Tom Holliday joined the NC State baseball coaching staff on July 7, 2006, as associate head coach. Holliday, who served as pitching coach at the University of Texas from 2004-06, brings 31 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level to the Wolfpack staff. He is widely respected throughout the sport.

Holliday began his coaching career at the University of Miami in January of 1976, then was an assistant coach at Arizona State University during the Sun Devils’ run to the 1977 national championship. He has been with winning programs ever since. He owns a 281-150 record as a head coach, and has a combined record of 1487-542 in 31 years as an assistant and head coach in the college ranks. In all, Holliday has coached with 14 teams that participated in the College World Series in Omaha, including two that won the national championship.

After one season at Arizona State, Holliday spent the next 26 years at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla., the first 19 as the Cowboys’ pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. He was the Cowboys’ head coach from 1997-2003. In Holliday’s 26 years in Stillwater, Oklahoma State made 11 College World Series appearances, including seven in a row from 1981-87. The Cowboys played in the CWS championship game in 1981, 1987 and 1990. He took Oklahoma State to Omaha as head coach in 1999, finishing the year with a 46-21 record and ranked No. 8 in the country. The Cowboys won 50 games or more eight times while Holliday was on the staff, including 61 victories in 1988, and averaged more than 47 wins per season. Holliday coached 10 first-team All-Americans and 27 total All-Americans at Stillwater, 92 all-conference performers, seven Freshman All-Americans, two U.S. Olympians and six U.S. National Team members, 52 academic all-conference honorees, and 155 players who went on to careers in professional baseball, including nine who were first-round draft picks.

Holliday spent the last three years as the pitching coach at the University of Texas. The Longhorns were NCAA runners-up in 2004, his first year in Austin, then won the national championship in 2005. Collegiate Baseball magazine named him its 2005 National College Pitching Coach of the Year. Holliday’s three Longhorn pitching staffs each ranked among the nation’s leaders statistically, and three of his pitchers at UT earned All-America honors. Nine pitchers from Holliday’s first two Texas pitching staffs went on to play professional baseball, and three more were drafted in the 2006 MLB draft.

Widely regarded as a top-flight recruiter, Holliday was instrumental in signing and working with numerous Oklahoma State players who went on to major league careers, including Pete Incaviglia (Baseball America’s Player of the Century), Robin Ventura (Baseball America’s Player of the Decade for the 1980s), Jeromy Burnitz, Mickey Tettleton, Doug Dascenzo, Scott Williamson, Mike Henneman, Luke Scott, Scott Baker, Matt Smith, Jeff Salazar and Josh Fields. At Texas, he worked closely with current major leaguers J.P. Howell and 2005 American League Rookie of the Year Huston Street.

Holliday will be responsible for the recruiting program at NC State, but his responsibilities will range far beyond recruiting. As associate head coach, he will be involved in all facets of the Wolfpack baseball program.

A native of Uniontown, Pa., Holliday and his wife Kathy, have two sons, Josh and Matt. Josh is a former Wolfpack volunteer assistant coach and is currently an assistant coach at Georgia Tech. Matt is the starting left fielder for the Colorado Rockies, and played in his first Major League All-Star Game in 2006. Both sons are married and each has one child.