Tony Holliday brings a wealth of basketball coaching experience at a variety of levels in his 35 years of coaching.
Holliday most recently spent 10 seasons on the Livingstone College staff, where he helped the D-II Blue Bears to three Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Southern Division Championships and two CIAA Tournament titles.
Livingstone won their first ever division championship in 2012-13 with a school record 22 wins, reached the tournament championship game and made their first NCAA Tournament appearance.
In his first season on staff in 2010-11, Holliday made an immediate impact by aiding Livingstone to their first CIAA Tournament championship game.
Holliday helped guide two Boxtorow Players of the Year, which is awarded to the best player from a Division II HBCU. Roger Ray won the honor in 2019-20 and Mark Thomas earned the nod in 2013-14.
Before Livingstone, Holliday coached the Atlanta Celtics to an AAU U15 national championship in 2009 after serving as an assistant coach at Paideia High in Atlanta.
Holliday came from the collegiate ranks as a Virginia State assistant for two seasons and also spent time at Colorado and Mott Community College.
The Michigan high school coaching legend recently returned to take over Flint Hamady High, where he coached the previous two seasons before coming to NSU.
Holliday chiseled his name into the Michigan high school basketball bedrock, helping the Flint Northwestern girls to the 1983 and 1984 state titles as an assistant, taking the Flint Northern boys to the 1995 state title and leading Beecher High’s boys and girls to district and region championships along with the boys 2003 state semifinals.
Holliday’s top players included Northwestern’s Tonya Edwards (Tennessee and WNBA), Northern’s Mateen Cleaves (NBA, Michigan State, 2000 national champions) and Beecher’s Marquise Gray (Michigan State).
Holliday earned a degree in physical education with an emphasis in sport management from Pacific Western in 1997.
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