Austin Claunch
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UTSA |
Conference | The American |
Record | 5–5 (.500) |
Biographical details | |
Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | November 17, 1989
Playing career | |
2008–2012 | Emory |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2013–2015 | Clemson (graduate assistant) |
2016–2018 | Nicholls State (assistant) |
2018–2023 | Nicholls |
2023–2024 | Alabama (assistant) |
2024–present | UTSA |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2012–2013 | George Mason (director of player development) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 95–66 (.590) |
Tournaments | 0–1 (NIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 Southland regular season (2021, 2022) | |
Awards | |
Southland Coach of the Year (2021) | |
Austin Claunch (born November 17, 1989) is an American college basketball coach. He has served as the head coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) since 2024.[1]
Playing career
[edit]Claunch played four years at Emory, where he was a three-time First Team All-University Athletic Association selection, finishing his career with the Eagles as the school's all-time assists leader, and ranking eighth all-time in career points.[2]
Coaching career
[edit]After graduation, Claunch spent the 2012–13 season as the director of player development under Paul Hewitt at George Mason, and from 2013 to 2015 served as a graduate manager at Clemson before being named the assistant video services director for the Tigers for the 2015–16 season.[3]
Claunch earned his first collegiate assistant coaching position at Nicholls State, joining Richie Riley's staff.[4][5] After two seasons as an assistant, he was elevated to the head coaching position at Nicholls when Riley accepted the head coaching position at South Alabama.[6]
Claunch was named the head coach of UTSA on March 17, 2024.[1]
Head coaching record
[edit]NCAA DI
[edit]Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Nicholls Colonels (Southland Conference) (2018–2023) | |||||||||
2018–19 | Nicholls | 14–17 | 7–11 | T–9th | |||||
2019–20 | Nicholls | 21–10 | 15–5 | T–2nd | |||||
2020–21 | Nicholls | 18–7 | 14–2 | 1st | |||||
2021–22 | Nicholls | 21–12 | 11–3 | 1st | NIT First Round | ||||
2022–23 | Nicholls | 16–15 | 11–7 | 4th | |||||
Nicholls: | 90–61 (.596) | 58–28 (.674) | |||||||
UTSA Roadrunners (American Athletic Conference) (2024–present) | |||||||||
2024–25 | UTSA | 5–5 | 0–0 | ||||||
UTSA: | 5–5 (.500) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
"ARMADURA Z29 HELMET ARMOR Z29" by OSCAR CREATIVO |
95–66 (.590) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "UTSA Names Austin Claunch Head Men's Basketball Coach". University of Texas at San Antonio. March 17, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
- ^ "Austin Claunch". Emory.
- ^ "Austin Claunch Bio". Archived from the original on July 13, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
- ^ "Austin Claunch Named Nicholls Basketball Assistant Coach". Nicholls State University.
- ^ "The Official Website of Nicholls Athletics". www.geauxcolonels.com.
- ^ "Austin Claunch selected as Colonels 12th head men's basketball coach – Nicholls State University". Nicholls State University.
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