Mike Holloway is an American college track and field

Track and field

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 coach. Holloway is the current head coach

Head coach

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 of the Florida Gators track and field and Gators cross country

Florida Gators cross country

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 programs of the University of Florida

University of Florida

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. He is best known for leading the Florida Gators men's indoor track and field team to consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 (NCAA) Division I national championships in 2010 and 2011.

After taking over the Florida program in 2002, he has been one of the top track and field coaches in the country. As the head track coach, he has produced twelve individual national champions; twenty-three All-Americans; and eighty-nine All-America Honors. As the head cross country coach, he produced twelve individual national champions; forty-seven All-Americans; and 141 All-America Honors. Following the Gators' 2010 and 2011 NCAA indoor track and field championships, Holloway was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association

U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association

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 (USTFCCCA) national indoor track and field coach of the year.

Before becoming the head coach of the men's track and field team at Florida after the 2002 outdoor season, he was the assistant coach from 1995 to 2002, and the head coach of the track team at Buchholz High School

Buchholz High School

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 in Gainesville. Since 2007, he has been the head coach of both the Gators men's and women's track and field teams, the first coach to lead both teams. Holloway graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree

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 in history in 2000. His hometown is Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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.

In February 2011, Holloway was named as an assistant coach for the U.S. track and field team for the 2012 Olympics; he will work with the U.S. sprinters and hurdlers.

See also

• Florida Gators
  Florida Gators
  The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...
  
  
• History of the University of Florida
  History of the University of Florida
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• List of University of Florida Olympians
• Percy Beard Track
  James G. Pressly Stadium
  The James G. Pressly Stadium at Percy Beard Track is a 4,500-seat dual-purpose stadium located on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida. The stadium is home to the Florida Gators women's soccer team and the men's and women's Florida Gators track and field teams. The facility...
  
  
• University Athletic Association
  University of Florida Athletic Association
  The University Athletic Association, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that is responsible for maintaining the Florida Gators intercollegiate sports program of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida...
  
  

External links

• Mike Holloway – Official biography at GatorZone.com.