Track & Field
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- ethan@tulane.edu
- Phone:
- 862-8237
Ethan "Coach Scooby" Sandusky was hired as the Tulane track and field team's newest assistant coach in October of 2019.
During his first season Uptown, Sandusky helped Nastja Modic to a stellar indoor season as she finished second in the pole vault at the American Athletic Conference Championship with a career-best height of 4.13 meters. The sophomore recorded top-five finishes in all five meets in the 2019 season, moving up to take the fourth-best mark in program history.
Sandusky comes to New Orleans from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he served as a volunteer coach at the University of Arkansas since August 2018.
Monitoring and assisting with all field events for the men’s and women’s programs – primarily pole vault and high jump – Sandusky helped his athletes achieve many accomplishments over the past year.
The women’s indoor and outdoor teams were crowned NCAA Champions and SEC Champions (Triple Crown), the men’s indoor team finished the season as SEC Runner Up and two of his student-athletes finished as NCAA individual champions while six earned All-America honors in 2019.
Before his time with the Razorbacks, Sandusky spent two years as a volunteer coach at the University of Nebraska. From 2016 to 2018, he helped produce two Big Ten Champions and seven Big Ten medalists.
During his undergraduate career at Arkansas State, Sandusky spent a summer working as a research assistant with Pole-Vaulting Biomechanics at the USA Track and Field Championships at SUNY Cortland in New York.
In his three months there, Sandusky worked to position proper velocities on the competition runway to analyze athletes and determined kinematic velocities of pole-vaulters to provide in-depth performance reviews.
Sandusky graduated with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 2014 and a master’s degree in exercise science in 2016, garnering some impressive accomplishments during his time with the Red Wolves.
As a three-time Sunbelt Conference pole-vault champion, Sandusky was also an NCAA outdoor preliminary round qualifier twice and a finalist in 2015, finishing 16th in the nation. Becoming the Sunbelt record holder in 2015, Sandusky also broke into the top 10 standings in Arkansas State’s record books in both the pole-vault and heptathlon.
