TUSCULUM COLLEGE

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. 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.  Read More.