Staff Directory
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- Tight Ends Coach
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Adam Hollis, a former assistant coach at Dartmouth who worked one season with Roger Hughes while he was the Big Green offensive coordinator, is in his second season at Princeton. He assumes the role of offensive line coach after spending his first season as the tight ends coach. Hollis assisted former line coach Gregg Perry with the Princeton offensive line during his first year.
Last season, Hollis guided an offensive line that paved the way for junior Jordan Culbreath to record the fourth-highest single-season rushing total in Princeton football history (1,206 yards). Culbreath was the only league offensive player to earn unanimous first-team All-Ivy honors, while classmate and three-year starter Mark Paski earned second-team All-Ivy honors. Paski will lead an experienced offensive line that could become the strength of the Tiger offense in 2009; Paski, J.P. Makrai, Marc Daou and Andrew Hauser are all senior linemen who will come into the season with starting experience.
Hollis joined the Dartmouth staff in 1999 as the tight ends coach and eventually coached the Big Green running backs after current Princeton offensive lineman Dave Rackovan came to Princeton. Under Hollis’ guidance, Mike Gratch became Dartmouth’s only running back to average 100 yards per game since the 1992 season. He also coordinated Dartmouth’s recruiting efforts and helped land eventual captains from the 2006 and 2007 teams, including first-team All-Ivy selection Justin Cottrell.
Prior to his arrival at Dartmouth, he coached the tight ends at Rhode Island, where he worked with current executive director of the Black Coaches Association Floyd Keith. Hollis also worked with former Penn offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Dick Maloney at the University of Chicago. Hollis’ coaching career began at Concordia University, where he coached the secondary.
A graduate of the University at Albany in 1990, Hollis was a defensive back before his playing career ended after one year due to a back injury. He began his coaching career as an assistant at his high school alma mater, Walt Whitman, in Huntington, N.Y.
Hollis has a wife Laura and two daughters, Carolyn Shea and Grace.
RECRUITING AREAS
Florida, Maryland, New Jersey (Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset counties), Virginia and Washington D.C.
