Dustin Odum enters his sixth season as an assistant coach for the Lady Blues. Prior to joinging the Lady Blues, Odum served one season as the head girls coach Wamego High School in 2001-02.
While on the bench at Washburn, the Lady Blues have gone 152-16 in the last five seasons. At Washburn, Odum has helped the Lady Blues to four MIAA regular season championships, four MIAA tournament championships and the 2005 NCAA national championship. The Lady Blues have had four All-Americans with Odum on the Washburn bench.
Odum was elevated to the top assistant post in June of 2003 and is in charge of scheduling, conditioning and video operations. He also handles summer camps and leagues and assists with recruiting and on-court coaching for the Lady Blues
Before coaching at Wamego, Odum was a graduate assistant at Emporia State University for two seasons, where helped Emporia State to two MIAA titles and an Elite Eight. He coached two Kodak All-Americans for the Hornets.
He was also an assistant coach at Northern Heights in Allen, Kan., where he helped guide the Wildcats to a third place finish at the 1999 3A state championship at Hutchinson. He coached at Northern Heights for three seasons.
He got his first experience in coaching at Nemaha Valley High School, where he served as head freshman coach for one season in 1995-96.
Odum earned a bachelor’s of science in education at Emporia State in 1999. He is a native of Seneca, Kan., where he graduated from Nemaha Valley High in 1994.
