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 process.  Combining real world experience recruiting athletes with extensive legal and college coaching backgrounds, Wayne brings professionalism and expertise to a process carefully designed to help produce results.  Founding principles include commitments to personalized service and to developing prospects into self-sufficient recruits who learn to think and speak for themselves.

Coaching Experience

     Head Beach Volleyball Coach, Tulane University (2013-2019)

• Career record 109-77 (.586). Retired with 109 career wins ranking (at the time) 7th among active D-I beach volleyball head coaches and 9th all-time in NCAA history.
• Lead program to a national ranking in each of 6 consecutive seasons.
• Became the 9th D-I beach volleyball head coach in NCAA history to achieve 100 career dual match wins in a 5-0 victory over Southern Miss (March 8, 2019)
• Lead winningest women’s sports program on campus during six year tenure from 2013-2019
• Lead second winningest sports program (men’s and women’s) on campus during six year tenure from 2013-2019
• Three straight 20+ win seasons from 2016-18 and 18 wins in 2015
• Lead No. 1 pairs to back-to-back AVCA Collegiate Beach Volleyball Pairs National Championship appearances in 2014 and 2015, including reaching the Sweet 16 in 2015
• Recruited and coached program’s first and only 2 AVCA Beach Volleyball All Americans

     Assistant Beach Volleyball Coach, Georgia State University (2019-20)

     Assistant Coach, Brown University (2011-2013)

     USA Beach High Performance Experience (2011-2016)

• National High Performance Camp Coach (2011-2016)
• High Performance National Tryout Coach and Evaluator (2011-2016)

     USA Junior Beach National Teams Experience (2012-2019)

• Assistant Coach – U15 A1 National Training Team (2019)
• Head Coach – Future Stars Beach National Team (2016 and 2017)
• Assistant Coach - U23 Junior National Team (2014)
• Assistant Coach - U21 Junior National Team (under Jose Loiola) (2013)
• Assistant Coach - U19 Junior National Team (Volunteer) (2012-13)

Coaching Education and Committees

• USA Volleyball Coaching Education

           · USAV CAP I, II and II

           · USAV BCAP I and II

           · BCAP I and II Instructor

           · Curriculum consultant BCAP II

• AVCA Beach All American Committee (2017-2019)
• College Beach Volleyball Committee - National Rankings (2021-present)

Education

Wayne graduated from Rhode Island College in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science. After completing his undergraduate work, he earned his J.D. degree from New York Law School. He worked as an attorney in New York for 10 years primarily serving financial fraud and white-collar criminal defense clients.