| Title: | Assistant Coach |
Pat Fuscaldo is a welcome addition to the Bear Cub coaching staff this season after previously holding the position of head coach of the Sonoma State University men’s basketball team for 26 years until 2020. Coach Pat assisted Monica Mertle the past two years with the Cardinal Newman Girls’ Basketball program.
In 2007-08, Fuscaldo became the winningest basketball coach in Sonoma State history. In 2005-06, he led the Seawolves to their first ever California Collegiate Athletic Association championship with a 16-4 conference record. For his efforts, Fuscaldo was voted the CCAA Coach of the Year by his peers. The squad also advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the previous nine years.
Prior to joining the staff at Notre Dame, Fuscaldo was an assistant coach at Skyline College, serving two stints, 1985-86 and then 1987-91. While there, Skyline reached the California State Final Eight in 1990 and 1991, won Coast Conference championships in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and posted a cumulative record of 105-23.
Fuscaldo was an assistant coach at the University of San Francisco in 1986-87, and he has also coached at San Jose State and San Francisco State, where he received his Master’s Degree in Physical Education/Sports Psychology-Administration. He received his B.A. in Physical Education from San Francisco State in 1983.
As a player, Fuscaldo was a two-year performer for Eastern Connecticut State College in Willimantic, Connecticut. He attended St. Thomas Moore Preparatory School in Colchester and Greenwich High School in Greenwich.
Fuscaldo is married to former Stanford All-American and ABL and WNBA player Molly Goodenbour, now the head women’s basketball coach at the University of San Francisco.