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Chad Dollar is entering his fourth year on the
Georgia Southern coaching staff after being named to
the post by head coach Jeff Price on April 5, 2002.
Dollar works primarily with the guards and the small
forwards and also serves as the program’s recruiting
coordinator.
Dollar came to Georgia Southern from Eastern
Kentucky University, where he served as associate
head coach for the Colonels in 2001-02. His duties
at EKU included on-floor coaching and scouting
opponents as well as overseeing the academic
progress of the team. He also served as Eastern
Kentucky’s recruiting coordinator and worked at all
EKU summer camps. Dollar joined the Colonels in June
of 2000 and served one season as an assistant coach
for head coach Travis Ford before being promote to
associate head coach in 2001.
Prior to joining the EKU staff, Dollar spent two
seasons as an assistant coach at Western Carolina.
Dollar’s duties with the Catamounts included
scouting and monitoring the academic progress of
WCU’s players. He also served as the recruiting
coordinator, where he recruited 2000 Southern
Conference Freshman-of-the-Year and NBA Lottery Pick
Jarvis Hayes, and worked various Western Carolina
camps.
Dollar also spent one year as an assistant at
Southern Mississippi. Besides on campus recruiting
and the academic progress of the team, Dollar
oversaw the film exchange duties for the Eagles.
Dollar’s work with Southern Mississippi helped the
team advance to the 1997-98 NIT Tournament.
A native of Atlanta, Ga., Dollar got his start in
collegiate coaching at Gardner-Webb University,
where he worked from 1995 to 1997. While with
Bulldogs, Dollar acted as the recruiting coordinator
and oversaw all purchasing and budgeting of the
Gardner-Webb men’s basketball equipment.
Dollar has also spent two summers, 1997 and 2001,
serving as an assistant coach with Athletes in
Action. With the 1997 team, Dollar was a member of a
coaching staff that selected a team of athletes that
traveled to Macedonia and Croatia, playing various
foreign teams while also performing coaching
clinics. The 2001 team traveled to the Ivory Coast.
His duties included both selecting team members and
organizing the team training camp.
A 1995 graduate of Milligan College, Dollar played
his first three seasons at the University of South
Florida. Dollar played on NCAA and NIT tournament
teams with the Bulls before transferring to Milligan
for his final season. He led the Buffaloes to a NAIA
Division II national tournament in 1995 and was
named all conference.
Dollar played his high school basketball in Atlanta
at Douglass High School for his father, Don Dollar,
who was at one time the fifth all-time winningest
high school coach in the state’s history. While in
high school, Dollar was an all-city selection in
1989. A second-team All-State performer in 1990,
Dollar was a part of a DHS team that advanced to the
Georgia Final Four and was one of seven players to
sign with a NCAA Divsion I school after his junior
season.
Dollar’s brother, Cameron, is also a NCAA coach,
entering his fourth year at Washington University,
where he has served as the teams top assistant for
the past two seasons. |
