He played several sports at Presbyterian, and was best known for football: he was team captain and won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy in 1934.

Bolick later coached several high schools in the area, as well as for one year the athletics at Erskine College.

[3] Bolick began attending Presbyterian College in 1931, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity,[4] after graduating from North Charleston.

[10][11] Bolick also placed third in voting for the Jacobs Blocking Trophy, given to the best blocker in the state and described as "probably the highest individual award a South Carolina football player may receive.

[18] During the 1933 football season, he became Presbyterian's main blocking back and did not see much action as a runner, attributed to added weight and the fact that they already had several good ball carriers.

[20] In football, during his senior year, Bolick remained in the blocking back/fullback position and became one of the best college players in the role.

His blocking on running plays, sharp and incisive, seldom failed to take out a man or two and some times three tacklers.

Coach Walter Johnson couldn't have built an iron fence for a better safeguard than Bolick shielded Perrin when the latter faded back to pass or punt against Wofford Saturday.

"[21] At the end of the season, Bolick was named the winner of the prestigious Jacobs Blocking Trophy by vote of the state's sportswriters and coaches.

[16][36] As a result, the football team compiled a disastrous 0–9 record,[37] after which Bolick resigned, although he finished coaching the remaining sports for the 1946–47 season.

[39] The following year, he began coaching at Ford High School in Laurens, South Carolina.