Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

Lenoir-Rhyne University Athletics

Shena Hollar

Profile B

  • Entering her 27th year as head coach 
  • Owns 1,063 all-time wins and has a career winning percentage of .714 at Lenoir-Rhyne
  • Seven-time South Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year
  • Won 12 regular season SAC Championships and 10 SAC Tournament titles
  • Advanced to 17 NCAA Tournaments including three trips to the NCAA Southeast Super Regionals (2010, 2011, and 2024)
  • Advanced to the NCAA Division ll Softball Championship for the first time in LR history (2024)
  • Never had a winning percentage below .500.
Line

Record B

       Year: Overall, SAC, Postseason
        at Lenoir-Rhyne

        2025: 38-19, 16-8, NCAA Tournament
        2024: 52-18, 16-8, NCAA Tournament, Southeast Regional Title
        2023: 38-14, 16-8, NCAA Tournament
        2022: 38-16, 18-6, NCAA Tournament
        2021: 17-16, 13-11
        2020: 20-4, 2-0, N/A
        2019: 26-19, 9-10
        2018: 45-10, 19-1, NCAA Tournament
        2017: 46-13, 16-4, NCAA Tournament
        2016: 48-13, 20-2, NCAA Tournament
        2015: 32-19, 12-10
        2014: 40-15, 16-6, NCAA Tournament
        2013: 37-16, 11-7, NCAA Tournament
        2012: 48-13, 14-4, NCAA Tournament
        2011: 45-10, 16-2, NCAA Tournament Super Regional
        2010: 53-9, 15-1, NCAA Tournament Super Regional
        2009: 38-13, 11-5, NCAA Tournament
        2008: 42-14, 12-2, NCAA Tournament
        2007: 48-10, 10-4, NCAA Tournament
        2006: 52-12-1, 12-2, NCAA Tournament
        2005: 35-16-1, 8-6
        2004: 38-16, 10-4
        2003: 28-15, 9-3
        2002: 41-10, 11-3, NCAA Tournament
        2001: 32-21, 6-7
        2000: 39-16, 13-3
        TOTALS: 1,016-367-2, 299-111, 17 NCAA Tournament appearances

        at Newberry
        1999: 28-28, 12-2
        1998: 17-33, 4-10
        TOTALS: 45-61, 16-12

        CAREER TOTALS: 1,063-428-2, 315-123, 17 NCAA Tournament appearancesLine

Accolades B

  • Reached nine straight NCAA Tournaments from 2006-2014
  • Set the program record with 26 straight winning seasons
  • Set the program mark with 53 wins in 2010
  • The 20 game winning streak in 2017 is the longest in program history
  • Bears have tossed 22 of their 24 all-time no-hitters under Hollar and all three of the program's perfect games
  • Have won 33 NCAA Tournament games under Hollar
  • Since the start of 2009, the Bears have been nationally ranked for 134 weeks, including 30 consecutive weeks from 2010-12.
  • Bears finished the 2024 season ranked No. 4 in the NFCA Poll, their highest in program history.
Line
Awards B
  • LR's Coaching Staff in 2024 was selected as the ATEC / NFCA Southeast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year
  • 11 players have gone on to be named All-Americans under Hollar's guidance including Sarah Atkins and Kat Rivers earning First Team All-American honors in 2010 and Julia Mardigian in 2024.
  • Hollar has coached 157 players to All-Conference accolades and 83 to All-Region honors
  • In her 26 seasons, Hollar has had nine SAC Pitchers of the Year, nine SAC Tournament MVPs, four SAC Players of the Year and six SAC Freshmen of the Year
  • Hollar has also had four players selected as Academic All-Americans including Talon LaClair who became the program's first First Team Academic All-American in history in 2020
  • Sarah Kenley was selected as the D2CCA Regional Player of the Year in 2017
  • Hollar won her 800th game at LR on March 13, 2019
  • Earned her 1,000th career win against Mars Hill on 3/24/24
Line
78
  • Hollar spent two seasons at Newberry before her time at LR
  • Led Newberry to a share of SAC Regular Season title in 1999
Line
Personal B
  • Married to husband David and the couple reside in Taylorsville, N.C.
  • Earned undergraduate degree from Wingate in 1996 and master's degree from Morehead State University in 1997.

Sponsors