Pat Holguin
Head Coach
As the head of both Marietta College soccer programs for the past eight years, Patrick Holguin spends most of his fall on the soccer field. The 2008 campaign will be no different. Holguin enters his ninth season as the women’s head coach; it will also be his 11th year leading the men’s program.
Sporting a career overall record of 77-50-15 (.595) with the women’s program, Holguin holds the best winning percentage among any of the Lady Pioneers’ past coaches. He is also the only coach in school history to achieve 12 wins in a season, a feat he accomplished in 2003 and 2004. He then led his 2005 Pioneers to a school record 14 wins. Holguin’s 2003 crew was also responsible for claiming Marietta’s best Ohio Athletic Conference finish (two-way tie for third) since 1991. Under his direction, the women have racked up 25 All-OAC and 15 Academic All-OAC honors. In addition, four athletes were named Clyde A. Lamb recipients, while one received the Betty Cleland award.
Holguin has achieved similar success with the men’s program, compiling a 66-93-15 (.422) career record. Holguin’s winning percentage ranks fifth among Pioneer coaches. Last year, he guided the men to a late-season run and earned the school’s first OAC Tournament berth in 10 seasons. In 2002, his team finished the season 12-5-2, the most victories by a squad since 1984. Holguin’s athletes have accumulated 15 All-OAC and 12 Academic All-OAC honors. Among them is Marcos Vaca, only the second player in Marietta history to earn All-OAC honors for four straight years (2001-04).
A 1989 graduate from Quinnipiac College with a degree in international business, Holguin began his coaching career in Houston, Texas. From 1993-97, he was the head coach of the men and women’s club soccer program at the University of Houston. He was also involved as a coach with the South Texas Olympic Development Program, and was the Director of Player Development and Coaching with the Alliance Soccer Program.
Holguin remains involved with the Olympic Development Program in West Virginia. He was also the Director of Player Development and Coaching for the River Valley Soccer Club from 1999-2003. Holguin returned to the role in 2008.
Holguin, who lives in Marietta, earned a master’s degree in education from Marietta College in 2008.
