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ECCC Coaching Staff

Neal Holliman
Head Coach
nholliman@eccc.edu
Neal Holliman is in his sixth year as head baseball coach and has compiled an overall 143-115 record. He led the 2011 DiamondWarriors to a 28-20 mark and a third-place finish in the MACJC South Division with a 13-11 record. The talented squad received national recognition during season action and was ranked as high as 15thin the NJCAA poll. EC qualified for post-season play but dropped a pair of decisions (10-8, 10-5) to host Northwest Mississippi Community College in the best of three series.
Holliman’s 2010 squadfinished runners-up in the MACJC State Baseball Tournament and advanced to the Region 23 Tournament before completing season action with a 39-20 record. The Diamond Warriors were ranked as high as 10thin the NJCAA poll during the 2010 campaign.
Holliman led his first squad in 2007 to the MACJC State Baseball Championship and a 31-23 record. In recognition of his team’s success, Holliman waschosen MACJC Baseball Coach of the Year.
The team’s accomplishment represented the second state title for the ECCC baseball program. Holliman was a first-year assistant to then head coach Jamie Clarkwhen the Diamond Warriors won the championship in 1998. East Central also qualified for the Region 23 Tournament during all three seasons Holliman served as Coach Clark’s assistant.
Prior to joiningthe EC staff, Coach Holliman was an assistant baseball coach at the University of West Alabama and helped lead the Diamond Tigers to the 2005 Gulf South Conference Championship and a berth in the NCAADivision II South Central Regional before finishing with a school record 45 wins. The 2006 squad finished runners-up for the Gulf South Conference Championship and also advanced to the NCAA Division IISouth Central Regional.
A graduate of Pickens Academy in Carrollton, Ala., Holliman was an Academic All-Conference third baseman and pitcher at UWA (then known as Livingston University), where he...