Joel Holst

Joel Holst is a former American baseball coach, and was the former head baseball coach of the Wartburg Knights.[1] Holst played college baseball and college football at Coe College from 1981 to 1985. He then served as the head coach at West Delaware high school in Manchester, Iowa before making a stop at Northwest Missouri State as an assistant. He got his first head coaching job at Loras College before arriving at Wartburg College in 1996.

Joel Holst
Biographical details
Alma materCoe College
Playing career
1981–1985Coe
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985-1988West Delaware High School
1989-1990Northwest Missouri State (Asst)
1991–1995Loras
1996–2023Wartburg
Head coaching record
Overall861–488–4
TournamentsNCAA: 21–28
IIAC/ARC: 63–33
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
16 IIAC/ARC (1997-2008, 2013, 2015-2017)

11 IIAC/ARC Tournament (1998-2003, 2005, 2008-2009, 2013, 2017)

2 NCAA Regional Champion (2000, 2005)
Awards
  • 11× IIAC/ARC Coach of the Year
  • 2x Central Region Coach of the year (2000, 2005)

Playing career

Holst played both baseball and football for Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was a three starter on both teams. He remains the career record holder for highest batting average at .403.[2] In 2011, Holst was inducted to the Coe College athletic hall of fame.[3]

Coaching career

Loras College

Holst began his first collegiate head coaching job at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa in 1991. He inherited a team with a losing record and finished the 1991 season 5-20. In just 3 years at the helm he would lead them to their first winning record in 12 years following the 1993 season. His best season would come the following year when they would go on to have their first 30 win season in program history.[4] He would leave the Loras Duhawks after 5 seasons with a 100-80 overall record.

Wartburg College

Joel Holst made the move to Wartburg in the fall of 1995. It took him just two years to reach the top of the conference. In just his second season, his 1997 Knights baseball team won 30 games and the conference regular season championship and a birth to the 1997 NCAA Regional. From there they would go on an unprecedented run winning 12 straight championships from 1997 to 2008.[5] In his time at wartburg he has won over 700 games and 16 championships, his most recent coming in 2017.[6] On May 12, 2018, Holst joined the 800 win club following an 8–4 win over his alma mater, Coe College in the IIAC tournament.[7] In 2019, he was inducted into the Iowa baseball coaches hall of fame.[8] Holst resigned from his position at Wartburg prior to the 2023 season.

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Loras Duhawks (Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1991–1995)
1991 Loras 5-205-11
1992 Loras 15-208-11
1993 Loras 22-1210-10
1994 Loras 31-1012-4
1995 Loras 27-188-8
Loras: 100-8043-44
Wartburg Knights (Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1996–2018)
1996 Wartburg 20-20-17-94th
1997 Wartburg 30–1616-41stNCAA Regional
1998 Wartburg 40-1020-41stNCAA Regional
1999 Wartburg 33-13-117-61stNCAA Regional
2000 Wartburg 41-922-21stCollege World Series
2001 Wartburg 37-9-120-21stNCAA Regional
2002 Wartburg 29-1516-51stNCAA Regional
2003 Wartburg 33-12-114-61stNCAA Regional
2004 Wartburg 30-1515-51st
2005 Wartburg 37-1118-31stCollege World Series
2006 Wartburg 27-1511-5T–1st
2007 Wartburg 28-1318-5T–1st
2008 Wartburg 27-1517-31stNCAA Regional
2009 Wartburg 28-2014-104thNCAA Regional
2010 Wartburg 25-1917-72nd
2011 Wartburg 26-1816-82nd
2012 Wartburg 23-2014–103rd
2013 Wartburg 35-1020-61stNCAA Regional
2014 Wartburg 25-1719-92nd
2015 Wartburg 33-1419–51stNCAA Regional
2016 Wartburg 34-1324-41stNCAA Regional
2017 Wartburg 33-1419-51stNCAA Regional
2018 Wartburg 26-1315-62nd
Wartburg Knights (American Rivers Conference) (2019–Present)
2019 Wartburg 13-269-157th
2020 Wartburg 9-10–0Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021 Wartburg 14-2812-206th
2022 Wartburg 25-2112-126th
Wartburg: 761-408416-176
Total:861-488–4

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References
  1. https://www.kwwl.com/sports/wartburg-college-baseball-coach-resigns-ahead-of-beginning-of-season/article_cdf79ae8-b47c-11ed-9d33-4f11270e4237.html
  2. https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/coeathletics.com/documents/2022/7/26/Coe_Baseball_Record_Books.pdf
  3. "Coe Hall of Fame adds six". www.thegazette.com.
  4. "Baseball Coaching Records". Loras College Athletics.
  5. "Wartburg NOT the IIAC baseball tourney favorite". www.thegazette.com.
  6. nick.petaros@wcfcourier.com, NICK PETAROS. "College baseball: Wartburg secures third consecutive IIAC title". Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.
  7. "Holst Earns 800th Career Win as Knights Go 1-1 Saturday". Wartburg College Athletics.
  8. https://www.iowahsbca.net/hall_of_fame_2023
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