Sports: Football, Baseball
Marcus Holliday enters his 13th year at East Texas Baptist University and his eighth as the head athletic trainer for all sports. Holliday has had the chance to cover all levels of athletic training in his career and will be the full-time trainer for football and baseball.
Working in various settings since his graduation in 1992, Holliday started his career as an outreach athletic trainer for a private physical therapy company in Greenville, South Carolina. He was then employed by an orthopedic physician practice working alongside a sport medicine specialist and trauma specialist. Before coming to ETBU, he worked four years at IMG Academies in Bradenton, FL. This sports academy was an academy for elite amateur and professional athletes participating in tennis, soccer, golf, basketball, baseball, and football. He also had the opportunity to provide care for athletes preparing for the NFL Combine, NBA Draft, and MLB Spring Training while working at the IMG International Performance Institute.
In his spare time, he is currently an athletic trainer for the US Soccer Federation and has traveled with the U-20 MNT to New Zealand for the U-20 World Cup. In 2013, he also traveled with the U-20 MNT to Turkey for the U-20 World Cup. Since 2008, he has had the opportunity to work with the US Women’s National Team, U-23 MNT, U-20 MNT, and U-18 MNT while traveling to places like China, Egypt, France, England, Ireland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Portugal, T&T, Mexico, and Guatemala. In 2008, he was a staff member for the US Men’s Olympic Soccer Team in Beijing, China.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Presbyterian College in 1992 and his graduate degree from Furman University in 1995, while also working as a graduate assistant. He has been married for 29 years to his wife Rachel and they have three children in Ashton, Jonas, Thomas, and one grand child.
