Wayne Holloway enters his sixth season as an assistant coach for the University of Illinois at Chicago's track & field program. He is responsible for the growth and development of sprinters and hurdlers. In Holloway's first five seasons at UIC his student-athletes have broken 18 school records and three conference records. He has produced nine Horizon League champions and qualified seven athletes for the NCAA Outdoor Mideast Regional. Prior to coming to UIC, Holloway enjoyed a successful three-year run as the girls sprint and hurdle coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill. The Vikings won three straight outdoor conference titles under his tutelage. At H-F Holloway guided eventual UCLA All-American Adia McKinnon to an IHSA state record in the 400-meter dash (52.91), as well as state championships in the sprint medley, 100-meter and 200-meter dashes in 2000. From 1991-2002 Holloway was a volunteer sprint, hurdle and jump coach for the University of Chicago Track Club (UCTC) and the Angelic Flyers Track Club. While coaching youth track, Holloway guided Nosa Ehimwenman, a Big Ten outdoor triple jump champion in 2002 for Ohio State, to a seventh-place finish in the triple jump at the 1998 USATF Junior Olympics in Seattle. He has also coached numerous athletes who went on to compete at the Division I, II, III and NAIA levels. Holloway is a USATF Level I certified coach. Holloway earned his bachelor's degree in liberal arts from the University of Iowa in 1976, where he played on both sides of the ball for the Hawkeye football team. Holloway is a product of Chicago Public School Harlan High, where he lettered in track, football and baseball before graduating in 1969. Holloway and his wife, Irma, have two sons, Wayne and Warren, and reside in Homewood, Ill. Warren also graduated from the University of Iowa, where he played wide receiver on the Iowa football squad and was also a sprinter on the Iowa track team. |
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