The Speaker for our next meeting will be Braden Holloway, Head Swimming and Diving Coach at NC State. Since being named to the position, Holloway’s tenure has been full of success. After capturing the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Men’s Coach of the Year honor, he has gone on to win that award nine times (2013, 2015-2020, 2022, 2023). Holloway was also the 2017 ACC Women’s Coach of the Year.
Holloway most recently guided his squads to the best combined national finish of any men’s and women’s programs across the country as the men placed fourth at the NCAA Championships and the women finished fifth. He directly coached Katharine Berkoff and Kacper Stokowski both to 100-yard backstroke national titles as the Pack swept the event. He also led NC State’s men back to the top of the podium at the 2022 ACC Championships.
Holloway has led the Wolfpack to 361 All-ACC performances, 454 All-America performances, 78 ACC individual titles, and 46 ACC relay gold medals.
In addition to his accomplishments at the collegiate level of coaching, Holloway has mentored 12 Olympians during his career. That number is highlighted by program alumnus Ryan Held, who claimed a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics as the third leg of Team USA’s winning 4×100 meter freestyle relay team. Holloway recently served as the men’s head coach for USA Swimming’s squad at the 2019 World University Games in Naples, Italy. There, he helped lead Team USA to a total of 40 medals at the meet, marking the most overall podium finishes and most first-place finishes for the United States in World University Games history.
(Thanks for the info, gopack.com)
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All Meetings at Croasdaile Country Club
12/20/23 – Christmas Luncheon featuring N&O’s Luke DeCock’s “Year in Sports” wrap-up
1/3/24 – NO MEETING
1/17/24 – WE’RE BACK!