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Chase Driscoll
DRISCOLL AT A GLANCE
PERSONAL
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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
Oral Roberts __________
Graduate Assistant
______________________________ 2018-20
Director of Basketball Ops, Second Season North Florida, 2018
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.
Driscoll came back to the UNF sidelines following a stint as an assistant basketball coach at Webber International University. He was a member of the Osprey basketball program from 2014-15 through the 2017-18 season and was part of the program’s back-toback ASUN Championships. 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 minoring in sports management.
Prior to his playing days at UNF, Driscoll was a prep player at Bishop Kenny High School, where he helped his team win back-to-back district titles in 2013 and 2014 and a State Final Four appearance during his junior season.
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
______________________________
Donnie Holland
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.
This voluntary, non-coaching position serves the Ospreys as a liaison for quality control, aids in developing life skills and strategies for players and assists the entire staff in a variety of other capacities.
In 43 years of coaching basketball at the high school and collegiate levels, Holland amassed a career record of 472-394. He was voted a Region Coach of the Year, 10 times during his career.
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. 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 2007-09.
In 2009, Holland took over the boy’s varsity program at Nation Ford High School (Fort Mill, S.C.) until 2011 and then became an administrator for three years at the Ombudsman School in Kingsland, Ga. Holland would conclude his coaching career as the head varsity boy’s basketball coach at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Ga., from 2014-19.
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 children (Heather, Brooke, Weston and Marle) and seven grandchildren (J. Strom, Field, Averi, Graham, Anne Holland, Landry and Easton).#BirdsofTrey
