|
One of the nation's most experienced assistant coaches, Joe Holladay is in his sixth season as an assistant coach with the Tar Heels and his 16th as a member of Roy Williams' coaching staff. He has a combined record of 454-104 (.814) on the bench with Williams. Holladay's duties include recruiting, scouting and day-to-day basketball operations and he oversees the team's academic progress. He works closely with the Tar Heel big men, including three-time first-team All-America and 2008 National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough. Carolina won the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament after also capturing the conference regular season title. It was the ninth time Holladay's teams have finished first in the conference race. The Tar Heels reached the 2008 NCAA Final Four, marking Holladay's fourth Final Four appearance in the last seven years. Carolina also won the 2007 ACC Tournament after tying for the regular season title. The Tar Heels won the 2004-05 ACC regular-season title and the NCAA championship. The Tar Heels were No. 1 in the nation in scoring, assists and scoring margin, fifth in field goal percentage and eighth in rebounding. Holladay came to Carolina prior to the 2003-04 season and helped the Tar Heels return to the NCAA Tournament. Including former Tar Heels Brandan Wright, Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants, 14 of Holladay's players have been selected in the first round of the NBA Draft. Four of his student-athletes earned first-team academic All-America honors and he has coached 26 first-team academic all-conference honorees in the last 13 years. Holladay joined Williams at the University of Kansas prior to the 1993-94 season after 23 stellar years as a high school coach, teacher and administrator. The Jayhawks posted a cumulative record of 312-71 (.815) during his tenure. Kansas played in the 2002 and 2003 NCAA Final Fours, including the 2003 national championship game. Kansas finished the year ranked in the Top 10 in the Associated Press poll six times, including No. 1 in 1997 and No. 2 in 1998 and 2002. A 1969 University of Oklahoma graduate with a degree in history, Holladay was a standout guard for the Sooners from 1966-69. As a senior, he served as team captain. Holladay earned a master's degree in counseling in 1975 from East Central State University in Oklahoma. He went to Kansas after working 13 years as head coach and eight years as athletics director at Jenks (Okla.) High School. Holladay previously served as a prep coach in the Oklahoma towns of Norman, Bart-lesville, Tulsa, and Lindsay. In 1998, Holladay was inducted into the Oklahoma High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and in 2002, he was inducted into the inaugural 20-member group of the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. One of his top players at Jenks High School, Steve Hale, played at North Carolina from 1982-86 under then-assistant coach Roy Williams. Holladay was an outstanding prep baseball player. He was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the Major League Baseball Draft. Holladay and his wife, Roi, a former schoolteacher, have a daughter, Heather, who is in television commercial production. Their son, Mathew, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School, works for Bank of America. |
|||||||||||||
 |
