East Texas A&M University Men's Golf

Jones is in his seventh season as a part-time assistant with the Texas A&M University-Commerce mens and womens golf team. In addition to his golf coaching responsibilities, he is also involved with the game operations for home A&M-Commerce football and basketball games.  Jones has received from A&M-Commerce his bachelors and masters degree as well as his administrators certificate. He worked in public education for 31 years and served as the boys and girls golf coach at Commerce HIgh School for several years prior to his retirement. After his retirement, he served as manager of Sand Hills Country Club for eight years.  He is married for the former Sarah Sheely and they have a son, Forrest and a daughter Sheely House.  Buddy Jones is in his seventh season as a part-time assistant with the Texas A&M University-Commerce mens and womens golf team.

Strickland was named the graduate assistant coach for A&M-Commerce Lion Golf on July 28, 2015 after a successful collegiate career at Cameron University, where she led the team in scoring average four seasons and earned All-LSC recognition four times. Strickland joins head coach Dr. Louie Bledsoe and assistant coach Buddy Jones for the 2015-16 season and will assist Bledsoe and Jones in their efforts to capture an LSC crown.  "We are very happy to have her joing the golf coaching staff, and she will be working with both the men's and women's teams" Bledsoe said. "She has just completed a successful DII career at Cameron, and her experience and overall knowledge of the game of golf will be valuable as she can relate to the them. She knows what it takes to be successful at this level of collegiate golf."  Strickland's prior coaching experience includes three years as a youth golf camp assistant at Leonard's Golf Links in Fort Worth, Texas where she instructed and managed more than 15 students every year and helped create practice and teaching stations. Strickland also learned quite a lot during her time at Cameron, where she was named LSC Golfer of the Week four times and maintained a 3.0 GPA through her collegiate career.

East Texas A&M University athletics announced in July 2024 that Brian Dolehide was elevated to Director of Golf, overseeing both the men’s and women’s golf programs.   Dolehide has served as the head men’s golf coach for the Lions since 2022 and led the women’s golf program on an interim basis in spring 2024 as the program had a second-place finish at the conference championships and two individuals in the top 10.   Under Dolehide’s leadership, the men’s golf program has recorded 20 top 10 team finishes, while the women's golf program has recorded back-to-back runner-up finishes at the Southland Conference championships.    Dolehide arrived to Commerce in August 2022 after a stint on coach Mike McGraw’s staff at Baylor, Dolehide was a standout at Florida Atlantic and a three-time state high school champion in Illinois.   He was a four-year member of the FAU men’s golf team, being a Conference USA Commissioner’s honor roll recipient. A graduate of Hinsdale High School, Dolehide won the Illinois 3A State Championship in 2012-14 and was the individual conference champion in 2013.   Following his playing career at FAU, Dolehide was a volunteer assistant with the Owls before moving north to Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, for one season as an associate head coach of the men’s and women’s golf programs at the Division III institution.   With Baylor, Dolehide was a volunteer assistant coach this past season working with players during practice, observing qualifying, and handling the day-to-day operations of the men’s program.   In his lone season in Waco, the Bears won a tournament for the second year in a row and were led by Johnny Keefer, who was minted as an All-American Big 12 Men’s Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year.   A native of Hinsdale, Illinois, Dolehide received bachelors of marketing from Florida Atlantic  and Master’s of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern in 2024. He now resides in Rockwall. His sister, Caroline, is a professional tennis player, being a six-time semifinalist in doubles at Grand Slams and is currently ranked No. 20 for doubles in the world.