Nick Holt

Biography

Nick Holt, a veteran defensive coordinator with more than 30 years of experience at the collegiate level, joined head coach Keith Patterson’s staff in 2022 and enters his fourth season with the Wildcats. He has served as associate head coach, co-defensive coordinator, and defensive line coach. Last year, he coached three players – Jerry Lawson, David Oke, and Kaghen Roach – to All-United Athletic Conference honors. Lawson was selected to the first team, while Oke and Roach were each selected to the second team. The Wildcats finished 9-5, won the UAC championship, qualified for the FCS playoffs, and beat Northern Arizona, 24-0, at Wildcat Stadium in program history’s first FCS playoff game. Before joining the Wildcat coaching staff, Holt spent the 2021 season as an offensive assistant coach at Texas Tech, where he met and worked with Patterson, the Red Raiders’ defensive coordinator. Before going to Tech, he spent the 202- season as the head coach of the Varese Skorpions, a professional team in Italy. From 2017-19, he was the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Purdue, where he helped lead the Boilermarkers to two bowl appearances and memorable wins over No. 2 Ohio State and No. 19 Iowa in 2018. In the four seasons before, he coached at Western Kentucky as the defensive coordinator, associate head coach, and interim head coach. In December 2016, he was the Hilltoppers’ interim head coach, leading the team to a 51-31 win over Memphis in the Boca Raton Bowl. Holt h