Steve Haunga

Biography

Haunga has worked his way up the coaching ladder over the last decade, starting his career as a strength and conditioning intern at Boise State and Cal. He returns to Berkeley as a full-time coach after having held multiple roles on various offensive staffs as an analyst. Haunga follows Lupoi from Oregon, where he has served as an offensive analyst for the last four seasons (2022-25). He has worked with multiple top-10 offenses and elite talents, including now-NFL quarterbacks Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel. Following a breakout season by Nix in 2022, the Ducks led the nation in 2023 in passing offense (346.9 ypg) and ranked second in scoring offense (44.2 ppg). Prior to his time in Eugene, Haunga spent two seasons with North Texas (2020-21) as an offensive quality control coach. In 2019, Haunga served as a graduate assistant for the offensive line at Auburn during Nix's SEC Freshman of the Year rookie season. Haunga also had a three-year stint with Tulsa in three different roles, beginning in 2016 as a graduate assistant on the athletic performance staff before holding roles as an offensive graduate assistant in 2017 and an offensive analyst in 2018. As a player, he was a two-year letterwinner on the offensive line at Arkansas State and served as team captain as a 2013 senior. He played two seasons at College of the Canyons before moving on to Arkansas State, where he graduated with a bachelor's in interdisciplinary studies in 2014.