University of California, Santa Barbara

Spencer Afshari is joining UC Santa Barbara as a sports performance coach after having interned and worked in sports since 2020. 

Afshari began at Cal Lutheran as a Volunteer Sport Performance Coach, where he helped implement an athlete readiness system. He was later brought on as a full-time assistant, working with Men’s and Women’s Tennis, Men’s Volleyball and Track & Field athletes. He was part of the staff that guided their Men’s Volleyball team to the 2024 NCAA Division III National Championship.

Prior to his time at Cal Lutheran, Afshari served as a Sports Performance Intern at Sports Academy and later at Pepperdine University. At Sports Academy, he assisted performance coaches with training sessions, working with professional, collegiate and youth athletes across multiple sports. At Pepperdine, he gained hands-on Division I experience in a similar role while further developing his coaching voice.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a Minor in Nutrition from Chapman University.