Faulkner University

Tanielu Mose is entering the first season of his second stint as a full-time assistant for the volleyball program. He first served as assistant coach in 2023 after first working for head coach Tori Renda as a student assistant in 2012, his last year of college. 

A former linebacker for Faulkner football and a 2012 graduate of the university, Mose was a two-sport athlete growing up in Oakland, Calif. He transferred from Laney College to Faulkner for his last two years of college football and played for the Eagles from 2010-11. After becoming a student assistant, he began coaching club volleyball later that year and has essentially been doing so ever since, as he has a total of 13 years of coaching experience at the college, high school and club levels in addition to developing and working with youth players.  

While at Faulkner, he met his future wife, the former Wendy Riley, a right side hitter from Prattville, Ala., who played for the Lady Eagles from 2009-10. In 2020, the two of them founded Mana Toa Volleyball, a travel club in Prattville, meeting a need in the community in the same way that Renda's Capital City Juniors has in Montgomery. At the high school level, he coached LAMP High School in Montgomery to a state tournament appearance in 2021 two years prior to his first full-time position on Renda's staff. 

Wendy works as a Division Manager for Waffle House, Inc. The couple married in 2017 and they have two kids, a son named Tigi and a daughter named Tai.