Milpitas Teacher Named New Mountain View Coach

Mountain View High School athletics has three new top coaches, one of them coming from Milpitas High School.

Mountain View High officials announced today that M. Anthony Chen, Adam Petke,  and Jeff Trout have been brought on board in Mountain View to coach volleyball, baseball, track and field and cross country. Chen is a physical education teacher at Milpitas High and was assistant coach for the girls' volleyball team there.

Chen, better known as Coach M.A.C., will now head the varsity boys and girls volleyball teams in Mountain View for the 2012 seasons. This is Chen's 16th year as a volleyball coach.

A Southern California native, Chen graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a Masters degree in Motor Behavior and Kinesiology. Before that, he played three years of college club volleyball in South Carolina before heading home to the West.

Chen has coached at the middle school and high school levels in Los Angeles, Minnesota and the South Bay. He also has given volleyball and coaching clinics throughout the U.S. Locally, M.A.C. has coached boys and girls varsity volleyball, winning league titles in 2005 and 2006, and has taken past teams deep into the CCS playoffs.

Chen is married to wife Eugenia.