Women's Basketball

Tandy Bradford was named the 18th head coach of the Tusculum University women's basketball program in April 2026.

Bradford brings a strong resume with her to the Greeneville campus and has over 30 years of coaching experience at the NCAA, NAIA, junior college, high school and AAU levels.

She served as the women’s head basketball coach at Lourdes University for the past five seasons. She inherited a 5-14 team at the Sylvania, Ohio school and grew the program into a winner which posted back-to-back 20-win campaigns including this year’s 22-8 squad. The Gray Wolves finished third in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference while advancing to the WHAC Tournament semifinals.

She led Lourdes to a WHAC Tournament title in 2025 as the Gray Wolves advanced to the NAIA National Tournament for the first time in program history. The team finished 22-11 overall and 16-8 in conference play.

During her time at Lourdes, she mentored 11 All-Conference honorees, while also boasting 27 WHAC All-Academic Team members as her teams consistently posted a GPA over 3.50.

Bradford arrived at Lourdes after spending six seasons as the head coach at St. Ursula Academy, where she led the Arrows to their first winning season in 14 years. She led St. Ursula to a top-three finish in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference each of her last two seasons while guiding the program to their first postseason win in 10 years.
 
From 2016-2019, Bradford also co-owned and was the director for the Glass City Athletics Fury Basketball Organization. She ran a successful 22-team and skill development program in Northwest Ohio. Beginning in 2019, Bradford served as the assistant coach for the Toledo Threat, a women’s professional basketball team.

The Hutchinson, Kansas native began her coaching career at NCAA Division II Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1998 where she spent five seasons, two years as an assistant coach and the last three as head coach. While at Kentucky Wesleyan, she served as senior woman’s administrator and supervised the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She also coached the Panthers women’s golf team for two seasons. In 2002, she was named the Regional Female Coach of the Year.

Following Kentucky Wesleyan, she served on the coaching staff at NCAA Division I University of Toledo where she was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator from 2003-2005. In her two seasons there, she helped the Rockets to a pair of top-four finishes in the Mid-America Conference.

She moved onto the Georgia Tech staff for two years where the Yellow Jackets posted a 37-27 record. In 2006-07, she helped the Ramblin’ Wreck to a 22-12 season as Tech advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

She began her collegiate playing career with two years at Highland Community College before transferring to Thomas More College for her final two seasons. While at Highland CC, she was a two-sport athlete where she lettered in basketball and volleyball. At Thomas More, she served as team captain and earned the Most Improved Player Award as a senior on the basketball team. She graduated from Thomas More in 1997 with a degree in English and secondary education.

She is married to Josh Bradford, who currently serves as the associate director of athletics and head baseball coach at Lourdes University. He played professionally for seven seasons after being drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 15^th round of the 1996 MLB Draft. He spent four years in the Blue Jays’ organization reach the AAA level in 1999 before moving to the Northern League, concluding his playing career in independent baseball.

They have one son, Blake, who is in his senior season on the University of West Georgia baseball team.