Eric Holtz (born December 5, 1965) is an American former manager of the Israel national baseball team.[1] 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 1st and Only Olympic Baseball team to represent Israel.
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.[4][5][6]
His wife is Traci Holtz, and they have three children.[7]
Holtz was the assistant coach of gold-medal-winning Team USA in baseball at the 2013 Maccabiah Games.[1][9] He was then the Team USA head coach for the gold-medal-winning Under-18 baseball team at the 2017 Maccabiah Games.[1]
In September 2019, he managed Team Israel to a fourth-place finish at the 2019 European Baseball Championship in Germany. Among the teams Team Israel defeated was Team Germany. Holtz noted: "Going to Germany, a country that we wouldn’t have been allowed in 80 years ago, and not only to go there but perform there and defeat them on their own land, yeah, it was a little bit more (meaningful) once the game was over."[3] He also managed the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[15][16]