Ryan Holleman is in his ninth year overall with the Broncos and serves as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Health, Wellness, and Performance. He has department oversight of sports medicine, sports performance, counseling & sport psychology, nutrition services, and sports science. Holleman also serves on the Athletic Director’s executive leadership team, is the sport administrator for a number of the Broncos athletic teams, and assists the business office in oversight of the athletic department budgets. He is the department’s Athletic Health Care Administrator for the NCAA and represents athletics on committees across campus for insurance, mental health, COVID-19, and substance abuse. During his time at SCU, he worked closely on the design and build of the Steven C. and Patricia A. Schott Athletic Excellence Center, which houses a majority of the Health, Wellness, and Performance units.
Holleman, who was hired in July 2017, joined the Broncos from North Carolina State University where he worked since August 2010 and served as a head athletic trainer since October 2011. At the ACC school, he provided sports medicine services to the Wolfpack men's basketball team and was a senior associate member of the sports medicine staff. He assisted the Associate AD for Sports Medicine with the daily operations of the department by supervising assigned staff & graduate assistants, scheduled all on-campus physician clinics, and served as the drug testing coordinator.
Prior to NC State, he was an assistant athletic trainer at High Point University. Holleman provided athletic training services to the baseball and women's soccer programs for the Panthers while serving as the drug testing and concussion coordinator.
Holleman’s previous experience also includes serving as an intern athletic trainer for the University of Virginia’s national runner-up women’s lacrosse team and worked for two seasons in professional baseball with the Durham Bulls, the AAA a?liate of the Tampa Bay Rays. Holleman earned his undergraduate degree from Western Carolina University in Athletic Training. He went on to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he earned his Master’s Degree in Education Administration with a focus in Athletic Administration. While with the Cornhuskers he worked with the football and baseball programs. He holds a Doctor of Athletic Training Degree from the Arizona School of Health Sciences at A.T. Still University. In addition to his education, he currently holds multiple credentials in the ?eld of sports medicine. Some of these credentials and training include: Certi?ed Athletic Trainer (BOC), First- Aid/CPR/AED, Certi?ed Strength and Conditioning Specialist (National Strength & Conditioning Association), Corrective Exercise Specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine), Sound-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization, Blood Flow Restriction training, Functional Movement Screen, and is Titleist Performance Institute Certi?ed. He was also previously credentialed as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).
Holleman serves as an Advisory Board member on the California Concussion Institute, which is a team of interdisciplinary providers across all levels of sport, who serve to create a community to spread concussion management best practices to the public, as well as health care providers. He also serves the profession of athletic training by working on committees/task forces with the Board of Certi?cation (BOC).
Holleman resides in Santa Clara with his wife (Tammy), two children (Karli Rae and Rhett), and dogs (Ellie and Griffey).
