Coaches Vanessa Fyffe and Dionte Ferguson enter the Dojo to discuss the role of the assistant coach and how good assistant coaches can enhance a program.

2010 Tusculum graduate, Vanessa Fyffe, is the University's Associate Head Women's Soccer Coach. This is Fyffe's second stint on Tusculum's coaching staff. During her first coaching stint at Tusculum, Fyffe helped coach the Pioneers to the 2016 South Atlantic Conference regular-season championship and five SAC Championship tournament appearances, including two trips to the semifinals. She also coached 13 players who received postseason All-Conference honors, while also overseeing the junior varsity program. Two of her goalies, Marissa Williams and Miriah Martin, earned All-SAC honors. Fyffe also has experience coaching at the University of Louisiana Monroe (NCAA D1) and Moravian College (NCAA D3).

Dionte Ferguson serves as Tusculum's Assistant Men's Basketball Coach. Ferguson came to the TU campus after two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Morehead State University (NCAA D2). Ferguson also competed for Morehead State, where he was a part of the 2011 Ohio Valley Conference Championship team. Ferguson graduated from South Alabama, where he served as team captain and was named to the 2015 All-Sun Belt Conference third team. After his collegiate career, Ferguson spent more than two years playing overseas in Spain and the Philippines. In 2016, he was named to the All-EBA League second team while playing for Fundacion Lucentum, Agustinos Eras in Spain and was named the 2017 recipient of the MCBL Best Import Award with FEU-NRMF in the Philippines.