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Holland McCoy

Holland McCoy was hired by the Montreat College athletics department as the associate head men's and women's track & field coach in June of 2024. She enters her second season with the Cavaliers during the 2025-26 academic year.

YEAR-BY-YEAR HIGHLIGHTS

2025 (Men's Track & Field)
  • Ranked as high as No. 43 in the USTFCCCA NAIA Men's Indoor Track & Field Rating Index.
  • Set one indoor school record.
  • Finished runner-up out of 10 programs at the AAC Indoor Track & Field Championships (2nd; 105 points).
  • Qualified for two events at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships.
  • Finished tied for 43rd out of 66 scoring programs at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships (6 points).
  • Ranked as high as No. 30 in the USTFCCCA NAIA Men's Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index.
  • Set three outdoor school records.
  • Finished third out of 11 squads at the AAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships (123 points).
  • Qualified for three events at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
  • Finished tied for 62nd at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (2 points).
  • Appeared in the Jack Hazen Program of the Year standings for the fifth straight year (21st; 129.5 points).
  • Athlete achievements: 1 NAIA Indoor All-American, 1 NAIA Outdoor All-American, 2 AAC Indoor Champions, 1 AAC Outdoor Champion, 8 Indoor All-Conference performances, 8 Outdoor All-Conference performances, 1 AAC Outdoor Track & Field Newcomer of the Year, 1 AAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Week, 1 AAC Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week, 1 CSC Academic All-American Second Team® selection, 5 CSC Academic All-District® Team honorees, 1 AAC Colonel John Sullivan Male Student-Athlete of Character, 10 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes, 13 AAC All-Academic Team members, 2 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athletes.
2025 (Women's Track & Field)
  • Ranked as high as No. 3 in the USTFCCCA NAIA Women's Indoor Track & Field Rating Index, which is a program record.
  • Set 10 indoor school records.
  • Won the program's first AAC Indoor Track & Field Championship (1st; 197 points).
  • Set the AAC Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships record for the most points score (197) and the largest margin of victory (60 points).
  • Named AAC Indoor Track & Field Staff of the Year.
  • Qualified for six events at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships.
  • Achieved the program's top team placement at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships (10th; 27 points).
  • Ranked as high as No. 7 in the USTFCCCA NAIA Women's Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index, which is a program record.
  • Set or tied 14 outdoor school records.
  • Finished runner-up out of 13 teams at the AAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships (2nd; 137 points).
  • Qualified for five events at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
  • Achieved the program's best finish at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (8th; 26 points).
  • Student-athlete Heather Murphy was selected to represent Ireland at the European Athletics U23 Championships.
  • Achieved the program's best finish in the Fred Beile Program of the Year standings (4th; 23 points).
  • Program garnered USTFCCCA All-Academic Team status.
  • Athlete achievements: 8 NAIA Indoor All-Americans, 4 NAIA Outdoor All-Americans, 6 AAC Indoor Champions, 5 AAC Outdoor Champions, 16 Indoor All-Conference performances, 11 Outdoor All-Conference performances, 1 AAC Indoor Co-Track Athlete of the Year, 1 AAC Indoor Track & Field Newcomer of the Year, 1 AAC Outdoor Track & Field Newcomer of the Year, 1 USTFCCCA NAIA Women's National Athlete of the Week, 2 AAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Week, 1 AAC Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week, 2 AAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week, 1 AAC Colonel John Sullivan Female Student-Athlete of Character, 2 CSC Academic All-America® First Team selections, 5 CSC Academic All-District® Team honorees, 17 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes, 26 AAC All-Academic Team members, 10 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athletes.

PRIOR TO MONTREAT

McCoy came to Montreat following time spent at Olivet Nazarene University where she was an assistant coach. Since 2018, McCoy coached jumpers at ONU, growing the roster from 19 to 28 athletes and tallying a combination of seven NAIA All-American performances.

Prior to her stint with the Tigers, McCoy was a graduate assistant at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in Minnesota. During the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years, the Eagles amassed four individual conference champions and a trio of NCCAA All-Americans. For three months in 2015, McCoy served as a volunteer assistant track & field coach at Des Lacs/Burlington High School in Des Lacs, N.D.

In addition to coaching experience, McCoy holds jumping event specialist and strength and conditioning certifications through the USTFCCCA and a USATF Level I certification.

McCoy competed at Hannibal-LaGrange University before her coaching career. As a student-athlete from 2009 to 2013, she qualified for the national meet three different times, earned a pair of conference outstanding field athlete awards and played on the volleyball team.

McCoy received her recreation management degree from Hannibal-LaGrange in 2013 before graduating with a masters in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University of Irvine in 2018. She is currently working to complete an MBA with a concentration in corporate communications at Olivet Nazarene.