Ruben Mendoza is a strength and conditioning coach and a former guard in the National Football League.

[4] Mendoza's first coaching experience was as a graduate assistant at the University of South Carolina.

Four years as the Coordinator of Strength and Conditioning at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga before moving to Clemson University to serve as Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning.

Mendoza later spent four years as Director of Strength and Conditioning at the University of Mississippi before being named Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at the University of Notre Dame.

He is now the head strength and conditioning coach at Wayne State University in Detroit.