Dante Alinsunurin

Dante Alinsunurin is a Filipino volleyball coach.

Dante Alinsunurin
Personal information
Nationality	Filipino
Coaching information
Current team	Choco Mucho Flying Titans NU Bulldogs
Previous teams coached Years Teams 2009 2010–present 2017 2019–2022 2021 2023–present 2024 2025 NU (women's) NU (men's) Megabuilders Volley Bolts Philippines (men's) Go for Gold Air Force Choco Mucho Flying Titans Philippines (men's) Philippines WUG (men's)
National team
— Philippines
Honours 2024 CPC Coach of the Year[1] Men's volleyball Head coach for  Philippines Southeast Asian Games 2019 Philippines National Team

Career

NU Bulldogs

The NU Bulldogs won five straight UAAP titles under Alinsunurin, their long-time head coach.^[2][3]

He has coached in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, mentoring the National University (NU) Bulldogs men's volleyball team which won back-to-back titles over FEU in 2019 and Ateneo in 2018.^[4][5] The Bulldogs, under his watch, also took part at the 2018 ASEAN University Games in Myanmar and clinched a gold medal for the Philippines.^[6][7]

Club

Alinsunurin has participated at the Spikers' Turf as coach. He guided the Megabuilders Volley Bolts in 2017.^[8] He also coached Go for Gold Air Force team which finished as runners-up at the 2021 PNVF Champions League.^[9]

He joined 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.^[10]

Philippine national team

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).^[11] 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.^[12]

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.^[13] In 2022, Alinsunurin led 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.^[14]

In January 2023, Alinsunurin left the national team after he was named coach of Choco Mucho Flying Titans.^[14]

Philippines WUG

The NU Bulldogs competed as the World University Games men's volleyball team of the Philippines at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Germany. The team coached by Alinsurin finished fourteenth out of fifteen nations at the ^[15][16]

Personal life

The "5-peat" champion NU head coach said he dedicated this latest achievement to his older brother Mike Alinsunurin, who passed away on May 6, 2025.^[17][18]