Tusculum College has named Jay Welborn assistant men’s basketball coach, head coach Michael Jones has announced.
Welborn spent the past four seasons as the head coach at Snead State Community College in Boaz, Alabama, where his Parsons teams annually played competitive non-conference schedules while competing as a member of the Alabama Community College Conference. While at Snead State, Welborn’s teams finished in the top three in the ACCC each year in defensive field-goal percentage, field-goal percentage, three-pointers made and three-pointers per game. His teams also excelled in the classroom, with an 80 percent retention rate from freshman to sophomore year.
Prior to his tenure at Snead State, Welborn was on the basketball staff at Division I Samford University in Birmingham from 2006 to 2012. While at Samford, Welborn was a volunteer men’s assistant coach during the 2006-07 season before serving for five years as the director of men’s and women’s basketball operations. In that role, Welborn was responsible for coordinating team travel, handling film exchange, schedule campus visits and assist in scouting and preparation. Welborn was also a graduate men’s assistant coach and head manager at Samford from 1998 to 2005, a tenure that included two appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
Welborn also spent the 2005-06 season as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Division II Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama during a season that saw the Hawks compile a 20-7 record and win the Great South AtlantIc Conference regular season and tournament championships. He also served as head junior varsity coach and was responsible for all areas of recruitment, including two first-team All-Freshman team members.
A native of Arab, Alabama, Welborn earned a bachelor of arts degree in religion from Samford in 2001 and was granted a Master of Theological Studies degree from the Beeson Divinity School at Samford in December, 2004.
Tusculum finished 14-15 overall during the 2015-16 season and in eighth place in the South Atlantic Conference with a 9-13 league record. The Pioneers recorded two victories over opponents ranked in the top 15 and ranked fifth in the SAC in scoring average at 84.7 points per game.
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