After serving as the interim head coach from February 2025 to June 2025, Florida Southern Athletics announced Brian Richey '09 as the head coach on June 5. Richey is a 2009 graduate of Florida Southern College and Lakeland, Fla. native.

The men's golf program has a rich history of 13 team titles, last in 2017, and 10 total individual national champions. Richey played for the Mocs for five seasons and was on staff for the 2010 national championship run.

In spring of 2025, en route to capturing the Sunshine State Conference title and advancing to the NCAA Quarterfinals, Florida Southern posted a 92-17-2 record in seven tournaments with four top-three place finishes. Richey helped guide the Moccasins to the first Sunshine State Conference title since 2010 when Florida Southern won by 13 strokes on April 13-15 at Rio Pinar Country Club in Orlando. The Mocs carded rounds of 286, 285, and 290 for a 54-hole event score of three-under 861.

Following the league's tournament, league coaches voted Brian Richey as the Coach of the Year where the Mocs had two First Team and two Second Team honorees (1^st - Swartz and Barile; 2^nd – Mistretta and Parlby), and Swartz being tabbed the league's Golfer of the Year.
 
Over five seasons as a member of the team under Doug Gordin, who led the Mocs to six national championships in 23 years at the helm, Richey played a key role in the final two seasons to propel the Moccasins. After a fifth-place finish at the 2008 Sunshine State Conference Championships and leading the Mocs to a win, Richey propelled to first place at the 2009 SSC tournament, falling in a sudden death playoff, and a fourth-place finish at the Super Regional to advance to the national championship as an individual. Richey went on to tie for 20^th with a 297 four-round score on the Loomis Trial Golf Club in Blaine, Wash. to close his career with PING Honorable Mention All-America honors in 2009.
 
Upon his departure from Florida Southern, as a player and assistant coach, Richey turned pro in January 2010 where he went on to play on the Korn Ferry Tour from 2015-2022 and made 105 starts. He earned 25 professional wins with 50 starts between the PGA Tour Latinoamerica, PGA TourCanada, and PGA Tour Americas, highlighted by his 2017 PGA Tour Latinoamerica win at the Roberto de Vicenzo Uruguay Open. Richey went wire-to-wire and won by five strokes (64-63-68-69, -16). He went on to finish third that season on the Order of Merit which he earned full status back for the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour.
 
A member at Lone Palm, Richey was set to be more involved this spring with the Mocs' program and will now transition to lead the team. Richey is a 2009 graduate with a Business Administration degree with a focus in Sport Management. His ties to Southern go back to his father being an alumnus of Florida Southern, the class of 1979 while his wife, Meghan, is a 2008 graduate. The two have two children, Hadley and Hudson.