Notebook: Holloway Makes History With NCAA Title
Monday, March 15, 2010 | Track and Field
For anyone who knows Florida head coach Mike Holloway, they know that the 2010 NCAA Men's Indoor National Championship was a long-time coming for a coach who has experienced great success at all levels of track and field.
The NCAA Championship was the first by the UF men's track and field program in its nearly 90-year history. But Holloway also made history in a different way on Saturday night in Fayetteville, Ark.
Holloway became the first African-American head coach to win an NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship in the history of the sport on Saturday evening.
Holloway is just one of a handful of African-American head coaches to win national titles in collegiate athletics, including men's basketball coaches John Thompson (1984), Nolan Richardson (1994) and Tubby Smith (1998), women's track and field coach Beverly Kearney (first in 1992), and women's basketball coach Carolyn Peck (1998).
National Titles by Prominent African-American Head Coaches
Tina Sloan Green, Women's Lacrosse, Temple University
Mike Holloway, Men's Track and Field, University of Florida
Beverly Kearney, Women's Track and Field, University of Florida/University of Texas
Carolyn Peck, Women's Basketball, Purdue University
Nolan Richardson, Men's Basketball, University of Arkansas
Tubby Smith, Men's Basketball, University of Kentucky
John Thompson, Men's Basketball, Georgetown University
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