Salisbury enters his second season as the head coach of the Idaho State soccer team. In his first year with the team, Salisbury led the squad to a winning 7-6-3 overall record in 2004, including a school-record four straight wins to open the season.

Coach Salisbury went 7-6-3 in his first season with ISU.

Salisbury holds an 93-80-18 record over ten years of coaching women's collegiate soccer teams. Salisbury was with Central Michigan's program from 1998-2003. Salisbury went 56-52-11 in his six years at Central Michigan, leading the Chippewas into the conference tournament each of the last five years. After a 6-10 inaugural season in 1998, the eighth-best record amongst all first-year NCAA Division I teams, Central Michigan set their highwater mark with a 14-6-1 record and a second place finish out of the 12-team Mid-American Conference, going 8-3 and advancing to the conference semifinals. After a 10-10 season in 2000 which saw his club finish tied for third in the expanded 13-team MAC with a 7-4 record, the Chippewas advanced to the MAC Championship game, losing 3-1 to Miami of Ohio. That 2001 season saw CMU go 12-9-1, including 8-4, good for fourth place in the league. In 2003, Salisbury led the Chippewas to the semifinals of the MAC Conference Tournament, falling in penalty kicks to Bowling Green. While at CMU, Salisbury had eight players earn all conference honors in the 13-team MAC, including three first team honorees. The Chippewas also had 10 Academic All-MAC players, of which only 11 are selected league-wide per season, based on both academics and athletic excellence. Central Michigan also had seven All-MAC Tournament players under Salisbury, and this past year he placed one on the league's inaugural All-Freshman team. In 1999, he also coached Kjersten Kuhlman, who was named All-Great Lakes Region. At Missouri-Rolla, he served as the head coach of both the men's and the women's program, and was successful at each. On the women's side, he had a three-year record of 30-22-4. Included in that was a 15-3-1 season and Rolla's first MIAA title in 1997. Prior to that, Rolla had just one winning season in 15 years of women's soccer. On the men's side he never had a losing record, going 28-24-4 overall. Counting his men's coaching, Salisbury is 114-98-19 over 12 seasons, finishing .500 or better in nine of those. Mark has a bachelor's degree in english composition from Minnesota, and a master's degree in american studies from Kansas. Mark and his wife, Lynn have one son, Keaghan (4).