Robert John Boldon (born May 1, 1975) is an American women's basketball coach and former basketball player. He is the current head

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coach at

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. He previously held the same position at

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, Lambuth, and Arkansas-Monticello.

Playing career

Boldon started at point guard for four years and led Walsh to the NAIA Final Four in 1995–96. As a freshman, Boldon averaged 8.2 points and accumulated 163 assists. Over the next three years, Boldon was named First Team All-Mid-Ohio Conference each season, accumulating 204 assists and an average of 12.7 points as a sophomore, 222 assists and an average of 14.5 points as a junior, and 186 assists and an average of 14.3 points as a senior. During his junior season, Boldon led his team to the Mid-Ohio Conference championship and was named the MOC Player of the Year, first team NAIA All-American, and Mr. Hustle at the NAIA National Tournament. He was named NAIA Second Team All-American following his senior season. He is still Walsh's career assist leader with 775 and is fourth in career points with 1,694. In 2008, he was inducted into the Walsh Athletics Wall of Fame.

Education and personal life

Boldon, a native of

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, graduated from

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in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. He earned his master's degree in liberal studies from Indiana in 2003. Boldon is married and has four sons.

Coaching career

He began his head coaching career at

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in the 2004–05 season and also served as the head coach of the women's basketball team at

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in 2008–09. Boldon also served as an assistant coach at

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, Wilmington, IPFW, Gannon, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi,

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, and

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Youngstown State

Boldon led

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to its biggest win increase ever under a first-year head coach in the 2010–11 campaign. Overall, the Penguins went 6–24 for the campaign for a six-win improvement from the previous year.Bob Bolden – Profile
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Ohio

He was announced as Ohio's head coach on March 28, 2013. He won

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championships during his

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and 3rd seasons at Ohio. They won the 2015 MAC tournament and played in the NCAA tournament where they lost to

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. He was named 2015 MAC Coach of the year. During the 2018–19 season his team won a school record 30 games and he became the leader in coaching wins in program history. Ohio played in the WNIT in

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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, and

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Head coaching record

* MAC tournament had to stop due to COVID-19 pandemic. ** Boldon missed one conference game due to a positive COVID-19 test. The team lost the game and the loss doesn’t count towards his record. Source:

References

External links

Ohio Bobcats coaching bio
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