Tandy Bradford was named the fifth head women’s basketball coach at Lourdes University in August of 2021.
The 2024-2025 season will be Bradford's fourth season at the helm of the Gray Wolves, holding a 31-56 record. Overall, it will stand as her eighth season as a collegiate head coach, entering the year with a 52-115 career record.
In her short time with the Gray Wolves, Bradford has already produced six Second Team All Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference selections, more than triple the previous total in program history prior to her arrival. The 2023-24 campaign marked the third consecutive season the Gray Wolves have had multiple players earn Second Team All-WHAC accolades in the same year. She has also had three players earn WHAC Player of the Week accolades.
In the classroom, Bradford has had 19 players named to the WHAC All-Academic Team while 18 have been named NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Her program has also been named a NAIA Scholar Team in all three seasons she has led the Gray Wolves.
the 2023-24 season marked a record-setting campaign for the Lourdes Gray Wolves, as Bradford guided the team to a 12-win season, the most of any team in program history.
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 took 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 victory in 10 years.
From 2016-2019, Bradford also co-owned and was the girl’s director for the Glass City Athletics Fury Basketball Organization. She helped to run 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.
Bradford also had a great deal of pervious collegiate coaching experience. She began as an assistant coach at Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1998-1999 and after two seasons was promoted to the program’s head coach, a position she fulfilled for three years. She was named to the Female Regional Coach of the Year in 2002.
Following her tenure at Kentucky Wesleyan, Bradford was as an assistant coach for two seasons at the University of Toledo, where she also served as the Rockets’ recruiting coordinator. From there, Bradford went to Georgia Tech, was she was an administrative coordinator assistant for two seasons with the Yellow Jackets.
Bradford is a 1997 graduate of Thomas More College where she finished her basketball career and earned her bachelor’s degree in English and secondary education.
