Trevor Dunbar

Trevor Dunbar joined the Virginia coaching staff in the spring of 2021 as an assistant coach for distance runners. He spent the previous season as an assistant coach at California where he coached the Golden Bears’ distance competitors. Prior to that, he worked for two seasons at Florida State as an operations assistant with the distance program.

The Virginia men put together a record setting 2023-2024 season. The 2024 outdoor season saw the teams first (outright) ACC Men’s Championships team title in program history scoring a total of 107 points.The team went on to finish eighth at the Outdoor NCAA Championships with 26 points and led by five First Team All-Americans and three honorable mention. Dunbar qualified eight athletes in four events for the NCAA. Dunbar’s athletes were responsible for 69 of the men’s total 107 points and six medals to win the men’s ACC Outdoor title. Furthermore, five athletes including Shane Cohen, Gary Martin, Nate Mountain, Yasin Sado and Wes Porter qualified for their first US Olympic Team Trials.

At the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Shane Cohen became just the third Virginia athlete to win the 800m NCAA title clocking personal-best 1:44.97. In thrilling fashion, Cohen became only the second colligate athlete to run sub 1:45 for 800m. Cohen finished third at the ACC Outdoor Championships.

Throughout the season, Nate Mountain (8:20.68) and Yasin Sado (8:27.13) led the country in the men’s 3000mSC. The two went on to finish first and second at the ACC Outdoor Championships with Mountain winning back-to-back ACC gold medals. At the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Mountain finished runner-up while Sado finished seventh. Gary Martin and Wes Porter asserted their dominance in the men’s 1500m from finishing second and third at the ACC Outdoor Championships to qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships where Porter went on to finish sixth.

Will Anthony also had a strong season earning the silver medal in the 10,000m (29:18.80) and bronze medal in the 5000m (13:40.17). In his first outdoor season, Anthony qualified to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the men’s 10,000m.

The men’s 4xMile team of Will Anthony, Gary Martin, Yasin Sado and Wes Porter made history at the 2024 Penn Relays. The quartet recorded the fourth-fastest time in the world, second-fastest time in NCAA history and a Virginia school record for the 4xMile race clocking 15:52.30. The Cavaliers were just one of three collegiate teams to dip under 16 minutes for the relay and surpass the collegiate record in the event.

The 2023-2024 Indoor season saw the Virginia men finishing seventh as a team at the ACC Indoor Championships with 50.5 points. The season was highlighted by the men’s distance medley relay team of Wes Porter, Alex Sherman, Alex Leath and Yasin Sado finishing third at the Indoor NCAA Championships after the quartet of Shane Cohen, James Donahue, Jayden Lyons and Wes Porter won gold at the ACC Indoor Championships.

Putting on a show at the ACC Indoor Championships, Gary Martin earned silver in the mile and bronze in the 3000m. The final of the men’s mile at the ACC Championships was comprised of four Cavaliers including James Donahue, Gary Martin, Nate Mountain and Wes Porter. Martin qualified for his first NCAA Indoor Championships where he went on to record the fourth fastest qualifying time to the final. This is the second season with more than one Cavalier running sub-4 in the mile on the same day- Nate Mountain (3:58.16), Will Anthony (3:58.39) and Wes Porter (3:58.85) andd then Yasin Sado (3:55.93), Wes Porter (3:58.57) and James Donahue (3:58.83).

The Cavalier distance medley relay team put on a show at the Arkansas Qualifier recording fourth-fastest time in collegiate history and setting the Virginia school record. The group of Gary Martin, Alex Leath, Alex Sherman and Conor Murphy clocked 9:18.95 with Martin running the fastest split in the NCAA that weekend with 3:51.94 for 1600 meters.

During the 2023 Cross Country season, the Cavalier men finished third at the ACC Championships scoring 77 points before finishing inside the top-25 scoring 512 points for 22nd at the NCAA Championships. Three men in Will Anthony, Nate Mountain and Yasin Sado earned USTFCCCA All-Southeast Region while four men in Gary Martin, Anthony, Mountain and Sado garnered All-ACC accolades.

Virginia hosted the NCAA Cross Country Championships in 2023 for the first time since the 1987 season. The 2023 Cross Country Championships were just the fourth NCAA Championship event hosted at UVA with a sold out the crowd of 6,723 fans in attendance. Both men’s and women’s teams qualified for the NCAA Championships in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2014-2015.

The Virginia distance runners put together an impressive campaign which saw many highlights throughout the 2022-2023 year including a spectacular team performance at Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational. Five Cavalier milers (Conor Murphy, Gary Martin, Wes Porter, Nate Mountain, James Donahue) broke the prestigious four-minute barrier on the same day. Of those two, Conor Murphy broke a 41-year-old Virginia record running 3:55.24 while Gary Martin set a Virginia freshman record with his time of 3:56.83. The UVA milers would go on to put five milers (Wes Porter, James Donahue, Jack Eliason, Nate Mountain and Gary Martin) through to the field of 10 in the finals at the ACC Championships. Virginia took 13 points from the event with Porter leading the Hoos with his third-place finish.

Conor Murphy went on to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the mile where he placed sixth overall to earn first-team All-American honors for the first time in his career. The junior also placed second at the ACC Indoor Championships with a personal-best time of 1:47.33.

The Cavaliers distance medley relay team was phenomenal as well throughout the season as they broke the Virginia record twice including a time of 9:23.71 which ranked as No.7 on the all-time program list when it was run. Virginia ranked 15th on the NCAA DMR list at the end of the season missing qualification for the national championships by three places.

The 2022 cross country season was an improvement for the Virginia men. After placing sixth at the ACC Championships, the Cavaliers were led by Justin Wachtel and Derek Johnson to a second-place finish at the NCAA regional meet to secure automatic qualification to the NCAA Championships. The Cavaliers would finish 22nd overall at the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Justin Wachtel, Yasin Sado and Wes Porter garnered All-ACC honors while Wachtel, Derek Johnson, Yasin Sado, Rohann Asfaw and Will Anthony made All-Southeast Region.

In Dunbar’s first indoor campaign he helped to oversee the development of an impressive squad of men’s mile runners as the Cavaliers made up four of the ten qualifiers for the finals of the men’s mile at the ACC Championships (Wes Porter, Nate Mountain, Yasin Sado, Ka’eo Kruse). The Cavalier men also placed fifth in the distance medley relay.

In his first season on Grounds, Dunbar helped steeplechaser Derek Johnson to some remarkable achievements. After earning all-ACC honors, he went on to run a school-record 8:32.95 in the NCAA finals to earn first-team All-America honors thanks to a seventh-place finish.  Two days later at the TrackTown Qualifier, he improved that mark down to 8:27.72 to make the Olympic Trials. His season came to an end in the Olympic Trials qualifying round, where he finished 15th overall in 8:32.97.

Dunbar’s coaching resume includes a year of experience as a volunteer assistant at Boston University in 2018-19. He previously served as a volunteer coach at his alma mater – Oregon – from 2014 to 2016.

At Virginia, Dunbar is reunited with his collegiate coach – Vin Lananna – from the start of his career at Oregon. He helped the Ducks to a pair of NCAA track & field championships (2014), grabbing five All-American honors while establishing collegiate-bests of 3:38.38 in the 1,500-meters, 7:51.55 in the 3,000-meters, 13:26.90 in the 5,000-meters and 28:52.39 in the 10,000-meters.

A native of Kodiak, Alaska, his decorated running career includes seven high school state championships and multiple state records. He spent his first two collegiate seasons at the University of Portland, where he earned two cross country All-American honors while competing for the Pilots (2009-11) before transferring to Oregon where he graduated with a degree in business administration.

As a professional runner, Dunbar first ran representing Nike Inc. (2014-17) before moving on to the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) in 2018, running both at national and international competitions. Dunbar has represented Team USA both in cross country and on the track.