high_school height_ft birth_place nationality article_title position height_in birth_date college name
forest hill -lrb- jackson , mississippi -rrb- 6 jackson , mississippi american randy bolden
 point guard 2 1976 texas southern -lrb- 1994 -- 1998 -rrb- randy bolden
randy bolden

randy bolden -lrb- born -rrb- is an american former professional basketball player who is better known for his collegiate career at texas southern university between 1994 -- 95 and 1997 -- 98 .
a point guard , bolden was twice named the southwestern athletic conference -lrb- swac -rrb- player of the year , first as a junior and again as a senior .
he was born in jackson , mississippi and attended forest hill high school prior to enrolling at texas southern .
today he is the head boys ' basketball coach at meridian high school in meridian , mississippi .
in bolden 's four years at texas southern , he scored approximately 2,000 points and finished in the national top 10 in scoring on two occasions .
he was the swac freshman of the year in 1994 -- 95 , and during the 1995 ncaa tournament he helped the 15th-seeded tigers nearly upset 2nd-seeded arkansas , the defending national champions -lrb- arkansas won , 79 -- 78 -rrb- .
for his first two seasons , bolden was a teammate of kevin granger , the national scoring leader in 1995 -- 96 .
for his final two years he earned all-swac honors and was twice named the conference player of the year .
after his collegiate career ended , bolden played professionally for teams in iceland -lrb- grindavík -rrb- , brazil -lrb- londrina -rrb- , and canada -lrb- saskatchewan hawks -rrb- .
