Women's Swimming & Diving
- Title:
- Director of Operations and Player Development
Dunaway comes to U-M after most recently serving as the director of operations at Ohio State from 2017-21, where he coordinated all operational aspects of the Buckeyes' program. He has worked in a university setting since 2006, including a stint as head swimming and diving coach at Transylvania University from 2010-14.
While serving as the head coach at Transylvania, Dunaway helped his student-athletes break 34 school records and was named the 2014 Women's Coach of the Year in the Ohio Athletic Conference. Transylvania swimmers garnered six individual conference titles, set four conference records and saw 27 all-conference performances.
In 2013, he added an assistant athletic director title to his duties, including marketing efforts for all 26 programs and program oversight of several programs.
Prior to his time at Transylvania, Dunaway also made stops at DePauw University and Wabash College, where he served as an assistant swimming coach. At DePauw, he helped lead the team to a 13th-place finish at NCAA Division III Championships in 2010 and a sixth consecutive Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title. While at Wabash, his swimmers broke seven school records and earned three individual NCAA Division III Championship qualifications. Out of the pool, he arranged travel arrangements for all student-athletes and coaches while also serving as the aquatics director for the college's multi-million dollar swimming facility.
A graduate of Wittenberg University, Dunaway was a two-time team captain and a letterwinner in each of his four years on the swim team. He was a five-time North Coast Athletic Conference semifinalist and the 400 individual medley school record holder. In 2003, he was selected to attend the NCAA's Leadership Conference, one of just 300 student-athletes nationwide to attend.
