Our Consulting Team

Wayne Holly founded Beach Prospects with a vision to help empower prospects and families to make informed decisions throughout the college beach volleyball search and recruiting process. Wayne combines years of experience as an NCAA beach volleyball coach with an extensive legal background to bring professionalism and expertise to a process carefully designed to empower athletes to make informed choices.

NCAA Experience

Wayne is the former head beach volleyball coach at Tulane University (2013-2019) where he recruited and coached the only two beach volleyball All Americans in program history.  He led the program to a national ranking in each of six consecutive seasons from 2013-2019, including three straight 20+ win seasons (2016-2018) and led the winningest women's athletics program on campus during his six year tenure.  He became the 9th head beach volleyball coach in history to achieve 100 career wins on March 8, 2019 with a 5-0 win over the University of Southern Mississippi.  At the time of his departure from Tulane, Wayne ranked 7th among active head coaches in beach volleyball wins.  During the 2019-2020 (COVID) season, Wayne was an assistant beach volleyball coach at Georgia State University.  Wayne began his collegiate coaching career in the Ivy League at Brown University.  He was an assistant women's indoor coach from 2011-2013.

USA Volleyball

Wayne has held numerous head and assistant coaching positions with USA Volleyball's former Beach High Performance Program and Junior National Team programming, including:

* Head Coach, USA Future Stars Beach National Team (2016-2017) (Girls)

* Assistant Coach, U15 Beach National Training Team (2019) (Girls)

* Assistant Coach, U21 Beach National Team (2013) (Men and Women)

* Assistant Coach, U23 Beach National Team (2014) (Men and Women)

* Assistant Coach, U19 Junior National Team (volunteer) (2012-2013) (girls)

Internationally, Wayne was a member of the USA Volleyball coaching staff delegations for the FIVB U21 World Championships (Men and Women) (Croatia), U23 World  Championships (Men and Women) (Poland) and U19 World Championships (Men and Women) (Portugal).

Coaching Education

In addition to coaching, Wayne previously worked extensively with USA Volleyball Coaching Education.  He earned the highest level coaching certifications available to the general public in both indoor (CAP III) and beach (BCAP II) volleyball coaching.  He was an instructor for USAV's Beach Coaching Accreditation Program and developed curriculum for the BCAP program in areas related to practice design, season practice planning, periodization, feedback, motor learning and other topics.

Wayne continues to conduct independent research and write extensively on issues related to beach volleyball coaching.  His work has appeared in the Coaching Volleyball Magazine, the JVA Blog and numerous other volleyball media outlets.  He was a regular presenter at the annual AVCA Coaches Convention, appeared in numerous coaching webinars and collaborated with the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) on developing effective methods for measuring performance for beach volleyball athlete development.

Wayne  is a former member of the AVCA Beach All American Committee and the CBVB National Ranking Committee for collegiate beach volleyball from  2020 through 2024.

Wayne earned a B.A. degree in philosophy and political science from Rhode Island College (1989) and a J.D. from New York Law School (1993).  He is a former intern and research aid to the late Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) in Washington D.C.