Randy Dunn

Randy Dunn

Title: Athletics Director
Phone: 706.379.5218
Email: rjdunn@yhc.edu

Randy Dunn enters his second year as the athletics director at Young Harris College.

Dunn came to Young Harris after 14 years of service as director of athletics at North Georgia College & State University. He served as the head men’s basketball coach for 14 years before retiring in 2003 to serve full time as athletic director. Dunn oversaw the NGCSU athletic department’s transition from the NAIA to the NCAA Division II and the Peach Belt Conference.
 
During his tenure as athletic director at NGCSU, Dunn oversaw the addition of five new sports: women’s soccer, men's and women's golf, baseball and softball. With Dunn at the helm, the school’s intercollegiate athletic program produced 12 conference championships in the Georgia Athletic Conference, the Georgia-Alabama-Carolina Conference, and the Southern States Athletic Conference, and for two years, the NGCSU softball team has earned the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship and competed in the College World Series. The athletics department facilities at NGCSU grew during his tenure with the addition of the NGCSU Baseball, Softball and Soccer Complex.
 
Dunn is an alumnus of North Georgia College, having played basketball for the Saints for three years, graduating in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education. After completing his undergraduate degree, Dunn was a graduate assistant coach at Georgia Southwestern State University, where he received his master's degree in physical education. He became an assistant coach at the State University of West Georgia in 1981 before returning to his alma mater in 1982.

Dunn’s men’s basketball team won the Georgia-Alabama-Carolina Conference regular season championship and advanced to the NAIA National Tournament in 1996. That same year, Dunn was named GACC men’s basketball “Coach of the Year.” Dunn was selected in 2001 as the Georgia-Alabama-Carolina Conference's Garland Dickey Award recipient as the conference's Athletics Director of the Year.  That same year Dunn was a finalist for the NAIA Athletics Director of the Year award.
 
Dunn is married to the former Susan Reed, and they have a son, Jake.