Tuma joined the Panthers after serving as a volunteer assistant coach with Ohio State for the 2018 season. Before his time in Columbus, Tuma was a face-off coordinator/assistant defensive coordinator for two seasons at Princeton.

Tuma worked with the Buckeye face-off and goalies and both units saw the benefits. In the face-off X, Tuma mentored Justin Iancio, who was the No. 1 freshman in face-off win percentage (61.3) and Big Ten Freshman of the Year. In net, tuma guided Josh Kirson, who as a redshirt freshman had a 7.00 GAA in the final six games of the year and wins over Top-20 opponents Rutgers and Michigan, as well as No. 1 Maryland.

At Princeton, Tuma worked with the face-off men, defense and ran the box on game days and guided the Tigers to a face-off win increase from 46 percent in 2016 to 50 percent in 2017. In addition, he mentored Zach Currier to a 13 percent increase in face-off percentage and Currier went on to being top-6 picks in both the MLL and NLL drafts.

In total, Tuma coached seven All-Ivy League players on the 2016 Princeton squad, including goalie Tyler Blaisdell and defenseman Bear Goldstein. He also mentored two freshman defenders to All-America honors by College Crosse and helped lead the Tigers' man-down defense to a No. 9 rank nationally (75 percent).

Tuma came to Princeton from his alma mater, Roanoke College, where he coached 11 USILA All-Americans, 21 all-conference honorees and 29 conference all-academic selections.

Tuma was a three-time USILA All-American and was named to the Tewaraaton Trophy Watch List as a Division III player in 2011. He was the 2011 ODAC Player of the Year, was a three-time all-conference honoree and holds the Roanoke records for ground balls in a game and career and won 61.7 of face-offs.

Tuma graduated cum laude from Roanoke in 2011 with a bachelor's in business administration with a minor in economics. He was a USILA Scholar All-American and the 2011 ODAC Scholar Athlete of the Year. He went on to earn a master's in business management from Durham University, where he graduated with merit. He also played lacrosse in England before starting coaching career as the defensive coordinator at Randolph-Macon in 2013.