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Watch: Bobby Holmes epitomizes Coastal Baseball, CCU spirit

May 1, 2019
Bobby Holmes is finishing up his final season of eligibility on the baseball team as a graduate student after missing the 2018 season to injury.Bobby Holmes has been a reliable closer for the baseball team throughout his active career at CCU.Bobby Holmes bought Rafiki during the 2016 national championship season.

Selfless. Relentless.

Those two words have become the essence of the Coastal Carolina University baseball team, embraced by players, coaches and staff alike. But perhaps nobody embodies those two words more than No. 31, Bobby Holmes. Ask any player, coach or staff member, and they will tell you Bobby is the epitome of Coastal Baseball. Bobby built his legacy at Coastal over a span of five years that included major highs - winning the University's first national championship in 2016 - and major lows - Tommy John surgery and sitting out the entire 2018 season. It was a legacy sealed even before he walked back onto the pitcher's mound in 2019 for his final season.

Read the full story "Beyond Baseball" in the 2019 spring/summer issue of the Coastal magazine.