Neil Cifuentes has worked at St. Mark’s since 2007 as a Spanish instructor and Assistant Director of Global Citizenship at St. Mark’s. After his collegiate soccer career at St. Lawrence University, Cifuentes went on to work as an assistant coach of the St. Lawrence men's varsity soccer team during a period that included three NCAA regional finals and a 22-0 National Championship run. Coach Cifuentes is a licensed coach trained in the Coerver Coaching Method as well as nationally licensed with the USC. Cifuentes coached the Boy’s Varsity soccer team at St. Mark’s between the years of 2008 -2018 and qualified as NEPSAC Quarter-Finalists in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and were consistently a Top 1/3 finisher in the Independent School League. Coach Cifuentes established a track record of successfully transitioning his athletes to competing at the collegiate level, with former St. Marker’s playing at Trinity College, Tufts, Claremont McKenna, St. Lawrence, Bowdoin, Clarkson, Colgate, Macalester, The University of Rochester, Washington University, University of Pennsylvania and Denison College.

In October of 2013, Coach Cifuentes was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at St. Lawrence University. Mr. Cifuentes was on the coaching staff of the 1999 Men's Soccer team at St. Lawrence, which was the first men's team in NCAA Division III history to run the table en route to the NCAA Championship. Additionally, Coach Cifuentes was named the 2015 Massachusetts Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

A gifted instructor, Neil spends his summers coaching at a variety of soccer clinics as well as leading groups of students on trips around the world. In his free time, Coach Cifuentes enjoys paddleboarding, cooking, traveling and spending time with his family and dog.