{{Short description|American basketball coach (born 1989)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Austin Claunch | image = Austin Claunch.jpg | alt = | caption = Austin Claunch coaching UTSA in 2025 | current_title = Head coach | current_team = UTSA | current_conference = The American | current_record = {{winpct|17|44|record=y}} | contract = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|11|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 2008–2012 | player_team1 = Emory | admin_years1 = 2012–2013 | admin_team1 = George Mason (director of player development) | coach_years1 = 2013–2015 | coach_team1 = Clemson (graduate assistant) | coach_years2 = 2016–2018 | coach_team2 = Nicholls State (assistant) | coach_years3 = 2018–2023 | coach_team3 = Nicholls | coach_years4 = 2023–2024 | coach_team4 = Alabama (assistant) | coach_years5 = 2024–present | coach_team5 = UTSA | overall_record = {{winpct|107|105|record=y}} | bowl_record = | tournament_record = 0–1 (NIT) | championships = 2 Southland regular season (2021, 2022) | awards = Southland Coach of the Year (2021) | coaching_records = }}
'''Austin Claunch''' (born November 17, 1989) is an American college basketball coach. He has served as the head coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) since 2024.<ref name="UTSA Claunch hiring">{{cite web|url=https://goutsa.com/news/2024/03/17/utsa-names-austin-claunch-head-mens-basketball-coach|title=UTSA Names Austin Claunch Head Men’s Basketball Coach|publisher=University of Texas at San Antonio|date=March 17, 2024|access-date=March 17, 2024}}</ref>
==Playing career== Claunch played four years at Emory, where he was a three-time First Team All-University Athletic Association selection, finishing his career with the Eagles as the school's all-time assists leader, and ranking eighth all-time in career points.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/Bios/Claunch?view=bio|title=Austin Claunch|website=Emory}}</ref>
==Coaching career== After graduation, Claunch spent the 2012–13 season as the director of player development under Paul Hewitt at George Mason, and from 2013 to 2015 served as a graduate manager at Clemson before being named the assistant video services director for the Tigers for the 2015–16 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28500&ATCLID=209225927|title=Austin Claunch Bio|publisher=|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713195823/http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28500&ATCLID=209225927|archive-date=July 13, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Claunch earned his first collegiate assistant coaching position at Nicholls State, joining Richie Riley's staff.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geauxcolonels.com/news/2016/6/6/mens-basketball-austin-claunch-named-nicholls-basketball-assistant-coach.aspx?path=mbball|title=Austin Claunch Named Nicholls Basketball Assistant Coach|website=Nicholls State University}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geauxcolonels.com/staff.aspx?staff=207|title=The Official Website of Nicholls Athletics|website=www.geauxcolonels.com}}</ref> After two seasons as an assistant, he was elevated to the head coaching position at Nicholls when Riley accepted the head coaching position at South Alabama.<ref name="geauxcolonels.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.geauxcolonels.com/news/2018/3/29/austin-claunch-selected-as-colonels-12th-head-mens-basketball-coach.aspx|title=Austin Claunch selected as Colonels 12th head men's basketball coach – Nicholls State University|website=Nicholls State University}}</ref>
Claunch was named the head coach of UTSA on March 17, 2024.<ref name="UTSA Claunch hiring"/>
==Head coaching record== ===NCAA DI=== {{CBB Yearly Record Start|type=coach|conference=|postseason=|poll=both}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name =Nicholls Colonels | conference=Southland Conference | startyear =2018 | endyear =2023 }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship= | season= 2018–19 | name= Nicholls | overall= 14–17 | conference= 7–11 | confstanding= T–9th | postseason= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship= | season= 2019–20 | name= Nicholls | overall= 21–10 | conference= 15–5 | confstanding= T–2nd | postseason= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship=conference | season= 2020–21 | name= Nicholls | overall= 18–7 | conference= 14–2 | confstanding= 1st | postseason= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship=conference | season= 2021–22 | name= Nicholls | overall= 21–12 | conference= 11–3 | confstanding= 1st | postseason= NIT First Round }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship= | season= 2022–23 | name= Nicholls | overall= 16–15 | conference= 11–7 | confstanding= 4th | postseason= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Nicholls | overall = 90–61 ({{winpct|90|61}}) | confrecord = 58–28 ({{winpct|58|28}}) }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead | name =UTSA Roadrunners | conference=American Athletic Conference | startyear =2024 | endyear = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship= | season= 2024–25 | name= UTSA | overall= 12–19 | conference= 6–12 | confstanding= T–9th | postseason= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship= | season= 2025–26 | name= UTSA | overall= 5–25 | conference= 1–17 | confstanding= 13th | postseason= }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = UTSA | overall = {{winpct|17|44|record=y}} | confrecord = {{winpct|7|29|record=y}} }} {{CBB Yearly Record End | overall = {{winpct|107|105|record=y}} | poll = | polltype = | polltype2 = }}
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