David Hunt enters his third season onthe Texas Volleyball coaching staff as Associate Head Coach for the 2024 season. He joined head coach Jerritt Elliott'sstaff after five seasons as the Pepperdine Men's Volleyball head coach.
The 2023 season saw Texas Volleyball accomplish something only achieved by eight other Longhorn programs in history – winning back-to-back National Championships. Texas finished the season with a 28-4 overall record and swept Nebraska in dominating fashion in the championship match. Madisen Skinner was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player after having already earning Big 12 Player of the Year honors. Asjia O’Neal, Emma Halter and Ella Swindle joined Skinner on the Final Four All-Tournament Team. O’Neal capped off an incredible career with her second-consecutive National Championship and along with Skinner was named a First Team All-American.
In just his first season on the Texas Volleyball staff, Hunt helped lead Texas back to the top of the NCAA Volleyball world by winning the 2022 National Championship.The Longhorns advanced to the program’s 14th Final Four and defeated San Diego in a tough semifinal match before sweeping Louisville in the National Championship match in Omaha, Nebraska. Eggleston was named the AVCA National Player of the Year and Final Four Most Outstanding Player after leading the Longhorns with 19 kills in the championship match. Selected as the No. 1 overall seed in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns spent 13 of 14 weeks ranked in the top spot during the season. Texas won the program’s sixth-consecutive Big 12 Championship and placed a record six players on the All-Big 12 First Team. Eggleston, who was named Big 12 Player of the Year for the third time, led a group of six players on the All-America teams including fellow first teamers Zoe Fleck and Asjia O’Neal.
As head coach at Pepperdine from 2018-22, Hunt compiled a career record of 78-38 and leading the program to three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2019, just his second season as head coach Hunt led the Waves to MPSF regular season and tournament titles, as well as to the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. He was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year following the 2019 and 2022 seasons.
Prior to being named Pepperdine's head coach, Hunt had spent several seasons on the Waves' coaching staff from 2007-14. As an assistant, he was recognized on three occasions with an American Volleyball Coaches Association Thirty Under 30 Award (2010, 2016, 2017).
"Our family is excited to get to Texas," Hunt said. "This is a program that I've watched from afar for a long time and I have seen the high-level athletes who have come through here. This is a unique opportunity to work for a program that's been the best in the country for the last 15 years and to do it with such great people is an opportunity I couldn't pass up."
During his time as head coach, Hunt saw 14 of his players selected as All-Americans and had 15 players named MPSF All-Conference.
Hunt's coaching experience goes beyond the collegiate ranks, as he has spent multiple stints with USA Volleyball with both the men's and women's national teams. In the summer of 2016, Hunt was an assistant coach with the U.S. Women's National Team and helped lead Team USA to a bronze medal finish at the Rio Olympic Games.
In 2014, Hunt was picked as head coach for the U.S. Women's National Team that competed at the NORCECA World Championship Qualification Tournament at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He was a member of the coaching staff for the 2012 U.S. Boys' Youth National Team where the squad won the bronze medal at the NORCECA Boys' Youth Continental Championship.
In 2011, he worked as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's Junior National Team that competed at the FIVB World Championships. In 2008, he was on the staff for the U.S. Men's National Team at the Pan American Cup.
Hunt also spent a brief stint serving as an assistant coach for the Japanese Men's National Team in 2013.
A native of Glendale, Calif., Hunt played volleyball at Pierce College for two years before going on to graduate from UCLA in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in history.
