University of Massachusets Athletics
Women's Swimming & Diving
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- huestonholde@umass.edu
- Phone:
- 413-560-1038
Hueston Holder joined the University of Massachusetts staff as the men's and women's swimming and diving assistant coach in October 2025. Holder came to Amherst after serving as the head coach of the Ashland University swimming and diving team for two seasons.
The 2025-26 season saw the Minutemen finished fourth in their first Missouri Valley Conference Championships with 925.50 points. Freshman Hudson Bawduniak picked up the silver medal in the 100 breaststroke (53.15) and a bronze medal in the 200 breaststroke (1:57.92) during the MVC Championships. Holder guided four relay teams in the 200 freestyle relay (1:20.56), 400 freestyle relay (2:56.70), 200 medley relay (1:28.09) and the 400 medley relay (3:14.61) during the championships that broke program records, while Bawduniak broke a school record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 53.14. Bawduniak’s time marked a freshman record, as well.
Additionally Carson Harrington and Alex Kreidler attended the 2026 NCAA Zone A Diving Championships.
Seven Minutemen earned All-MVC awards, highlighted by Bawduniak with an All-MVC First Team nod. Jude Boukarroum, Harrington, Liam Hickey, Chase Keeler, Kreidler and Sammy Quigg tabbed All-MVC Honorable Mention honors. Six Minutemen were named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team, four were placed on the College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-District Team and the men’s team garnered CSCAA Scholar All-America honors in the fall.
While with the Eagles, he helped the program see its first national qualifiers since the 2016 season, while being named the 2024-25 Men's Swim and Dive Coach of the Year. He also trained, mentored and supervised the staff to ensure program growth, athlete development and operational excellence.
From 2017-19, Holder was the head coach of the Lake Catholic High School and the Great Lakes Sailfish Swimming team. There, he directed the operations one of the Northeast Ohio's fast-growing swim teams, overseeing recruitment, scheduling and training. He designed training programs for swimmers from ages seven to 22, ranging from beginner to collegiate level.
In addition to head coaching positions, Holder was an accounting analyst at Nestle, streamlining monthly reports and improving the accuracy of the budget for two years.
Holder also served active duty in the United States Coast Guard for four years and is currently and active reserve member since 2018 as a Public Affairs Specialist. He helps manage one of the U.S. Coast Guard's top three social media platforms, growing global reach to 25,000-plus viewers, as well as maintaining up-to-date information as Webmaster. Holder produced the U.S. Coast Guard's Aviation Centennial video, which was featured service-wide and in the Smithsonian Institution.
A member of the Ashland swim & dive team, he was an NCAA Division II All-American as a senior in the men's 200 medley relay. Holder remains part of the program-record men's 200 medley distance relay team, and 200 and 400 free relay quartets.
Holder earned his bachelor's degree from Ashland in 2014.
