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Joe Holladay is in his fifth year as an assistant coach with the Tar Heels and his 15th as a member of Roy Williams' coaching staff. He has a combined record of 418-101 (.805) on the bench with Williams. Carolina won the 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament after also capturing a share of the conference regular season title. It was the eighth time Holladay's teams have finished first in the conference race. In 2005-06, the Tar Heels posted a pair of Top-10 road wins at Duke and Kentucky and finished second in the ACC, despite having the most inexperienced team in school history. The surprise success earned Williams ACC and national coaching honors. The Tar Heels won the 2004-05 ACC regular-season title and the NCAA championship, marking the third time in four years Holladay was a member of a Final Four squad. 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. UNC improved its scoring production by 10 points from the previous season and knocked off No. 1 ranked and eventual national champion Connecticut. Holladay's responsibilities include recruiting, scouting and dayto- day basketball operations. He oversees the academic progress of the student-athletes. Byron Sanders and Melvin Scott have earned ACC All-Academic honors. Including Tar Heels Brandan Wright, Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants, 13 of Holladay's players have been selected in the first round of the NBA Draft. Four of his student-athletes earned firstteam academic All-America honors and he has coached 26 first-team academic all-conference honorees in the last 12 years. Holladay joined Williams at the University of Kansas prior to the 1993-94 season after 23 highly successful years as a high school coach, teacher and administrator. The Jayhawks posted a cumulative record of 312-71 (.815), and won six conference regular-season championships and three Big 12 Tournament titles during his tenure. Kansas played in the 2002 and 2003 NCAA Final Fours, including the 2003 national championship game. At Kansas, Holladay coached National Players of the Year Drew Gooden and Nick Collison and first-team All-Americas Jacque Vaughn, Raef La- Frentz, Paul Pierce and Kirk Hinrich. 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 Holladay, is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy who also is a 2007 MBA graduate from UNC. |
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