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Dan Oliver is the Director for all MDX North teams.

Coach Oliver is a teacher and 5th/6th grade lacrosse coach at the Mater Dei School in Bethesda. He has also served as a Varsity Assistant Coach at St. John’s College HS for the past 3 years. During Coach Oliver’s time at St. John’s the Cadets have made two Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) Championship appearances (’17, ’19), and were crowned WCAC Champions for the first time in school history in 2017.

Coach Oliver has been working for MDX in various roles for the past 6 years. As the MDX-R Elementary School Director, Coach Oliver has taken significant strides to improve player development at the youth level. Working closely with US Lacrosse, he made MDX-R the first club in Maryland to implement the Athlete Development Model with our 3rd and 4th grade players (already standard in hockey, soccer, and other Olympic sports). He was named OBGC Coach of The Year in 2014. Coach Oliver is also the Head Coach of the MDX-R JV Select Team.

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Erik Holt is currently an Assistant Lacrosse Coach at Division I Mount St. Mary’s University. Before the Mount, Holt spent three seasons at Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland. As head coach in 2018, he led the Saints to a 10-win season as they reached the Mid-Atlantic Conference Semifinals. Through recruitment and player development, Holt helped build Saint James to an annual contender during his tenure.

Holt has also worked with the U-19 US Indoor Lacrosse Team as an assistant coach and vice president of operations. He entered the coaching realm as an assistant at Urbana High School in 2006, and helped lead the team to three Maryland State Championships and a Final Four appearance. Holt, a former lacrosse and football player at Penn State, went on to play professional lacrosse for the Charlotte Copperheads and Philadelphia Wings. He was a member of the US Indoor Development Team from 2009-13, and represented Team USA’s Indoor squad at the BowHunter Cup in 2013.