Alma Mater: Covenant College (Ga.) '11, Texas A&M '13
Hired Date: April 2022 (Special Assistant)
Elevated Date: June 2025 (Assistant Coach)
Logan Dahms enters his fourth season overall and first as an Assistant Coach at Chattanooga ahead of the 2025-26 season. Dahms previously served as a Special Assistant under head coach Dan Earl during his first three seasons at UTC and has helped the team compile a 68-38 (.642) overall record and a 34-20 (.629) mark in Southern Conference play over that span
Dahms brings vast experience in all levels of basketball. Within the Mocs program Dahms is responsible for scouting, recruiting, player development, scheduling, external relations, and overseeing the program’s Analytics & Strategy department, among other tasks.
Dahms helped lead Chattanooga through a historic 2024-25 season in which the team finished 29-9 overall (15-3 SoCon) and claimed both the SoCon regular season title and the 2025 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship. The Mocs became the first SoCon member to ever win an NCAA Division I men's basketball national title following the legendary five-game run through the NIT.
Chattanooga matched a program record in wins (29) for the 2024-25 season, marking just the second time reaching the 29-win mark in the program's lengthy history. UTC earned 12 true road wins during the season, second most across all of NCAA DI, while winning a program record 10-straight true road games to end the year.
During the 2022-23 season the Mocs reached the SoCon Tournament Championship Game and set a number of national marks with their “See, Share, and Shoot” style-of-play, including: No. 1 in the nation in made 3PT FG per game, an NCAA record for most players to make a 3PT FG in the same game (10), and No. 5 in the nation in assist percentage. To drive their high-powered offense the Mocs utilized one of the most robust basketball analytics regimes in the country. In Year 1, Dahms led a team of student developers to design and build three cutting-edge data tools: MocSpectrum, a player-tracking data software; MocReports, an automated scouting report generator; and MocPom, an online dashboard for practice-derived “rate” stats.
Dahms first came to the Scenic City following a three-year stint in Lexington, Virginia, with Southern Conference foe VMI, during coach Earl's tenure. While at VMI from 2019-2022, Dahms helped the Keydets program accomplish many record feats which included the team attaining its highest NET ranking and KenPom ranking in school history, achieving back-to-back .500 or better seasons for just the second time since 1978 and producing a top-25 scoring offense in consecutive seasons. Additional accomplishments at VMI include:
- Wins over all 9 teams in the SoCon in the same season for the first time in school history
- Finishing among the top three in NCAA Division I in made threes all three years including No. 1 in the nation in 2021-22
- Making the first postseason appearance since 2014 (CBI in 2021-22)
- Four All-SoCon selections in 2022 including UTC graduate transfer Jake Stephens (First Team)
Dahms specialized in recruiting, scouting, player development (wings), academic liaison, analytics, strength & conditioning, and social media/creative content within the VMI program. As a special situations coach, Dahms helped the Keydets finish No. 1 in the country in out-of-bounds offense in 2021, per Synergy Sports. Off the court, Dahms organized year-long personal development series with sessions on life skills topics such as leadership, finance, time management, and mindfulness. He also served for two months as interim strength & conditioning coach.
During the 2021 season, VMI tied its best home winning percentage in 43 years after finishing 11-1 (.917%) and also posted its best overall winning percentage (13-12, .520%) as a member of the Southern Conference since 1996. The Keydets earned wins over the top-placed team in the SoCon standings three times during the season as the offense finished 23rd in NCAA Division I in scoring while producing three All-SoCon selections.
Before assisting at VMI, Dahms spent two seasons at Little Rock from 2017-19 and was an instrumental member of the Trojan basketball staff, handling a multitude of responsibilities. During his time in Little Rock, Dahms handled Little Rock’s opponent scheduling, all aspects of the team budget and travel, serving as the head of Little Rock's basketball statistics and analytics, assisted with opponent scouting, and pioneered a number of basketball technology initiatives. During Dahms’ tenure, the Trojans became the first basketball program in the world to use Computer Vision for shot-tracking.
Additionally, Dahms' responsibilities included designing gear and handling equipment orders, player nutrition, housing, ticket requests, overseeing the recruiting database and scheduling official and unofficial visits, as well as serving as an interim recruiter on multiple occasions. Dahms also served as the director of the Little Rock Basketball Camps, coordinating the planning, executing and staffing of the camps that drew a record-setting 400 campers during the summer of 2018.
Dahms spent the 2016-17 season with the NBA's Golden State Warriors organization, working with both the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA’s G-League as well as the NBA champion Golden State Warriors as a video and analytics assistant. In his role, Dahms helped produce custom analytical reports to aid coaches’ evaluations and assessments of team performance.
Prior to his time with the Warriors organization, Dahms spent one season as the recruiting and operations intern at Stanford in 2015-16, assisting the Cardinal in a litany of basketball operations, scouting, and statistical aspects as well as coordinating recruiting efforts for the Pac-12 institution. He helped Stanford become the first basketball program to implement STRIVR virtual reality training for player development as well as the Catapult system, a next-generation biometric data capture system that helped coaches understand player workload and optimize practice planning.
Prior to 2015, Dahms played professionally for two seasons, playing for Escoba Ezcazu in Ezcazu, Costa Rica in 2014-15 after spending the 2013-14 season with Donbaschet USM in Chisinau, Moldova. Dahms helped lead Donbaschet USM to a 23-2 record and the championship of the FBRM National League in 2014.
A native of Bahama, North Carolina, Dahms played two seasons for Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, earning his bachelors degree in Biology in 2011 before attaining his master’s degree in Sports Physiology from Texas A&M in 2013. Dahms also served as a graduate assistant for the Aggies from 2011-13, spending one season in the Big 12 conference and another in the SEC.
Dahms also spent time involved in strength and conditioning at Texas A&M, Duke, and with the Admirals Basketball Academy in Chisinau, Moldova, earning his CSCCa-SCCC certification in 2013.
Updated July 2025
Dahms married the former Ms. Emily Stewart in 2019 and they have two daughters, Winslet and Isla.
