Nate Ngo - Men's Volleyball Coach

Nate Ngo

Title:
Volunteer Assistant Coach

Nate Ngo joins the Bruins men’s volleyball staff for the 2020 season as volunteer assistant coach. In 2018-19, he had served in a similar position for the Cal Poly SLO women’s volleyball team which posted a 25-3 record. Ngo also currently is the Technical Coordinator for the USA Men’s National Volleyball Team. He has worked with Coach Speraw in that role since 2015.

    Working with Team USA, he was part of the 2018 team that won a bronze medal at the World Championship, the first medal in a tournament in 24 years for Team USA. He was also on the staff for the 2016 Olympics, where Team USA won bronze, and in 2015, when the team captured their first World Cup since 1985.

     In addition to his work with Team USA, Ngo has also been on the coaching staffs at the University of Denver (2017), Irvine Valley College (2015-2017) and University of Portland (2014). In 2013 and 2014, he served as technical coordinator for the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team and then as a Graduate Manager at the University of Nebraska (2011-2013), while earning a Master’s of Science degree in statistics. He also worked for SVS Post in Vienna, Austria as the Technical Coordinator in 2011.

Ngo has also served as the VIS (Volleyball Information System) supervisor at various international events, including the 2009 Women’s Pan Am Cup, multiple weekends of the FIVB World League in 2010 and 2011, and the NORCECA Men’s Olympic Qualifier in 2012.

     Ngo attended Cal Poly from 2006-2010. In 2006, he began working with the Mustang volleyball team as the student manager, a year that saw the team win the Big West Conference and advance to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. He then spent three years as a volunteer assistant and as a coach on the women’s club volleyball team before graduating from Cal Poly in 2010.

     Originally from San Francisco, Ngo attended Sacred Heart Cathedral High School where he played on the men’s volleyball team.