Following the departure of former girls’s basketball coach Tierra Terry, who was employed to take over the same function at Winston-Salem State, the Virginia Union Panthers have introduced her successor.
Longtime HBCU basketball coach Alico Dunk turns into the tenth head coach within the historical past of the Virginia Union girls’s basketball program.
A former student-athlete on the College of Tennessee and East Carolina, Dunk started teaching in 2003 as an assistant on the Elizabeth Metropolis State males’s basketball workforce.
He spent six years on this function, serving to lead the Vikings to their most up-to-date CIAA event title in 2007 earlier than being employed as the college’s girls’s basketball coach.
Dunk served on this function for 5 seasons, main the Girl Vikings to an 83-56 total document and two division titles. In 2013, he was named CIAA Coach of the Yr after posting a program-best 24-5 total document.
The East Carolina alum then took over as ECSU’s males’s basketball coach earlier than accepting the ladies’s basketball coach function at Stillman.
In his eight seasons as Stillman’s girls’s basketball coach, Dunk posted a 122-106 total document, together with 5 seasons ending with a document above .500.
The 2025 season was essentially the most profitable, catapulting the Girl Tigers to a 26-6 total document and a berth within the NAIA Girls’s Basketball Event.
Stillman continued to make historical past, notching its first win in a NAIA Nationwide Event contest, following an 83-79 first-round victory over Rio Grande.
Virginia Union completed the 2025 on wi-9 total document, marking its first 20-win season since 2020.
The Panthers have recorded consecutive profitable seasons after snapping their first streak of consecutive shedding seasons in a decade.
