Allison Holladay possesses a wealth of experience with eight years of coaching at the NCAA Division I level. She has served in the capacity of assistant coach carrying the titles of goalkeeper coach and recruiting coordinator since 2003. In her time at McNeese State she has helped guide two goalkeepers to the SLC All-Conference First Team, and one to the SLC All-Tournament First Team. The 2007 season saw the best goalkeeping results in the history of the program while posting 10 shutouts and a 0.96 goals against average using both goalkeepers on the roster.

Holladay approaches goalkeeping training with the individual needs of the keeper in mind. She enjoys working closely with the players in order to enhance the assets each keeper can bring to the team. Recognizing that not all goalkeepers are the same, she designs her training sessions to aim towards specific techniques and execution. Her sessions include drills with a multiple of components in order for each goalkeeper to benefit at all times. Holladay believes daily goalkeeper training is a necessity for success. "This time for keepers to work on their own is invaluable to their development." She also works closely with Coach Savoie to match the keeper sessions to the team training theme. This allows the goalkeepers to transfer their training into a live environment with their teammates on a daily bases.

Holladay also has seen success as a recruiting coordinator. Our "player-first" philosophy at McNeese State has been instrumental in recruiting the student athletes that won the 2007 Regular Season SLC title and the 2006 Southland Conference Tournament Championship while making the program's first NCAA National Tournament Appearance. Her recruiting efforts have paid off by adding to the program a Mexico National full team player, U-15 USA National Team Player, and the New Mexico Player of the Year. Eighteen of the players on the current McNeese Squad including the 2008 recruiting class have ODP experience. Holladay strives to recruit players that are the perfect "fit" for the program. She aims to recruit players whose personalities as well as playing styles will mesh with the team and the coaching staff.

After serving as an assistant coach at Southeastern Louisiana University for three seasons, Holladay joined Coach Savoie and the Cowgirl Family. She concluded her playing career in 1999 as the most decorated player in the history of Southeastern soccer, helping the Lady Lions to two Southland Conference regular season titles (1999, 2002) and a Southland Conference Tournament title (1998).

Holladay began her career at LSU in 1995 and started in the majority of games, including the SEC Tournament. After a red shirt season in 1996, she transferred to Southeastern Louisiana University in 1997. Throughout her SLU career, she logged 5,401 minutes played, missing just 20 minutes of action in 59 career games with a 0.71 goals against average, a school record that still stands today. She is one of three Lady Lions to have been named All-Southland Conference three times (1997, 1998, 1999). She was also named to the Southland Conference Tournament Team twice (1998, 1999). Perhaps her greatest honor was becoming the first soccer player inducted into the Southeastern Louisiana University Hall of Fame in the Fall of 2004.

Her playing career accomplishments include:

1997: "Newcomer of the Year" from the Southland Conference

1998: Southland Conference and Louisiana Sportswriters Association "Player

of the Year"; Louisiana Athletic Director's "Athlete of the Year";

Southeastern Louisiana "Female Athlete of the Year"

1999: Louisiana Sportswriters Association "Player of the Year"

Holladay holds a National Soccer Coaches' Association of America (NSCAA)

National Advanced diploma as well as a National Goalkeeping Level III

diploma.

A native of Nuremberg, Germany, Holladay graduated from St. Joseph's

Academy in Baton Rouge, received her Bachelors degree in Speech

Communication from Southeastern La. in 1999 and her Masters of Science in

Health and Human Performance from McNeese State in 2006.