Thunder Coaches

We are excited to announce our new Head Boy’s Basketball coach,Osadonor “Osa” Esene.  Osa comes to Mountain View an extensive playing background at the Division 2 level and with 15 years of coaching experience at multiple levels, including at the collegiate level. He has recently been working at the AAU level coaching 16U teams with an emphasis on skill development and a “team first” approach.  He impressed us with his desire to not only be offensively minded but that there will be an emphasis on the defensive side of the ball as well.

Inglewood High School Player of the Year South Bay Conference/First Team All-Conference (1997-1998) Second Team All-State (1997-1998 and 1998-1999)

University of Hawaii at Hilo Honorable Mention All-Pac West Conference (2002-2003) First Team All-Pac West Conference (2004-2005) Player of the Year Pac West Conference (2004-2005) Division 2 All-American (2004-2005). He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from UH-Hilo, and then his Master’s in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University Irvine (Irvine, Calif.).

Esene also spent four years playing basketball professionally (2004-2009) for the Ludenscheid Baskets in Germany, where he also coached an U18 team to the West Germany Championship.

15 years of coaching at the high school the level in Oregon with multiple trips to the post season. Coached at Centennial, Central Catholic and Lincoln High Schools.

Former Head Men’s coach at Blue Mountain Community College.

Assistant Men’s coach at Concordia University.

Coach Esene is the founder and owner of Ball Out PDX, LLC, an AAU youth basketball organization in the Portland Metro area. He also spent three years as a coach and basketball academy coordinator for All in One Basketball in Portland.