Virginia Union University has named Alico Dunk as the 10th coach in the history of the VUU Women’s Basketball Program.
A press conference will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, June 13, at Barco-Stevens Hall on the Virginia Union campus in Richmond, Va.
Dunk comes to VUU after being the head coach of the Stillman College women’s basketball program for the past eight seasons.
As Stillman’s head coach, Dunk’s guided the Tigers to a 26-6 record, the most single season wins in the program’s history, and the 2025 HBCU Athletic Conference Regular Season Title. The Lady Tigers notched their first win in the NAIA National Tournament while Dunk’s 112 wins are the most by a Stillman women’s basketball head coach in the last four decades.
Prior to Stillman, Dunk spent two seasons as the head men’s coach for Elizabeth City State University. Prior to that, he spent five years as the head coach of the ECSU Lady Vikings, compiling an 83-56 record.
He was the men’s assistant coach from 2003-2009 which included the Vikings’ 2007 CIAA Tournament Championship.
During his five year stint as coach of the women’s team, Coach Dunk built an impressive resume; Under his guidance the Lady Vikings won the CIAA Northern Division twice and he was tabbed as the 2013 CIAA Coach of the Year after leading ECSU to the best record in school history of (24-4 , CIAA 15-1).
A native of Ayden, North Carolina, Coach Dunk was a two-sport athlete at Ayden-Grifton High School in both basketball and football.
By the close of his high school career, he garnered All-Conference recognition in football and basketball, with All-State honors and a McDonald’s All- American nomination coming his senior year in basketball.
Upon graduation in 1994, he attended the University of Tennessee on a basketball scholarship. After the completing a solid freshman campaign as a freshman, Coach Dunk transferred closer to home to play for the Pirates of East Carolina University in Greenville. At ECU he served as the team captain his junior and senior seasons and obtained a Bachelors of Science in Exercise and Sports Science in 1999.
Upon graduation from East Carolina, Dunk taught at Hertford County High School where he was the head girls’ basketball coach for one season. The next year he played professionally in Asia before coming to ECSU.
In 2010 he earned a M.S. in Sports Management from Virginia State University.
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