Yeshiva University Men's Volleyball

Mente joined Yeshiva University as the Head Mens Volleyball Coach in August of 2015. Mente joins the Maccabees after gaining a wealth of coaching experience at all levels, including club, high school and international. His most recent appointment was serving as girls' volleyball coach at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory High School on the upper west side of Manhattan where he coached from 2011-12. Mente's volleyball coaching experience also includes having been a club team girls' volleyball coach at Aviators Sports Club in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 2011. Before that, he coached the boys' volleyball team at De La Salle Santiago Zobel School in his native the Philippines from 1992-2004. His coaching experience also includes being a national coach for the Republic of the Philippines with several teams between 1997 and 2003. Mente is a graduate of Philippine Normal University where he earned his bachelor's degree in Physical Education in 1991. He earned a master's in Physical Education from Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. in 2010.