Alma Mater: Birmingham Southern '15
Hired Date: April 2022 (Assistant Coach)
Elevated Date: June 2025 (Associate Head Coach)
Elevated to an Associate Head Coach title in June 2025, Ander Galfsky enters his fourth season at Chattanooga ahead of the 2025-26 season after serving the previous three seasons as an assistant at UTC. Galfsky was previously an assistant and associate head coach at Southern Conference member VMI for four seasons under current Mocs head coach Dan Earl.
Galsky helped lead Chattanooga to a 29-9 overall record (15-3 SoCon), a Southern Conference regular season title, and a National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship during the team's historic 2024-25 campaign. The Mocs matched a program record for wins in a single season (29) while tying for the second-most regular season SoCon wins (15) in a season and most since 2015-16. Â
The 2024-25 Chattanooga squad finished the season winning 17 of its final 18 games including a program-record, 10-straight true road games. The 12 true road wins during the season matched a program record while also improving the team's record to 47-29 (.644) in true road games since 2020, the most among all NCAA Division I programs over that span.
Galfsky was named interim head coach of the VMI basketball program on March 31, 2022 following Earl's departure to the Scenic City before accepting his new role at UTC.
During his time with the Keydets, Galfsky helped lead the team to its first winning season since 2013-14 behind a 13-12 (11-1 at home) mark in the 2020-21 season. That team also made a Southern Conference semifinal appearance for the first time since 2003.
Galfsky helped oversee the transformation of Southern Conference star center Jake Stephens, who finished the 2021-22 season averaging 19.6 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game while shooting a blistering 49.0% from three. VMI ranked first and second, respectively, in all of NCAA Division I basketball in three-point shot attempts over the past two seasons.
Before arriving at VMI, Galfsky served as Director of Basketball Operations at Campbell under head coach Kevin McGeehan and played a vital role in leading the Camels to three-consecutive postseason appearances. Campbell captured the Big South regular season title in 2019 and competed in the NIT for the first time in program history which followed a semifinal appearance in the CBI in 2018 and a quarterfinal appearance in the 2017 CIT.
At Campbell, Galfsky oversaw responsibilities that included internal scheduling, liaison to support staffs, directing team managers, equipment ordering and ticket requests, in addition to serving as Director of Campbell Basketball Camps. In his first season, Galfsky handled travel logistics, film exchange, video analysis of games and practices while also playing a support role in camps, alumni events and on-campus visits.
Prior to Campbell, Galfsky served as an athletics department graduate assistant during the 2015-16 academic term at Auburn while working in performance analysis software programs. He also served as game/event manager for gymnastics and women’s tennis while assisting in game operations for football, volleyball, men’s tennis, and softball.
During his collegiate playing career at Birmingham-Southern, Galfsky played on a SCAC regular season championship team that earned an NCAA Division III national tournament berth.
His coaching experience includes serving as 15U and 16U assistant coach for the Nike/Adidas Southeast Elite AAU team in Birmingham and working in camps conducted by Birmingham-Southern, Lausanne Collegiate, the University of Mississippi and the Memphis Grizzlies.
A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Galfsky was an all-state performer at Lausanne Collegiate.
Galfsky graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a B.A. in history in 2015. He and his wife, Mary Katherine, were married in the summer of 2017.
Updated July 2025Â
