Donna Holyman is a driving factor in the success of the Quest Soccer Camp Program. Donna brings great collegiate playing experience, coaching experience, and national team experience to the Quest Soccer Camp. Donna recently served as an assistant coach at The University of South Florida Women's Soccer Team, and prior to that was an assistant women's soccer team coach at Barry University, working with all aspects of the program including recruiting, planning practices and games, and NCAA compliance.
She spent six years as an assistant coach at the University of Kansas (KU). She was primarily responsible for all aspects of recruiting for the KU soccer program. She was instrumental in bringing highly-regarded incoming classes to Kansas.
A top player at both Hartford and Colorado as a collegian from 1994-97, she started all 74 games of her career, scoring 27 goals with 17 assists. She led the Hawks to back-to-back North Atlantic Conference titles and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances before transferring to Colorado as a senior. In her one season in Boulder, she paced the Buffaloes with six goals and four assists in 18 games that season.
In addition, her playing experience included stints with the Under-20 Canadian Women’s National Team and the U-23 Ontario Team which competed in the 1993 World University Games.
Away from the collegiate coaching scene, Holyman was also the head coach of the Plantation Eagles U-18 girls’ soccer team for two seasons in Florida and for six years was an assistant coach for the U-14 and U-18 Olympic Development Program in Overland Park, Kansas. Donna is a native of Burlington, Ontario, and she received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Colorado in 1998. She earned her master’s in education (sports administration) at KU in 2004. Holyman has her “B” license from the United State Soccer Federation.
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