Kelvin Bolden

Kelvin Bolden joined the LSU Football staff in July 2025 as Sr. Associate Athletics Director/Assistant General Manager after working for three seasons at Ole Miss as Coordinator of Recruiting Strategy.

Bolden reunites with LSU Sr. Associate AD Austin Thomas, with whom he worked for two seasons at Ole Miss.

Prior to his tenure at Ole Miss, Bolden worked at UCF as the program’s wide receiver assistant coach and Director of Recruiting Relations. He was the Assistant Director of Player Personnel at Florida in 2021 following two years at Arkansas as a graduate assistant.

A native of Ocean Springs, Miss., Bolden played wide receiver at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and Southern Miss, where he graduated in 2011.

At Southern Miss, Bolden logged 104 career catches for 1,393 yards and 13 touchdowns. He was inducted in 2020 into the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Athletics Hall of Fame and in 2023 into the Ocean Springs Sports Hall of Fame.

Bolden is the son of Kelvin Sr. and Michelle Bolden, and he is the father of Kameron Bolden.