lmelendez@monroecollege.edu

Coach Melendez was an assistant coach in the 2005 debut season for Monroe Varsity baseball. He came to the head coaching job one year later with vast baseball coaching and playing expereince.

A long time assistant coach at Lehman College, Melendez was a solid catcher for the Bangor Lumberjacks and the Allentown Ambassadors in the Northeast League and the Schaumburg Flyers, Quebec City Capitales, and the Waterbury Spirit of the Northern League. He was an All-region catcher at Lehman College and is currently working in the Monroe College office of residence life.

A Bronx native who was raised in Manhattan, Coach Hector Duprey attended LaSalle Academy High School where he made All-City as a baseball player and was part of the 1997 City Championship team.

He then played for four years of Division I baseball in C.W. Post where he broke many school records as a pitcher was an All American, 2nd team All Northeast, and 1st team All Conference as a closer. Hector then became an All-Star pitcher for the Metro Cadets in the sanctioned ACBL. Currently, he's a starting pitcher for the Long Island Storm amateur team and as a baseball instructor for New York Baseball Academy.