Jawaan Holmes is in his first season at the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2024-25, serving as an assistant coach for the Skyhawk men's basketball program.

Holmes joins the Skyhawks from Florida Tech, a NCAA Division II program in Melbourne, Fla. He wrapped up his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Panthers under the program’s all-time wins leader Billy Mims in 2023-24. Florida Tech became nationally ranked and finished .500 or better in each of Holmes’ four years on staff – including a combined 35-23 record over the past two seasons where the Panthers boasted the top defense in the Sunshine State Conference in back-to-back campaigns. That included a 19-11 record in 2022-23 as the 19 victories were the most for the program since 2011-12.
           
Hailing from Shepherdstown, W.Va., Holmes began his coaching career with the semi-pro Winchester Storm out of the American Professional Basketball League. He was an assistant coach at Jefferson High School (his alma mater) before serving as head coach at Cocoa Beach High School in Florida, delivering 10 wins in his rookie campaign after the program had combined to win just eight games in the previous three seasons. For his efforts, he finished second in the Space Coast Conference Coach of the Year voting. He followed that with a playoff victory in his second and final year at with the Minutemen program in 2019-20.
           
Coming out of high school, Holmes ultimately spurned several basketball scholarship offers to play baseball at Fairmont State in West Virginia – where he garnered All-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors and All-Conference Academic accolades. He eventually went on to play professional basketball with the Georgia Prowl of the American Basketball Association.
           
Holmes graduated cum laude with a degree in business administration and management from Fairmont State in 2008.