David Dunham enters his first season as a member of the Idaho coaching staff in 2023-24.
Dunham will serve as an assistant coach on the Idaho men’s basketball coaching staff after spending the past seven seasons as the head assistant coach at Western Washington University.
With 17 seasons of collegiate coaching experience, Dunham has been a part of 16 winning seasons, four conference championships and two NCAA appearances. He has been instrumental in developing 20 players who have gone on to play in the professional ranks and has also been selected by Silver Waves Media as one of the 50 most impactful D2 Assistants in America.
It didn’t take long for Dunham to make an immediate impact at WWU, as he helped lead the team to a 25-6 overall mark, a GNAC regular season and tournament title, and clinch a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Division ll Championships in his first season (2016-17). He sustained that success by guiding the Vikings to its second GNAC tournament title in four seasons and notched a No. 2 seed in the Dll Championships in 2019-20.
Dunham helped develop six Vikings who went on to receive professional contacts following the 2017-18 season at WWU.
Prior to his time at WWU, Dunham was the head coach for three seasons at Whatcom Community College from 2013-16. He led the Orcas to a pair of playoff appearances, a runner-up finish in the NWAC championship game, a 48-37 overall mark and was named the NWAC North Region Coach of the Year.
Before taking over as head coach at Whatcom, Dunham served as the top assistant for 10 seasons, including an associate head coach role from 2011-13. He helped lead the Orcas to a North Region record 10 consecutive postseason appearances during his tenure as an assistant.
Dunham graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology at Lewis-Clark State College in 1994 and earned his master’s degree in Sports Administration at Southeastern Oklahoma State in 2022.
Before his coaching tenure, Dunham was a standout collegiate player at Golden West Junior College for two seasons, where he earned first-team Orange Coast League recognition in his sophomore season. He went on to play one more season at LCSC (1993-94).
A Pasadena, Calif. native, Dunham, graduated from Pasadena High School in 1989. He and his wife, Meghan (Valenti) have three children – son Stefon and daughters Hayden, and Quinn.
