Dante Alinsunurin is a Filipino volleyball coach.
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Nationality | Filipino | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Choco Mucho Flying Titans NU Bulldogs | ||||||||||||||
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Alinsunurin has coached in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), mentoring the National University (NU) Bulldogs men's volleyball team which won back-to-back titles over FEU in 2019 and Ateneo in 2018.[1][2] The Bulldogs, under his watch, also took part at the 2018 ASEAN University Games in Myanmar and clinched a gold medal for the Philippines.[3][4]
Alinsunurin has participated at the Spikers' Turf as coach. He guided the Megabuilders Volley Bolts in 2017.[5] He also coached Go for Gold Air Force team which finished as runners-up at the 2021 PNVF Champions League.[6]
He would join the women's club Choco Mucho Flying Titans of the Premier Volleyball League with his first tournament set to be the 2023 All-Filipino Conference.[7]
Alinsunurin has coached the Philippine men's national team. A former national player himself, Alinsunurin was appointed as head coach in February 2019, under the then national federation Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas (LVP).[8] He helped the team win a silver medal at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. He was retained as a coach when the LVP was succeeded by the Philippine National Volleyball Federation in 2021.[9]
He has also coached the national team at the 2021 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship which took part as a club side under the name Rebisco PH.[10] In 2022, Alinsunurin would lead the team again for the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam. However the team failed to maintain their success from the 2019 edition, finishing fifth.[11]
In January 2023, Alinsunurin left the national team after he was named coach of Choco Mucho Flying Titans.[11]