Staff Directory
Jonathan Holmes
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Jonathan Holmes joins John Groce's inaugural coaching staff for the 2026-2027 Charleston men's basketball season.
Holmes comes to Charleston after four seasons as the Associate Head Coach at Miami (OH), where he helped lead the RedHawks to an undefeated regular season in 2025-26. Holmes played a key role in boosting Miami’s offense, helping raise their scoring average from 70.6 points per game in 2023-24 to 80.6 points per game in 2024-25, the second-highest scoring average in the MAC. Miami also led the conference in both overall field goal percentage (48.1%) and three-point shooting percentage (39.7%). Additionally, the Red and White set program records for total points in a season (2,740), field goals made (985), three-pointers made (363) and total assists (550).
In the 2023-24 season, Holmes helped Miami become one of the top defenses in the MAC, keeping opponents to 70.0 points (tied for second in the MAC) with an average field goal percentage of 42.8% (third in the MAC). Offensively, the RedHawks led the entire MAC with 14.44 assists per game. The Red and White also ranked third in the conference with 8.1 threes per game with a 36.1% field goal percentage.
Holmes is familiar with the CAA, having served as an assistant coach at both Elon and William & Mary prior to his time at Miami (OH). While at Elon, Holmes was named a top three assistant coach in the CAA by Stadium in 2020 and a top 50 mid-major assistant coach nationally by Silver Waves Media that same year.
Prior to joining William & Mary, Holmes served as an assistant coach at the Division II and NAIA levels. Holmes spent two seasons at Francis Marion in Florence, S.C., and one as an assistant coach and head junior varsity coach at Montreat College in 2005-06. Montreat compiled a 22-10 mark and won both the Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles while reaching the second round of the NAIA Division II national tournament. Holmes has also served as a counselor at numerous North Carolina Men's Basketball Camps, as well as at his own Jonathan Holmes Basketball Camp in Bloomington, Ind., which started in 2002.
Holmes is a 2003 graduate of North Carolina, where he was a four-year letterman on the basketball team and graduated with a degree in communications with a 3.6 grade point average. He played in 76 career games and recorded nearly a two-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio. A member of UNC teams that advanced to the 2000 Final Four, appeared in the 2003 NIT postseason tournament and won both the 1999 Maui Invitational and the 2002 Preseason NIT, Holmes was named to the 2003 ACC All-Academic Team.
He is married to his wife, Jennifer, and has two children, Lillie and Lola.
Holmes comes to Charleston after four seasons as the Associate Head Coach at Miami (OH), where he helped lead the RedHawks to an undefeated regular season in 2025-26. Holmes played a key role in boosting Miami’s offense, helping raise their scoring average from 70.6 points per game in 2023-24 to 80.6 points per game in 2024-25, the second-highest scoring average in the MAC. Miami also led the conference in both overall field goal percentage (48.1%) and three-point shooting percentage (39.7%). Additionally, the Red and White set program records for total points in a season (2,740), field goals made (985), three-pointers made (363) and total assists (550).
In the 2023-24 season, Holmes helped Miami become one of the top defenses in the MAC, keeping opponents to 70.0 points (tied for second in the MAC) with an average field goal percentage of 42.8% (third in the MAC). Offensively, the RedHawks led the entire MAC with 14.44 assists per game. The Red and White also ranked third in the conference with 8.1 threes per game with a 36.1% field goal percentage.
Holmes is familiar with the CAA, having served as an assistant coach at both Elon and William & Mary prior to his time at Miami (OH). While at Elon, Holmes was named a top three assistant coach in the CAA by Stadium in 2020 and a top 50 mid-major assistant coach nationally by Silver Waves Media that same year.
Prior to joining William & Mary, Holmes served as an assistant coach at the Division II and NAIA levels. Holmes spent two seasons at Francis Marion in Florence, S.C., and one as an assistant coach and head junior varsity coach at Montreat College in 2005-06. Montreat compiled a 22-10 mark and won both the Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles while reaching the second round of the NAIA Division II national tournament. Holmes has also served as a counselor at numerous North Carolina Men's Basketball Camps, as well as at his own Jonathan Holmes Basketball Camp in Bloomington, Ind., which started in 2002.
Holmes is a 2003 graduate of North Carolina, where he was a four-year letterman on the basketball team and graduated with a degree in communications with a 3.6 grade point average. He played in 76 career games and recorded nearly a two-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio. A member of UNC teams that advanced to the 2000 Final Four, appeared in the 2003 NIT postseason tournament and won both the 1999 Maui Invitational and the 2002 Preseason NIT, Holmes was named to the 2003 ACC All-Academic Team.
He is married to his wife, Jennifer, and has two children, Lillie and Lola.
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