Tony Holliday

BIRTHPLACE Flint, Michigan CHILDREN Antonio Holliday, Olandus Byrd, Anthony Holliday Jr. HIGH SCHOOL Flint Northwestern COLLEGE Pacific Western DEGREE Physical Education (BS)

Tony HolLiday Assistant coach 1st year at NSU

Tony Holliday brings a wealth of basketball coaching experience at a variety of levels in his 45 years of coaching.

Holliday most recently spent 10 seasons on the Livingstone College staff, where he helped the D-II Blue Bears to three Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Southern Division Championships and two CIAA Tournament titles.

Livingstone won their first ever division championship in 2012-13 with a school record 22 wins, reached the tournament championship game and made their first NCAA Tournament appearance.

In his first season on staff in 2010-11, Holliday made an immediate impact by aiding Livingstone to their first CIAA Tournament championship game.

Holliday helped guide two Boxtorow Players of the Year, which is awarded to the best player from a Division II HBCU. Roger Ray won the honor in 2019-20 and Mark Thomas earned the nod in 2013-14.

During Holliday's decade at Livingstone, the Blue Bears won more national tournament games than any other HBCU.

Before Livingstone, Holliday coached the Atlanta Celtics to an AAU U15 national championship in 2009 after serving as an assistant coach at Paideia High in Atlanta.

Holliday came from the collegiate ranks as a Virginia State assistant for two seasons from 2005-07, helping the Trojans share the 2006-07 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association regular-season title, and also spent time at Colorado and Mott Community College.

The Michigan high school coaching legend recently returned to take over Flint Hamady High, where he coached the previous two seasons before coming to NSU.

Holliday chiseled his name into the Michigan high school basketball bedrock, helping the Flint Northwestern girls to the 1983 and 1984 state titles as an assistant, taking the Flint Northern boys to the 1995 state title and leading Beecher High’s boys and girls to district and region championships along with the boys 2003 state semifinals.

Earlier, Holliday led Flushing HIgh School to a co-Big Nine championship in 2000.

Holliday coached seven McDonald's All-Americans and three players who won NCAA national championships — Tonya Edwards (Tennessee), Northern’s Mateen Cleaves (Michigan State) and Glen Rice (Michigan). Beecher’s Marquise Gray (Michigan State).

He will be inducted into the Greater Flint African American Sports Hall of Fame in 2023.

Holliday earned a degree in physical education with an emphasis in sport management from Pacific Western in 1997.