At Campbell College in Buie’s Creek, North Carolina, Bill Holleman discovered two of the greatest passions in his life: his wife Kay, and soccer. Since that time both have been mainstays in his life and have become part of what makes him such a great husband, father, teacher, friend, leader, administrator and coach. Although he played many sports as a child, it was not until college that he saw his first soccer game, but he was instantly hooked. He played for Campbell, and during his senior year made a decision that would end up affecting the lives of countless people in the future. Rather than attend law school as his father did, Bill decided to teach and coach.

We in the Georgia Soccer Community would like to believe that we have always had Bill as one of us, but that is simply not the truth. He came to Georgia after he left Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina, with nearly 300 games of successful coaching and two state championships. Here he spent 14 years with the Lovett School and Georgia Youth Soccer, coaching four-state high school, five-state club, and two regional club championship teams. In all, Bill coached over 750 games in high school and youth soccer. He is also noted as a founder of the Concorde Youth Soccer Club.

Bill’s success is not limited to the sidelines. In 1989, Bill became the Director of Coaching for GSSA, and helped professionalize the position to the first full-time paid GSSA Director of Coaching. Bill is a former President of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and remains involved with it to this day.

In 1992, Bill went with the “World Cup 1994” organizing committee. After a stint in Los Angeles, he then took the position of Venue Executive Director in Detroit, where capacity crowds saw the first-ever World Cup games played indoors on natural grass. Following the World Cup, Bill took charge as Venue Director of the Birmingham Alabama, Olympic site with his wife Kay joining him t o assist in the effort. They oversaw Birmingham’s Legion Field achieve the highest average soccer attendance of the Olympics, far outpacing the better-known Washington, Orlando, and Miami venues.

However, Bill’s true success is not measured by the winning teams he has coached, the organizations he led or the successful events he has staged, but rather, by the players he has taught and coached over the years. The impact he has had on their lives goes beyond the lessons he taught them as a player and carries over to the success most of them now enjoy in life.

It is that same passion in and commitment to teaching and coaching that has recently brought Bill and his wife Kay back to teaching Kay is the Department Head of guidance counselors at Shiloh High School, and Bill is currently Shiloh’s Varsity Boy’s Soccer Coach and Athletic Director, where future generations of players will have the privilege to call him their coach and share in the success that he creates.

Bill and Kay have two sons, Todd and Chad, both of which were outstanding soccer players with the Concorde Soccer Club and the Lovett School. Todd participated in soccer at UNC, Chapel Hill while Chad kicked for the UGA Football team.