Kelley Lee joined the Eastern New Mexico University football coaching staff in 2012 after a stint at Valencia High School, where he served as the athletic coordinator and head football coach. Since coming to ENMU he has served as the offensive coordinator and helped ENMU achieve the No. 1 rated rushing offense in the Lone Star Conference with 345 yards per game in 2015. While at ENMU, the team has seen three offensive players named All-Americans under Lee's guidance and made their first Division II bowl appearence ever, appearing in the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl in 2015.
In his Ground Strike Offense, Lee has tutored two running backs that have set the single-season record for rushing yards in a season with E'lon Spight and Kamal Cass, respecitively. Most recently Cass ran for a league best 1,514 yards in 2015. Cass also led the league in rushing touchdowns, recording 22 scores on the season.
Lee took over a program at Valencia that was 1-9 and quickly turned them into a contender going 26-9 and reached the state playoffs all three years. In 2011, Kelley was named the Metro Coach of the Year in 2011 when VHS posted an 11-1 record and led the state is scoring averaging 50.5 points per game.
Lee also served at the offensive coordinator/assistant head coach at Midland College in 2008 where the offense ranked first in the NAIA in red zone efficiency and in the Top ten in rushing offense and fourth-down conversions.
Coach Lee has previously worked with Josh Lynn on two occasions; at New Mexico Military Institute and at ENMU. In 2006 and 2007 Lee was the offensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator at NMMI where they finished second in the nation in rushing offense both years. In 2006 Lee directed an offense at NMMI that finished fourth in the Nation in total offense. In 2002 and 2003 Coach Lee was a graduate assistant for the Greyhounds were he coached running backs and quarterbacks respectively.
Lee earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 2000 from Western New Mexico University where he played quarterback for the Mustangs. Lee is a graduate of Hot Springs High School in New Mexico. A three-sport athlete while at Hot Springs, Lee played in four state championships in football, basketball and won state track titles in the discus and shot put. Kelley’s wife, Melissa, is a former track and field athlete at ENMU. They have two children Kingston and Croix Lee's father is in the National High School Hall of Fame and his sister (Tasha Fischer) is an assistant athletic director for compliance at Florida State.