2022-23 NORTH FLORIDA BASKETBALL @OspreysMBB
Chase Driscoll Director of Basketball Ops, Second Season North Florida, 2018 DRISCOLL AT A GLANCE PERSONAL
Hometown_______________ Pittsburgh, Pa. Born________________________ July 2, 1995 College______________ North Florida, 2018
COACHING EXPERIENCE
North Florida_______Director of Operations __________________________2021-Present Webber International______Assistant Coach _______________________________ 2020-21
Former Osprey basketball student-athlete Chase Driscoll returned to his alma mater in September 2021 to serve as the program’s Director of Basketball Operations.
Before his season at Webber, Driscoll was a graduate assistant men’s basketball coach at Oral Roberts University during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons. He graduated from North Florida with his Bachelor of Arts degree in athletic and education leadership while Driscoll came back to the UNF sidelines following a minoring in sports management. stint as an assistant basketball coach at Webber International University. He was a member of the Prior to his playing days at UNF, Driscoll was a prep Osprey basketball program from 2014-15 through the player at Bishop Kenny High School, where he helped 2017-18 season and was part of the program’s back-to- his team win back-to-back district titles in 2013 and back ASUN Championships. 2014 and a State Final Four appearance during his junior season.
Oral Roberts___________Graduate Assistant _______________________________ 2018-20
Donnie Holland Director of Player Development Fourth Season Campbell, 1973 HOLLAND AT A GLANCE PERSONAL
Hometown____________ Newport News, Va. College__________________Campbell, 1973 Family_____________________ Brenda, Wife _____________________ Heather, Daughter ______________________Brooke, Daughter __________________________ Weston, Son _______________________ Marle, Daughter
COACHING EXPERIENCE
North Florida_____ Dir. Player Development __________________________2019-Present Lowndes HS (Boys)___________ Head Coach _______________________________ 2014-19 Nation Ford HS (Boys)_________ Head Coach _______________________________ 2009-11 USC Aiken________________Assistant Coach _______________________________ 2007-09 South Aiken HS (Boys)________ Head Coach _____________________________1985-2007 Midland Valley HS (Boys)______ Head Coach _______________________________ 1982-85 Silver Bluff HS (Boys)_________ Head Coach _______________________________ 1979-82 Williston Elko HS (Boys)_______ Head Coach _______________________________ 1976-79 Laurinburg Institute_______Assistant Coach _______________________________ 1974-76 Aynor HS (JV Boys)___________ Head Coach _______________________________ 1973-74
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Donnie Holland, a veteran prep and college coach of more than four decades, joined Matthew Driscoll’s staff in August 2019 as the program’s first Director of Player Development.
Midland Valley High School (1982-85) and South Aiken High School (1985-2007), where he also served as assistant athletic director. He capped his stay in Aiken serving two seasons as a men’s basketball assistant coach at the University of South Carolina at Aiken from This voluntary, non-coaching position serves the 2007-09. Ospreys as a liaison for quality control, aids in developing life skills and strategies for players and In 2009, Holland took over the boy’s varsity program at assists the entire staff in a variety of other capacities. Nation Ford High School (Fort Mill, S.C.) until 2011 and then became an administrator for three years at the In 43 years of coaching basketball at the high school Ombudsman School in Kingsland, Ga. Holland would and collegiate levels, Holland amassed a career record conclude his coaching career as the head varsity boy’s of 472-394. He was voted a Region Coach of the Year, basketball coach at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, 10 times during his career. Ga., from 2014-19. He began is coaching career as Head JV coach at Aynor (S.C.) High School in 1973-74. He followed that with a stint as assistant coach at Laurinburg (N.C.) Institute Prep School from 1974-76. Next came a three-year stop at Williston (S.C.)-Elko High School as head boy’s JV and varsity basketball coach.
Holland earned a bachelor’s degree from Campbell College in 1973 followed by a master’s degree in education from the University of South Carolina in 1990.
A native of Newport News, Va., Holland is married to the former Brenda Sherrod. The couple have four Holland would then spend the next 30 years in Aiken, children (Heather, Brooke, Weston and Marle) and S.C., with stints at Silver Bluff High School (1979-82), seven grandchildren (J. Strom, Field, Averi, Graham, Anne Holland, Landry and Easton).
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