Bryan Tatum - Director of Women's Basketball Sports Performance - Women's Basketball Support Staff

Bryan Tatum

Title:
Director of Women's Basketball Sports Performance
Year At Tennessee:
3rd
Alma Mater (Year):
West Liberty (2005)
Email:
btatum3@utk.edu

The 2023-24 campaign was the third year for Bryan Tatum with the Tennessee women’s basketball program, coming aboard Kellie Harper’s staff as the director of basketball sports performance on June 11, 2021.

Tatum spent the previous seven years as an assistant athletic performance coach at Auburn, working with the Tiger football team. He and Harper have worked together previously at two stops along her coaching path. He was on her staff from 2008-10 at Western Carolina and provided his expertise at NC State from 2011-14.

Joining the Auburn football program in 2014, Tatum possesses 17 years of collegiate coaching experience with a mindset of growth and development meshed with a slight-edge philosophy. That viewpoint, which holds that “consistently repeated daily actions, plus time, equal unconquerable results,” comes from the book “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson.

Tatum arrived at Auburn from NC State, where he was an assistant strength and conditioning coach for three years from 2011-14, working with women’s basketball, wrestling, men’s and women’s golf, and rifle.

Prior to his time in Raleigh, he was the assistant strength and conditioning coordinator at Western Carolina (2008-2010), assisting with football and coordinating women’s basketball, women’s soccer, softball, volleyball, women’s tennis, men’s and women’s cross country, track and field and cheerleading.

Tatum spent two years as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coordinator at Western Kentucky (2006-2008), assisting with football while coordinating men’s and women’s soccer. He completed a master’s degree in exercise physiology from WKU in 2008.

He played football at West Liberty (W. Va.) State College and earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology with a minor in physical therapy in 2005. A team captain as a junior and senior, he was part of the 2000 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions. In 2002, he was an All-WVIAC selection at defensive back.

Following graduation, Tatum completed an internship at Notre Dame before returning to his alma mater as a strength and conditioning coach while also serving as an assistant football and co-head track and field coach.

Tatum holds a number of professional certifications, including RSCC, CSCS, USAW, USATF, ISSC, SAQ, FMS, CES, MAT, RPR-2, FRCMS and TPI. He is married to the former Alison Poe of Barboursville, West Virginia, and they have four children: Jaxson, Jett, Hensley and Jude.