Riverside City College Athletics

Pene Talamaivao

Email:

pene.Talamaivao@rcc.edu
Title:

Asst. Football Coach - Defensive Line/Director of Strength & Conditioning

Bio

Pene Talamaivao joined the Riverside City College Football coaching staff in 2014, coaching the defensive line and serving as the program's Director of Strength and Conditioning Coach. He has over 20 years of coaching experience, along with elite playing experience at the NCAA Division I and professional levels.

Coach Pen earned a football scholarship to play collegiate football for the University of Utah, where he earned first- and second-team All-Western Athletic Conference honors, as well as All-Mountain West Conference recognition for the Utes. In 1998 he was a pre-season All-American and ranked in the top 20 of defensive linemen in the country.

Talamaivao ranks 56^th overall best player at the University of Utah football history by the Desert News. At Utah, he totaled 113 tackles, 15 tackles for loss, 11 pass break-ups and a sack. He entered the Utah Football Hall of Fame with the Class of 1994 Football Team – the school’s first gridiron squad to win 10 games and finish in the top 10 of the national polls).

After college, Talamaivao was invited to play in two prestigious All-Star football games: the Kelly Tires Blue & Gray All-Star Football Classic, which was aired on ABC, and the Hooters All-Star Hula Bowl game, where he played against the likes of Ricky Williams and was aired on ESPN.

In 1999, Talamaivao was invited to the NFL National Combine in Indianapolis and was signed as an un-drafted free agent to the Buffalo Bills, where he sustained an injury and ultimately was waived and later picked up by San Diego Chargers. The San Diego Chargers allocated Talamaivao to play in the NFL-Europe league for the Amsterdam Admirals for one year before he returned to San Diego, where he suffered yet another substantial injury that ultimately ended his career with the San Diego Chargers and the NFL altogether.

Despite the “career-ending injury,” Talamaivao regained his status through countless doctors and dedicated training and a year later in 2001, played for the XFL with the San Francisco Demons. The Demons battled L.A. Xtreme in the nationally televised game on NBC, which was coined as the “Million-Dollar Game” (similar to the NFL Super Bowl).

Talamaivao also played two years in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Renegades in Ottawa, Ontario. Upon his final stretch of living out his childhood dream of playing professional football, Talamaivao played Arena Football League for the Detroit Fury before hanging up his cleats for good in 2005.

Upon the end of his professional career, Talamaivao began building his reputation as a top high-end trainer and coach. Armed with experience, substantial training knowledge and credible background, he used all the experience he gained to write an outstanding training program that targeted all football players. He has been recognized for training countless high school and collegiate student-athletes as well as professional (NFL) athletes all across the United States.

Coach Pen has been involved in training first-round draft picks and NFL players as an owner/operator of PTP SPORTS training. He has developed countless NFL and College athletes and has partnered with NFL agencies as a defensive line coach to prep and prepare defensive lineman for NFL combines.

In his free time, Talamaivao enjoys spending time with his family, working on his family business (PTP SPORTS) and helping kids. He is married to Oliie and has four kids.

RCC Defensive Lineman-under Coach Pen

Devonte Wilson (CAL)

Jeremiah Mitchell (Washington State University)

Nico Taylor (Idaho State)

Miki Fangatua (Southeastern University)

Chris Lewis (New Mexico)

Daniel McGhie (Alabama State)

Melvin Johnson II (Toledo University) All-American

Michael Taylor (Arkansas)

Ernest Bagner (Florida Atlantic University)

Misiona Aiolapotea-Pei (Washington State University)

Mykle White (Southern Utah University)