James Pollihan is a former U.S. soccer player who was an outstanding collegiate forward with Quincy University but moved to defense as a professional.
Quincy played in the NAIA where it dominated the men's soccer competition from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
In 1970, Pollihan's first year with the team, Quincy, went to the championship game where it fell to Davis and Elkins College.
The Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League also drafted Pollihan, but he signed with the Lancers.
He resigned from the Blast on August 16, 1991, in order to become the head coach of the Harrisburg Heat.
In 1991, the Harrisburg Heat an expansion franchise with the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) hired Pollihan as the club's first coach.
After handing over the coaching reins to Richard Chinapoo in 1999, Pollihan moved into the team's front office as the Vice President of Soccer Operations, a position he held until January 2003.