Wyatt Pauley

Wyatt Pauley was named head tennis coach at Tusculum University on Aug. 18, 2025. Pauley brings a wealth of coaching experience at both the NCAA Division I and II levels including the last four seasons as DII head coach.

He comes to Greeneville from Quincy University where he guided the men’s and women’s programs during the 2024-2025 campaign. He mentored three All-Great Lakes Valley Conference selections as well as two GLVC Player of the Week honorees. The men’s team posted a 13-9 record as the Hawks posted a nine-win improvement from the previous season. The QU women’s team recorded eight victories, an improvement from a season ago. The women’s team also earned the GLVC Team Academic All-Conference Award and the ITA All-Academic Team Award.

While at Quincy, six of his student-athletes earned GLVC Academic All-Conference distinction including three who were named to the GLVC Council of President’s Academic Excellence Award. Two of his players also garnered the James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award.

Pauley, a native of St. Cloud, Minnesota, served three years as the head coach at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania where he guided the tennis fortunes from 2021-2022. During his tenure at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference program, he oversaw improvement from past seasons with the KU men boasting a seven-win campaign in 2022-2023 for their highest victory tally in six seasons. The women recorded an eight-win season that year, the program’s best showing since 2013-2014.

In 2022, he was named the USTA Eastern Pennsylvania District College Coach of the Year. He coached two PSAC East All-Conference first team selections as well as the PSAC East Freshman of the Year. His men’s and women’s teams garnered ITA All-Academic Team honors all three years at Kutztown while boasting 38 PSAC Scholar-Athlete honorees.

Prior to Kutztown, Pauley spent a season as the associate head coach at Chicago State, where he led the Cougar men and women to Western Athletic Conference Championship appearances in the 2020-2021 campaign.

During the 2019-2020 season, he assumed the role of assistant coach for the men's team at Saint Louis University where the Bilikens went 5-8 to open the year before the season was cut short due to COVID-19.

Before his time as an assistant at SLU, Pauley took the reins of the UHSP St. Louis men's and women's teams for the spring of 2019, leading both teams to American Midwest Conference/Heart of America Athletic Conference Championships appearances.

The 2018 Quincy University graduate spent a season as a volunteer assistant at Missouri-St. Louis helping the Tritons during the fall season of 2018.

Pauley was a four-year starter at Quincy where he was team captain and a two-time GLVC Academic All-Conference selection along with an ITA All-Academic nod in 2016. He graduated with honors earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

Pauley is married to the former Jackie Farbak of New Lenox, Illinois and they are the proud parents of two children, Wes and Sadie.