Randy Tuggle enters his third year leading Greensboro College women's basketball team in 2011-12. He was named head coach in May, 2009.

He replaced his cousin, Jason Tuggle, who accepted the Director of Athletics post at his alma mater: Eden's Morehead High School. Randy was the lead Pride women's basketball assistant coach under Jason Tuggle.

In 2010-11, Tuggle and The Pride raced out to a 24 consecutive wins and finished the season at a program best 28-3.  GC advanced to the USA South Athletic Conference finals and made an appearance in the NCAA Division III tournament.  The Pride climbed as high as number ten in the nation and concluded the year with a #15 ranking. 

After knocking off Saint Vincent in the first round of the national tournament, GC beat Juniata in a 57-55 thriller to move on to the Sweet 16.  The Pride were paced in 2010-11 by All-American Danielle Duncan.

During his tenure as an assistant coach at Greensboro College,Tuggle helped lead The Pride to three Conference Regular Season Championships, four Conference Tournament Championships, and four NCAA Tournament appearances.

The 2008-09 GC women's basketball team completed the best season of any previous Greensboro College hoops team. The Pride went 27-3 and produced a .900 winning percentage. Greensboro finished an unprecedented 18-0 in conference play, and captured the USA South regular season crown for the fourth time in five seasons. The team advanced to the NCAA tournament--its first ever as an at-large selection. GC reached #18 in the national rankings and won a program-record 21 straight games.

Tuggle arrived at Greensboro College in 2001 after spending three years as an assistant coach at Northwest Guilford High School, his alma mater, where he ran cross country in addition to playing basketball for the Vikings. Prior to his time at Northwest, Randy was an assistant coach at Western Guilford High School where the Hornets were Piedmont Triad 3A Conference champions and advanced in the State Play-offs. He also helped start the NC Lady Gators AAU program, a team that placed 6th at Nationals

As a longtime native of the Greensboro area, Randy was a four-year letter winner for the Spartans of UNC-Greensboro. His junior year he played an integral role with a Spartan squad that qualified for the NCAA national tournament, and was selected team captain his senior season.

In addition to basketball, Tuggle has strong connections to the Greensboro business community. Active in local mortgage and real estate field since 1980, he most recently was a loan officer at Suntrust Bank. From 1997-2007, he was self employed with Homestead Mortgage/Acceptance.

Coach Tuggle is also the head coach for the men's and women's cross country teams at GC.

Tuggle, who enjoys golf in his spare time, and his wife Susan have two children: Jimmy and Lauren Childrey. Lauren resides in the Gate City with her husband, Ryan.