A 2017 Western Carolina graduate, Adam Bullard joined the Catamount men’s basketball coaching staff under head coach Tim Craft in March 2024. Bullard spent seven seasons progressing on the staff with Craft at Gardner-Webb.
In his debut season in Cullowhee for the 2024-25 season, he helped guide the senior Bernard Pelote to eclipse 1,000 career points as the senior finished sixth in league play averaging 16.3 points per game to pace the Catamounts. Pelote also finished second in the league with 227 total rebounds and 181 defensive rebounds for WCU. He finished third in league play with 133 total boards while tallying a team-high six double-doubles, including five against SoCon opponents. Redshirt sophomore Marcus Kell had a breakout season with a pair of SoCon Player of the Week awards averaging 14.7 points per game in SoCon play while eclipsing double figures 16 times, including 12 straight to close the season. Classmate Cord Stansberry also set the school-record for free throw percentage on the year at 91.3 (min. 70 makes). As a team, WCU led the conference in defensive rebounds per game (28.1) and was second in total rebounds per game (38.4).
Bullard began his coaching career as a graduate assistant under Craft at Gardner-Webb, spending two seasons in the role before being tabbed as the programs Director of Basketball Operations following the Runnin’ Bulldogs first-ever NCAA tournament appearance in 2018-19. He held the operations role for two additional seasons before again earning a promotion on Craft’s staff as the Director of Scouting and Player Development.
Bullard spent the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach at Gardner-Webb, garnering his third promotion during his time at Gardner-Webb. He was also the head coach of the 2018-19 reserve basketball team which played its inaugural season against other collegiate junior varsity programs around the region.
While an undergraduate at WCU, Bullard was a student assistant with Catamount men’s basketball. He received his start in coaching at the high school ranks as he was the head boys basketball coach at the Blue Ridge Early College in Cashiers, N.C., from 2015-17.
Originally from Robbins, N.C., Bullard graduated from Western Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in sport management in 2017 before earning his Master’s degree in sports education at Gardner-Webb in 2019.
Bullard is married to the former Jasmine Duncan of Waynesville, and the couple has a son, Redick.
