representative of the Mission Beach Town Council in November 2022.

Listed among 2024 US Rugby Foundation Clubhouse members and donors in the Foundation’s annual report.

Named among the six inaugural OMBAC Rugby Hall of Fame inductees for the club’s 60th Anniversary celebration.

Original document2026 Hall of Fame celebrationView archive ↗