[4] Tepend played for the Enga Mioks in the PNG SP Inter-city cup national competition.
The Enga Mioks won the 2000 Digicel cup with Tepend starting at hooker in the win.
Some of Tepend's earliest coaching roles were as an assistant for the PNG national side at the 2017 World Cup and a six time premiership winner as the foundation head coach of the Lae Snax Tigers in the PNG NRL Competition.
[5] In 2022 Tepend was appointed head coach of the 13-aside Papua New Guinea national rugby league team[6] after Michael Marum left to pursue a career in politics.
[7] He is PNG's 13th National Coach and 5th former PNG Kumuls player after John Wagambie, Stanley Gene, Adrian Lam and Michael Marum to become coach of the Kumuls.