hunt commenced his coaching career in the new south wales regional town tamworth. . hunt then progressed to coaching new south wales state teams from 1972. results for these teams were: gold medal for u20 men's in 1979 and silver medals for u16 men in 1972, u16 men in 1973 and u20 country men in 1978. in 1981, he was appointed head coach of the national basketball league team the canberra cannons. he held this position until he was appointed men's basketball coach with the australian institute of sport in july 1981, a position he held until 1993. during this period, with head coach adrian hurley, hunt coached future australian olympic players including mark dalton, luc longley, shane heal, mark bradtke, andrew vlahov and brett maher.