Chris Holtmann wife-American college basketball coach, Christopher Adam Holtmann was born on November 11, 1971, in Lexington, Kentucky in the United States of America.
Who is Chris Holtmann’s wife?
Chris Holtmann is married to Lori Bedi Holtmann. The couple have been married since 1999 and have been blessed with a beautiful daughter.
Who is Lori Bedi Holtman?
Lori Bedi Holtmann is the wife of the American college basketball coach, Chris Holtmann. She was born on April 9, 1970, in Gaithersburg, Indiana in the United States of America.
She graduated from Gordon College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Bible studies. Following her graduation, she attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, to earn her M.A.
Her career path has taken her to roles like Taylor University’s resident hall director, where she met her husband and Sterling College’s director of student development.
Chris Holtmann career
In 1997, Holtmann started his coaching career at Taylor University as a graduate assistant under Patterson. Before going back to his old school to work as an assistant coach, he worked as an assistant coach at Geneva College for the next year.
His coaching responsibilities at Taylor included recruitment coordination. The squad won its conference and was in the NAIA top 15 in both of his final two years there.
Holtmann was subsequently characterized by Patterson as “a bright, energetic, tireless worker who has been a high achiever his entire career.” Holtmann began working for Gardner-Webb in 2002.
He worked at the university for the following five seasons, serving as associate head coach for the final four of them after starting as an assistant coach. He developed a reputation as a potent recruiter and defensive strategist while attending Gardner-Webb.
Holtmann was John Groce’s first hire as the Ohio Bobcats’ head coach in 2008. He was in charge of Ohio’s wing development and helped to organize the team’s defensive operations.
Because of the wings’ outstanding play, Ohio’s squad led the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in three-point field goal percentage for the first time ever during his debut season.
Prior to Holtmann’s arrival, in the 2009–10 campaign, Gardner–Webb won eight games. The club had a 6–4 start in his debut season and ended up 11–21 with eight losses by three points or fewer. Gardner-Webb finished 12–20 the next season.
Gardner-Webb was picked by whom to place fifth out of the six Big South South Division teams for the 2012–13 campaign. Rather, Holtmann guided Gardner-Webb to a school-record 21 victories (since entering Division I in 2002), which included victories in ten of the team’s previous 11 regular-season contests.
Holtmann departed Gardner-Webb on July 15, 2013, to take a position as assistant coach under Brandon Miller at Butler. On October 2, 2014, following Miller’s medical leave of absence, Holtmann was named interim head coach after serving as an assistant coach for a year.
On June 9, 2017, Holtmann succeeded Thad Matta as Ohio State’s fourteenth head coach in school history. The lone home loss the Boilermakers had all season came against the Buckeyes, who defeated Michigan and No. 1 Michigan State at home in addition to winning on the road at No. 3 Purdue.
The Buckeyes led by Holtmann finished 20–15 in 2018–19. Before Houston eliminated the Buckeyes from the 2019 NCAA tournament, they defeated Iowa State as an 11-seed and moved on to the second round.
2020 Big Ten and NCAA Tournament cancellations resulted in the end of the 2019–20 season. With four wins against Top 10 opponents (Villanova, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Maryland), the Buckeyes finished with an overall record of 21–10. After scoring 11.9 points, Ohio State tied for fifth place in the Big Ten.
Overall, the 2020–21 Buckeyes had a 21–10 record in a season cut short due to COVID-19 concerns. Making it to the Big Ten Tournament title game in 2021, Ohio State tied for fifth place in the B1G (12–8).
For the last seven weeks of the season, Ohio State was ranked in the AP Top 10. This earned them a #2 seed in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, but they were defeated in the opening round by 15-seeded Oral Roberts.
The Buckeyes of 2021–22 finished with a 20–12 overall and a 12–8 conference record. The team was defeated by Villanova in the second round of the 2022 NCAA tournament.
After Thad Matta (who achieved this feat in his first twelve seasons, from 2005 to 2016), Holtmann became the second Ohio State coach to win 20 or more games in his first five seasons in Columbus.
Midway through the 2023–24 season, Chris Holtmann announced his departure from the program on February 14, 2024.
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