Eric Holtz

Eric Holtz (born December 5, 1965) is an American former manager of the Israel national baseball team. He was the assistant coach of gold-medal-winning Team USA in baseball at the 2013 Maccabiah Games, and the Team USA head coach for the gold-medal-winning Under-18 baseball team at the 2017 Maccabiah Games. He was the head coach of the first baseball team to represent Israel at the Olympics.

Biography Holtz was born in New York, New York, and raised in the Bronx, New York.

Holtz founded and is the owner of Game On 13, a baseball and softball strength and sports conditioning and skills development training facility in Elmsford in Westchester County in New York State.

His wife is Traci Holtz, and they have three children.

Playing career

He attended Dean College, where Holtz played baseball for two years. He played third base and pitcher for the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox of the Israel Baseball League as a player-coach in 2007, during which time he roomed with player Nate Fish. He won the Commissioner’s Award for Distinguished Service.

Coaching career He was an assistant baseball coach at Manhattanville College from 2004 to 2007, and then the hitting coach at Westchester Community College from 2008 to 2015. The Israel Association of Baseball named Holtz as the manager for the 2020 Olympic Qualifiers.