University of Maryland Athletics

Walter Holliday

  • Title
    Assistant Director
Phone: 301-314-7316
Fax: 301-314-9997
Email: walth@umd.edu



Holliday has been working for 12 years in the area of student-athlete development at the Division I level.

Holliday is in his second year as the assistant director of academic support for student-athletes at the University of Maryland where he works with the football team on a daily basis to ensure both their academic and personal development.

Prior to Maryland, Holliday worked for six years at Rutgers University as a senior advisor for men's basketball. He also spent five years at Temple University as an assistant athletics director for academic support.

A 1992 graduate of Upsala College with a bachelor's of arts in communications, Holliday continues to be very active in the National Association for Athletic Advisors (N4A) where he is currently the co-chairperson for the student-athlete recognition committee. Prior to that he served on the N4A executive board from 2000-02 as a Region One representative and has presented at three national conventions.

Holliday was a four-year starter on the Upsala football team where he was voted captain and named the team's most valuable lineman as a senior.