Career
Mendez represented Venezuela at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for two rifle shooting events. She placed forty-third out of forty-seven shooters in the women"s 10 m air rifle, with a total score of 386 points. Nearly a week later, Mendez competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 192 targets in a prone position, and 188 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 568 points, finishing only in thirty-ninth place.
