Staff BiOgRaPhiES
JON BOLLiER
KELLy MathiS
Operations Coordinator ◊ 3rd Season
Recruiting Operations Coordinator ◊ 1st Season
Jon Bollier was named Operations Coordinator for Lady Bulldog Basketball in August 2010 after serving as a student manager for the team during the 2009-10 season. He is responsible for film exchange and breakdown, oversees the team’s student managers and assistants and coordinates game scheduling. Bollier brought a wealth of basketball experience with him to Athens. He served as a counselor for camps at Butler, Texas, Wake Forrest and here at Georgia. He also was the Camp Director for Mill Creek High School’s summer basketball camp in 2007-08. Bollier spent two summers coaching international basketball camps as well – in Brazil in 2005 and in Macedonia in 2007. A native of Leo, Ind., Bollier moved to Dacula, Ga., the summer before his senior year of high school and started on the football and basketball teams at Mill Creek in the school’s first year of existence. Bollier played one season of basketball at Gardner-Webb University and Covenant College before receiving his bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Piedmont College’s Athens campus in 2009.
Kelly Mathis joined the Georgia staff as coordinator of recruiting operations 2012. From 2011-12, she served as recruiting coordinator at Florida State and also was camp director for Seminole Girls’ Basketball Camps. Mathis was an assistant basketball coach at Washington and Lee University from 201011. In addition to coaching post players and defensive fundamentals, Mathis coordinated recruiting, team travel and film exchange and breakdown. From 2009-10, Mathis was business manager for Next Level Training in Knoxville, Tenn. She gained additional experience working basketball camps for the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, Francis Marion, Davidson and Maryville High School. Mathis played at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N.C. She helped the Lady Falcons to a 26-5 finish and the Conference Carolinas title as a sophomore, the same season she set the school single-game field goal percentage against Belmont Abbey by connecting on 9-of-10 shots from the floor. A native of Maryville, Tenn., Mathis earned her bachelor’s degree in sports management from Pfeiffer in 2009.
KathERiNE MaRiSELa gRahaM ROdRiguEz Graduate Assistant Manager ◊ 1st Season
Student Assistant Coach ◊ 1st Season
Katherine Graham is in her first season as a graduate assistant manager at Georgia. Graham was a four-year letter winner at LSU, starting every game of her senior and junior season. She is one of only two players in LSU history to record a triple-double and the only player to do it in SEC play. Graham achieved this on Feb. 7, 2010, against Ole Miss. She was the 25th player in Tiger history to finish with 500 career rebounds (513), while also finishing her career with 295 assists and 713 points. Named to the SEC Coaches All-Defensive Team in her senior season, Graham proved effective offensively as well, finishing with a team high 102 assists on the year. She was also the Tigers’ third leading scorer at 8.2 points per game. She was also selected to the SEC Community Service Team. At Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Ala., Graham was coached by new Lady Bulldogs assistant coach Robert Mosely. In her time at Ramsay, the team went 126-13 including four straight Class 5A state titles. She also earned Class 5A all-state honors as a junior and senior.
Marisela Rodriguez is serving as a student assistant coach with the Lady Bulldogs this season after a knee injury that prematurely ended her playing career. Rodriguez signed with Georgia in April 2011 after a standout career at Garden City Community College in her hometown of Garden City, Kans. Rodriguez was a two-time All-Jayhawk Conference Western Division selection for Garden City. She earned first-team honors as a sophomore after being a second-team pick as a freshman. Rodriguez also was tabbed the Kansas Jayhawk Conference’s Western Division Freshman of the Year in 2010. In 2009-10, Rodriguez produced team-best averages of 13.1 points, 9.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game and also contected on a team-high 55.6 percent of her shots from the floor. Rodriguez then averaged 11.2 ppg and 7.8 rpg as a sophomore while notching nine double-doubles. Rogriguez was named third-team All-State for Class 6A as a senior at Garden City High when she averaged 12.3 ppg, 9.1 rpg and 2.5 bpg while leading GCHS to its first state tournament appearance in 21 years.
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