Randy Bolden begins his fourth season as the men’s basketball head coach at Jones College.
Bolden has guided the Bobcats to a combined 53-25 record (28-14 south) in his first three seasons, including back-to-back 20-win seasons, a south division championship and conference runner-up finish in 2018-19. JC was NJCAA Region 23 runner-up last season to unbeaten Pearl River.
In three short years, 17 players have signed to play at the four-year level, including Georgetown, Louisiana and Southern Mississippi.
Prior to Jones, Bolden was an assistant coach at Hinds Community College for one season and was a very successful head coach at Meridian High School from 2007-16.
While at Meridian, Bolden guided the Wildcats to a combined 227-55 record, 2011 MHSAA 6A State Championship (29-2 overall) and back-to-back south state crowns in 2010 and 2011. He also served as the North/South All-Star Game head coach during the record 2011 season.
He served as head coach at Pearl High School from 2004-07 and was an assistant coach at Jackson Provine High School from 2002-04.
Bolden played collegiately at Texas Southern from 1994-98, where he was named the Southwest Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year and two-time SWAC Player of the Year as a junior and senior. He finished in the Top 10 in scoring nationally twice and helped Texas Southern to the NCAA Tournament in 1995 where the Tigers came close to upsetting defending national champion Arkansas, dropping a 79-78 decision.
After graduating from Texas Southern in 2002 with a bachelor of science in kinesiology, Bolden played professional basketball from 1998-2002 in Iceland, Brazil and Canada before getting into the coaching profession.
He received his masters of science in health, physical education and recreation in 2006 from Jackson State University.
Bolden has a son, Rashad, a senior and Clarion-Ledger Dandy Dozen selection at St. Andrew's Episcopal School.
