Women's Basketball
Neil Holmes
- Title:
- Director of Operations
- Email:
- neil.holmes@csun.edu
Neil Holmes enters his first season as director of basketball operations to the CSUN Women's Basketball team in 2024-25.
Holmes brings to CSUN over 20 years of sports business experience, leading complex teams in sales and entertainment management. He has also worked for a decade in government affairs where he has consulted elected officials and companies with community development.
Over the past year, Holmes has served as minority owner and president of operations of the Santa Ana Thunder of The Basketball League. Since 2016, he has served as a government affairs consultant for the Hutts Group, LLC, where he has cultivated and strengthen relationships with elected officials, political staff and civic community decision makers in Southern California. Holmes was also economic development manager and special assistant to Mayor Aja Brown in the City of Compton from 2013-16.
Holmes was as assistant varsity coach of the Marlborough School girls basketball team in Los Angeles from 2016-20, while he also was an assistant varsity coach at Polytechnic School in Pasadena in 2021.
Holmes has worked for the Los Angeles Sparks as a youth basketball program director from 2013-16, overseeing all inner-city community basketball programming, while he held the director of ticketing and service position with the Sparks from 2012-13.
Prior to the Sparks, Holmes was the team president of the NBA Development League's New Mexico Thunderbirds in Rio Rancho, N.M. from 2010-12.
Holmes graduated from High Point University, earning a degree in Sports Management.
Holmes brings to CSUN over 20 years of sports business experience, leading complex teams in sales and entertainment management. He has also worked for a decade in government affairs where he has consulted elected officials and companies with community development.
Over the past year, Holmes has served as minority owner and president of operations of the Santa Ana Thunder of The Basketball League. Since 2016, he has served as a government affairs consultant for the Hutts Group, LLC, where he has cultivated and strengthen relationships with elected officials, political staff and civic community decision makers in Southern California. Holmes was also economic development manager and special assistant to Mayor Aja Brown in the City of Compton from 2013-16.
Holmes was as assistant varsity coach of the Marlborough School girls basketball team in Los Angeles from 2016-20, while he also was an assistant varsity coach at Polytechnic School in Pasadena in 2021.
Holmes has worked for the Los Angeles Sparks as a youth basketball program director from 2013-16, overseeing all inner-city community basketball programming, while he held the director of ticketing and service position with the Sparks from 2012-13.
Prior to the Sparks, Holmes was the team president of the NBA Development League's New Mexico Thunderbirds in Rio Rancho, N.M. from 2010-12.
Holmes graduated from High Point University, earning a degree in Sports Management.
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