Swimming & Diving Provides Holder As Assistant Coach

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts swimming and diving introduced the addition of Hueston Holder to the employees as an assistant coach on Thursday afternoon. Holder will function the assistant coach for each the boys’s and girls’s swim and dive workforce alongside head coach Sean Clark of the boys’s workforce and Maiya Otsuka of the ladies’s workforce.

Holder involves Amherst after serving as the pinnacle coach of the Ashland University swimming and diving workforce for 2 seasons. While with the Eagles, he helped this system see its first nationwide qualifiers because the 2016 season, whereas being named the 2024-25 Men’s Swim and Dive Coach of the Year. He additionally  educated, mentored and supervised the employees to make sure program progress, athlete improvement and operational excellence.

From 2017-19, Holder was the pinnacle coach of the Lake Catholic High School and the Great Lakes Sailfish Swimming workforce. There, he directed the operations one of many Northeast Ohio’s fast-growing swim groups, overseeing recruitment, scheduling and coaching. He designed coaching packages for swimmers from ages seven to 22, starting from newbie to collegiate degree.

In addition to go teaching positions, Holder was an accounting analyst at Nestle, streamlining month-to-month reviews and enhancing the accuracy of the funds for 2 years.

Holder additionally served energetic responsibility  within the United States Coast Guard for 4 years and is presently and energetic reserve member since 2018 as a Public Affairs Specialist. He helps handle one of many U.S. Coast Guard’s high three social media platforms, rising international attain to 25,000-plus viewers, in addition to sustaining up-to-date data as Webmaster. Holder produced the U.S. Coast Guard’s Aviation Centennial video, which was featured service-wide and within the Smithsonian Institution.

A member of the Ashland swim & dive workforce, he was an NCAA Division II All-American as a senior within the males’s 200 medley relay. Holder stays a part of the program-record males’s 200 medley distance relay workforce, and 200 and 400 free relay quartets.

Holder earned his bachelor’s diploma from Ashland in 2014.