Spencer Dunaway
Assistant Men’s Golf Coach, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Spencer Dunaway is the men’s assistant golf coach at UNLV and serves as a support staff member for Next Athletes and the Nike Golf Camps.
Spencer Dunaway joined the UNLV men's golf coaching staff as an assistant coach in July 2023.
Dunaway comes to Las Vegas after serving in the same role at Utah for the 2022-23 season. During that stint, he helped lead the Utes to six top-10 finishes, the program's second-highest individual finisher at a Pac-12 Championship and an individual NCAA Regional qualifier.
Prior to Utah, Dunaway began his coaching career in 2021 at Utah Tech. In his lone season with Trailblazers, the men's golf team posted three top-10 finishes, highlighted by a fifth-place outing at the Southern Utah Pizza Hut Pat Hicks Invitational Open.
A former student-athlete, Dunaway played four years of collegiate golf at BYU, where he finished his career with one win (2020 San Diego State Coronado Invitational), a 73.89 career scoring average, nine top-20 finishes and three top-five outings. Additionally, Dunaway won the 2021 Hawaii State Amatuer title, was a two-time Utah State Amateur semifinalist and qualified for the U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach in 2018.
A 2016-17 All-WCC honorable mention and 2015-16 Freshman All-WCC Team selection, Dunaway helped guide the Cougars to a 2017 West Coast Conference title, three straight NCAA Regional appearances and back-to-back NCAA Championship trips in 2018 and 2019.
Originally from Mililani, Hawaii, Dunaway graduated from BYU in 2020 with his bachelor's degree in psychology. He has a wife, Lauren, and his hobbies include playing pickleball, boating and watching movies.