St. Peter's Basketball Coach Holloway Hired By Alma Mater Seton Hall

JERSEY CITY, NJ — After coaching the underdog St. Peter's University Peacocks men's basketball team into the NCAA championships this month, Coach Shaheen Holloway was hired Thursday as the new head coach of Seton Hall University, from which he graduated in 2000.

Holloway is a former associate head coach and standout student-athlete at the school in South Orange.

"Holloway's teams in Jersey City played with a toughness and intensity that mirrored the way he played the game at The Hall," noted a Seton Hall spokesperson on Thursday, "where he holds the program record with 681 career assists and was inducted into the Seton Hall Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012."

According to the school, he becomes the first Seton Hall graduate to lead the men's basketball program since all-time great Richie Regan '53 led the Pirates from 1960-70.

"I am incredibly excited to welcome Shaheen Holloway and his family home to Seton Hall," said Athletic Director Bryan Felt. "Shaheen is a winner in every sense of the word, and he is not only an incredible coach, but also an incredible educator of young men. He works tirelessly to put
his student-athletes in a position to succeed."

"Today is a day of joy and celebration at Seton Hall University as we welcome Shaheen Holloway
and his family back home," said Dr. Joseph E. Nyre, President of Seton Hall University. "Coach Holloway is a dynamic leader and a proud alumnus of our great University with great affinity for our community."

"Life has a way of coming full circle," Holloway said. "Seton Hall is near and dear to my heart; it's where I became a man, where I met the love ofmy life, where I spent countless hours honing my crafts as a basketball player and a basketball coach

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