Wayne Holloway is in his third year as the head men’s cross country/track & field coach at Chicago State University after being named to that position on October 1, 2008.
Coach Holloway's athletes have broken 14 school records, produced two Great West Conference champions, qualified one athlete for the NCAA Outdoor Mideast Regional and three athletes achieved Academic All-Conference honors.
Before to coming to CSU, Coach Holloway served six seasons as the sprint, hurdles and jumps coach at UIC. During his tenure, at UIC his athletes broke eighteen school records, three conference records, produced nine Horizon League conference champions and qualified seven athletes for the NCAA Outdoor Mideast Regional.
Prior to joining UIC, Coach Holloway enjoyed a successful three-year run as the girls sprint and hurdle coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill. The Lady Vikings won three straight outdoor conference titles under his tutelage. Holloway also guided eventual UCLA All-American Adia McKinnon to the IHSA Class AA state record in the 400-meter dash (52.91), as well as state championships in the sprint medley, 100-meter and 200-meter dashes in 2000.
From 1991-2002 Holloway was a volunteer sprint, hurdle and jump coach for the University of Chicago Track Club and the Angelic Flyers Track Club. While coaching youth track, Holloway guided Nosa Ehimwenman, future Big Ten outdoor triple jump champion in 2002 for Ohio State, to a seventh place finish in the triple jump at the 1998 USATF National Junior Olympics in Seattle. In addition, he guided Brittany Riley, the current world record holder in the women’s weight throw, to a fifth-place finish in the shot put at the 2002 USATF National Junior Olympics in Omaha. He has also coached numerous future All-American athletes who went on to compete in the NCAA Division I, II and III levels.
Holloway achieved his USATF Level I Coaches certification in 1998.
Holloway earned his bachelor's degree in liberal arts from the University of Iowa in 1976, where he played on the freshmen basketball team and both sides of the ball for the Hawkeye football team. In high school, Holloway attended Harlan High in Chicago, where he lettered in track for coach Gerald Richards, football for coach Sherman Howard and baseball for Coach Lee Umbles before graduating in 1969.
Holloway and his wife, Irma, have two sons, Wayne and Warren, and reside in Homewood, Ill. Warren also graduated from the University of Iowa, where he played wide receiver for the Hawkeyes and was a sprinter on the track team.
