Jay Welborn is in his fifth season as the Assistant Coach for the Belhaven University Men’s Basketball program.
Prior to his arrival at Belhaven, Welborn was the associate head coach at NCAA DII Tusculum College (now University) during the 2016-17 season. While there, he set over twenty school records including consecutive games with a three pointer made by a single player, broke the school and conference record for made threes in a game going 23/33 from the arc in a 113-78 win vs. Mars Hill, assists per game, field goal percentage, etc. Welborn went 1-0 as acting head coach beating Brevard 85-70 on January 25, 2017. He went 8-3 in his scouts with all three losses coming to perennial national title contender Lincoln Memorial who was ranked in the top 3 each time we played them. Welborn installed a matchup zone defense that dropped our points allowed per game by 10 points per game mid-season. Welborn recruited all freshmen team member in Dashaunte Smith, statistical SAC free throw percentage champion Ronnie Baylark (85.1%), and coached honorable mention all SAC and statistical SAC assist champion Kendall Patterson.
Welborn spent the 2012-2016 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 with a win in the WNIT over Ole Miss.
Welborn also spent the 2005-06 season as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Division III 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.
