Coleman enters his 12th season as the Cowboys' head coach, making him the second longest-tenured head coach at both Hardin-Simmons and among baseball coaches in the American Southwest Conference.

The Cowboys won their first ASC West title in 2008 and advanced to the ASC playoffs for the fourth straight year.
In his first 11 seasons, Coleman has posted a 261-201 record and he is the school's all-time leader in wins. He has led the Cowboys to the American Southwest Conference Playoffs on seven different occasions, including finals appearances in 2001 and 2005. He has coached 49 All-American Southwest Conference selections and three All-Americans.

His team has posted a cumulative GPA of over 3.0 each of the last three semesters as he has a simple philosophy on academics, if you can’t do both then we will eliminate baseball from the equation.

Coleman became Hardin-Simmons' 22nd head coach in the 67-season history of the program on June 18, 1997. He joined the Cowboys after seven years in the high school coaching ranks, in which his teams went to the playoffs five times. He led Wolfforth Frenship to the 1993 4A state title game and went 70-30 in three seasons, before moving to Odessa Permian High School. His Panther teams went to the playoffs twice.

Coleman was a standout third baseman and catcher at Lubbock Christian University from 1983 to 1985. He helped the Chaps win the NAIA World Series in 1983 and was honorable-mention All-American in 1983. He transferred to LCU after one year at Oklahoma University, where he earned a scholarship after a stellar career at Monterey High School in Lubbock. In 1981, he helped the Plainsmen to the Class 5A state title and, in the process, set four batting records that still stand today.

Coleman earned a B.S. in Secondary Education from LCU in 1985. He was hired as an assistant baseball and football coach at Coronado High School in Lubbock in 1986, where he remained until 1990. Coleman, who was inducted into the LCU Hall of Honor in 1996, married the former Lisa Everett in 1982.

They have two sons, Chad, 25, and Brad, 23. Brad is a graduate assistant for the Cowboys and Chad is a football and baseball coach and history teacher in the Brownwood School District. Both played baseball for their father at HSU.

Holcomb enters his 10th season as the Cowboys’ assistant coach. He handles the Cowboy infielders, hitters and also coaches third base. He also is in charge of maintaining Hunter Field as well as the other HSU outdoor athletic facilities in the offseason.

Holcomb came to the Cowboys from Abilene Christian, where he served three seasons as an assistant coach.

Holcomb has helped lead the Cowboys to six ASC playoff appearances and is instrumental in the everyday operation of Cowboy baseball. He began his career as an assistant under Steve Coleman at Frenship High School.

The Snyder native earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and health from Lubbock Christian in 1991. He was also an all-conference player at LCU for three seasons -- 1988, 1990 and 1991.

He earned a master’s degree in school administration from Abilene Christian. At ACU, he helped lead the Wildcats to a Lone Star Conference runner-up finish in both the regular season and conference tournament his last season there. Holcomb and his wife Heather, who teaches in the Abilene Independent School District, have two sons Hunter (13) and Bryson (11).