Men's Lacrosse
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
- Email:
- bholman@uncaa.unc.edu
- Phone:
- 919-843-9672
Brian Holman, a former standout lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins, is now in his fifth year as an assistant coach for the North Carolina men's lacrosse program.
Holman serves as UNC's goalkeeper coach, runs the substitution box and helps coordinate the defense. He also helps oversee alumni relationships and organizes UNC's camps and clinics. Under Holman's guidance, UNC has hosted camps and clinics around the state of North Carolina as well as from coast to coast.
Holman's lacrosse pedigree is a distinguished one indeed as a player and coach. Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi named Holman as a new assistant coach for the men's lacrosse program in June 2008.
Holman has had an outstanding four years with the program tutoring goalkeepers Grant Zimmerman, James Petracca, Chris Madalon and Steven Rastivo as Carolina's goal against average decreased to 9.0 and then below nine goals allowed per game in both 2010 and 2011. This year he oversees a stellar group of goalkeepers which include returning starter Steven Rastivo, sophomore Andrew O'Connell and a pair of talented freshmen in Kieran Burke and Duncan Saunders.
"I think the world of Brian Holman," says Breschi. "He has great wisdom. He has had two sons play in our program and that makes him a great asset in building relationships with the other parents and making them feel a big part of UNC lacrosse. Brian adds a different dimension to our staff. He's great working with the goalies."
Holman has been involved in collegiate lacrosse at all levels for the past 33 plus years as a player, coach and parent.
Holman attended Johns Hopkins and was a member of the Class of 1983 in Homewood. As a player at Hopkins he was a three-time All-America selection and he played in four NCAA Tournament Championship games from 1980-83. As a freshman in 1980 he was part of an NCAA championship team at Johns Hopkins as the Blue Jays beat Virginia in overtime in the title game. The Blue Jays finished second in the nation in his final three years at the University.
Holman was a assistant goalkeeper coach and defensive coordinator at Johns Hopkins for seven years, an assistant coach at the Boys' Latin School of Maryland for four years, head coach for five years in the Maryland Youth Lacrosse Association and he served three years as head coach of the Breaker's Club Lacrosse Team in Baltimore, Md.
Brian and his wife, Laurie, are the parents of three spectacular children. Matthew is the oldest at 23 and he attended UMBC for two years where he played goalkeeper for Coach Don Zimmerman's team before transferring to Carolina. He played two years of lacrosse at UNC and graduated in 2012. Marcus, 22, is a Gilman School graduate and a senior attackman for the Tar Heel men's lacrosse squad. He won honors as the ACC Freshman of the Year in 2010 and was elected captain of both the 2012 and 2013 teams. A 2012 All-America, Marcus had one of the great seasons in UNC history, scoring 39 goals and passing for 35 assists. Sydney, 18, attends East Chapel Hill High School as a senior after being enrolled previously at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Sydney follows in the footsteps of her older brothers in being an outstanding high school lacrosse player. She is one of the highest rated seniors in the Class of 2013 recruiting rankings and has signed a letter of intent with Coach Jenny Levy's Tar Heel women's team. She will enroll at UNC next fall.
