lmelendez@monroecollege.edu

Since being named head coach in 2006, Coach Melendez has transformed the Monroe Mustangs baseball program so that it simultaneously develops solid players and productive young men who are college graduates.

Coach Melendez believes that good academics go hand-in-hand with on-field performance and he insists that his players make similar commitments to their team and their class work.

He debuted with Monroe in 2005 as an assistant coach with vast baseball coaching and playing experience. He was appointed as head coach one year later.  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.  

Currently Coach Melendez is Monroe's Assistant Athletic Director and head coach for the ACBL's Peekskill Robins.

A Bronx native who was raised in the lower east side of 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 basketball team.  He lettered all four years in both sports while maintaining his academics.  Coach Duprey finished in the top-five of his class and was awarded a national student/athlete award. 

A two-sport athlete in college, Coach Duprey played two years of Division II basketball and four years of Division I baseball for C.W. Post where he broke many school records as a pitcher.  He was an honorable mention All-American, 2^nd team All-Northeast, and 1^st team All-Conference as a closer in his freshman campaign and a 1^st team all conference pitcher as a starter his final season.

Coach Duprey graduated with a BA in Psychology, finishing with a 3.6 GPA, allowing him to graduate with honors.  He also won the Student Athlete of the Year award.  While attending college, Hector played for the Metro Cadets in the sanctioned ACBL summer league where he became an All-Star pitcher as well. 

Coach Duprey has now been with Monroe College for five years as an assistant coach where he has worked mainly developing pitchers.  He currently works full-time as a sports-specific trainer/personal trainer in Sportset of Rockville Centre and continues to work as a baseball instructor for the NY Baseball Academy and Storm Baseball Academy.  Coach Duprey also plays with the nationally-ranked Long Island Storm baseball team.

Raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Coach Ramirez has played and coached in New York City for 15 years. As a player at Bronx CC he was a member of the 1993 CUNY City Championship team and the 1994 Bronx team that played in the Junior College World Series. He coached and managed with the Boys Club of New York and Major League Baseballs' RBI Program for nine years, where he coached several city championship teams and worked with inner city youth of all ages. Ramirez then coached at LaSalle Academy High School from 2002 through 2005. Most recently, he was the Head Coach at the Globe Institute of Technology where he led the Knights to their first District tournament win.

In 1999, Ramirez completed the Major League Scouting Bureau's Scout Development Program in Tucson, AZ and brings to Monroe vast knowledge of the game, as well as a strong foundation in strength, conditioning, speed and agility. Coach Ramirez works with position players, particularly infielders.