Chris Dunn serves as the recruiting coordinator for the LIU women’s basketball program. He joined the Sharks for the 2019-20 season and was promoted to associate head coach in 2021.
Dunn’s focuses on working with the team’s guards, overseeing player development for guards and post players, scouting, and recruiting domestic and international.
Under his watch, the Sharks were able to recruit Tayra Eke, Danielle Grim and Emaia O’Brien, all of whom gained multiple weekly NEC top performer honors during the 2021-22 season.
Dunn takes the lead in official and unofficial visits.
Under Dunn’s mentorship and player development, Brandy Thomas completed the 2021-22 season as an All-NEC first-team performer, after earning third-team honors the previous year.
The Sharks have shown improvement in wins with Dunn and have produced the highest scoring average by an LIU team in years.
Dunn arrived at LIU after an 11-year professional basketball career overseas, which included playing in 10 different countries.
In 2013, he was named Eurobasket.com Hungarian League Player of the Year, Import Player of the Year, and Guard of the Year. He averaged 19.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 2.7 steals per game that season while shooting 53.1 percent from the field for Kaposvari KK.
Dunn later guided the Magnofit Gussin Knights to the Austrian Bundesliga Championship and Austrian Cup in 2015, earning finals MVP honors. He was also named to the Eurobasket.com All-Austrian League first team and All-Import team after registering 13.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game while shooting 48.6 percent from the field.
He concluded his playing career in 2018 with an All-Star season for Kaposvari KK in Hungary.
Dunn garnered postseason honors from Eurobasket.com eight times in his professional career.
Dunn was a four-year standout at West Virginia State. He earned the 2003 WVIAC Rookie of the Year honor and concluded his career with All-WVIAC second-team honors. He led the team to the WVIAC tournament title in 2006. He is the Yellow Jackets’ program record-holder in career assists, steals, points, and rebounds.
Dunn ranks in the top 15 in NCAA D-II history with more than 700 career assists.
He has served as a player development coach overseas and in the United States.
Dunn graduated with a bachelor’s degree in general studies from West Virginia State in 2014.
