The University of Mississippi Athletics
Track and Field
Sherrer, Holland
Holland Sherrer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach - Sprints, Hurdles
- Year at Ole Miss:
- Third
- E-mail:
- hsherrer@olemiss.edu
- Phone:
- 662-915-7538
- Alma Mater:
- Ole Miss (2016)
Ole Miss track & field All-American alum Holland Sherrer is in his third season as the sprints and hurdles coach for the Rebels under head coach Connie Price-Smith in 2022-23.
Sherrer was most recently an assistant coach down the road at Mississippi State, where he was in charge of men’s and women’s sprints, hurdles and relays. At MSU, Sherrer coached SEC scorer and All-Freshman member Rosealee Cooper in the 60-meter hurdles, who topped out at 8.15 in 2021.
Prior to his stay in Starkville, Sherrer worked with the sprints and jumps groups at Syracuse for the 2019 season. There, his assisted Eunice Boateng, Dasia Pressley, Alexis Crosby and Cheyenne Trigg, who broke the school record in the 4x100-meter relay at the ACC Outdoor Championships (45.17) then did so again at the NCAA East Prelims (44.36).
Sherrer also helped with hurdlers who scored at both the indoor and outdoor conference championships. Matt Moore finished third in the indoor 60-meter hurdles (7.83), while Richard Floyd and Chevis Armstead II were third (14.07) and seventh (14.38), respectively, in the 110-meter hurdles outdoors. Floyd went on to run at the NCAA East Prelims where he missed advancing to the national championships by 0.07 seconds.
Sherrer helped the Orange sign a gifted class headlined by the No. 1 ranked sprinter from New Jersey in Dennisha Page, as well as Aja Davis, who was sixth in the 60-meter at the New Balance National Indoor meet.
Sherrer spent the previous two seasons in 2017 and 2018 as a volunteer assistant at Florida, helping the Gator men along the way to national team titles outdoors in 2017 and indoors in 2018. The Gators also both the men’s and women’s team titles at the 2018 SEC Outdoor Championships.
At Florida, Sherrer worked with the Gators’ middle distance group, where he oversaw Andres Arroyo’s breakout 2017 season. Arroyo qualified for the 2017 IAAF World Championships after winning the 800-meter at the SEC Indoor Championships and scoring at the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the first time in his career. He also saw Justin Pacifico compete at the 2017 USATF Junior Championships, where he was fifth in the 800-meter.
Sherrer is a 2016 graduate of Ole Miss with a bachelor’s in social work, where he was a three-year letterwinner and competed his final season under Price-Smith in her first at the helm. In his time as a Rebel, he was a two-time NCAA Championships qualifier and three-time NCAA East Region qualifier, earning Second-Team All-American status outdoors in 2016 (12th place) and an Honorable Mention nod in 2015 (24th). His 800-meter PR of 1:47.34 earned him a trip to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he finished 27th in the nation. Sherrer was also a 2015 qualifier for the USATF Outdoor Championships.
He was a member of the 2015 SEC Champion distance medley relay team, the second of the still on-going streak of seven of the last eight DMR titles for the Ole Miss men. His indoor 800-meter PR of 1:50.15 from 2015 still ranks 14th all-time at Ole Miss, and his aforementioned outdoor best of 1:47.13 still sits fifth all-time. He was also a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll as a Rebel.
Sherrer, a native of Deerfield, New Jersey, began his collegiate career at Rend Lake Community College, where he was a two-time NJCAA All-American and won an NJCAA Championship on the 4x800-meter relay.
Sherrer was most recently an assistant coach down the road at Mississippi State, where he was in charge of men’s and women’s sprints, hurdles and relays. At MSU, Sherrer coached SEC scorer and All-Freshman member Rosealee Cooper in the 60-meter hurdles, who topped out at 8.15 in 2021.
Prior to his stay in Starkville, Sherrer worked with the sprints and jumps groups at Syracuse for the 2019 season. There, his assisted Eunice Boateng, Dasia Pressley, Alexis Crosby and Cheyenne Trigg, who broke the school record in the 4x100-meter relay at the ACC Outdoor Championships (45.17) then did so again at the NCAA East Prelims (44.36).
Sherrer also helped with hurdlers who scored at both the indoor and outdoor conference championships. Matt Moore finished third in the indoor 60-meter hurdles (7.83), while Richard Floyd and Chevis Armstead II were third (14.07) and seventh (14.38), respectively, in the 110-meter hurdles outdoors. Floyd went on to run at the NCAA East Prelims where he missed advancing to the national championships by 0.07 seconds.
Sherrer helped the Orange sign a gifted class headlined by the No. 1 ranked sprinter from New Jersey in Dennisha Page, as well as Aja Davis, who was sixth in the 60-meter at the New Balance National Indoor meet.
Sherrer spent the previous two seasons in 2017 and 2018 as a volunteer assistant at Florida, helping the Gator men along the way to national team titles outdoors in 2017 and indoors in 2018. The Gators also both the men’s and women’s team titles at the 2018 SEC Outdoor Championships.
At Florida, Sherrer worked with the Gators’ middle distance group, where he oversaw Andres Arroyo’s breakout 2017 season. Arroyo qualified for the 2017 IAAF World Championships after winning the 800-meter at the SEC Indoor Championships and scoring at the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the first time in his career. He also saw Justin Pacifico compete at the 2017 USATF Junior Championships, where he was fifth in the 800-meter.
Sherrer is a 2016 graduate of Ole Miss with a bachelor’s in social work, where he was a three-year letterwinner and competed his final season under Price-Smith in her first at the helm. In his time as a Rebel, he was a two-time NCAA Championships qualifier and three-time NCAA East Region qualifier, earning Second-Team All-American status outdoors in 2016 (12th place) and an Honorable Mention nod in 2015 (24th). His 800-meter PR of 1:47.34 earned him a trip to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he finished 27th in the nation. Sherrer was also a 2015 qualifier for the USATF Outdoor Championships.
He was a member of the 2015 SEC Champion distance medley relay team, the second of the still on-going streak of seven of the last eight DMR titles for the Ole Miss men. His indoor 800-meter PR of 1:50.15 from 2015 still ranks 14th all-time at Ole Miss, and his aforementioned outdoor best of 1:47.13 still sits fifth all-time. He was also a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll as a Rebel.
Sherrer, a native of Deerfield, New Jersey, began his collegiate career at Rend Lake Community College, where he was a two-time NJCAA All-American and won an NJCAA Championship on the 4x800-meter relay.
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