Holocher attended Santa Clara University where he played for future national team coach Steve Sampson from 1988 to 1991.
The owner decided to take the team to a lower division and so in 1993 the renamed San Jose Hawks spent one year in the USISL.
The San Jose Hawks won their division and went to the Sizzlin’ Six tournament where Holocher was named MVP.
Holocher moved to Europe where he signed with Austrian First Division club Admira Wacker.
[2] The Strikers folded at the end of the season and Holocher moved back west to the Monterey Bay Jaguars (USISL) which played in Santa Clara, California.
In 1998, the Chicago Fire of MLS picked Holocher in the second round (sixteenth overall) of the Supplemental Draft but did not sign him.
In January 2006, Holocher left UC Santa Cruz to become the head coach at NCAA Division I Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.