Who are Hollin Pierce's parents?

Hollin Pierce is a former collegiate football offensive tackle player for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. He was awarded the 98th Best College Football Player award by On3 and received a nomination for the Burlsworth Award. Being 6 feet 7 inches, Pierce is disciplined with four penalties with around 3100 snaps per PFF. In the 2024 season, he played all games as a left tackle, which included second-team All-Big Ten. During the 2023 season he continued playing as a left tackle for the Scarlet Knights and was called mentioned All-Big Ten Conference. (via Rutgers)

Pierce played as a full starter in 2021 and competed at 24 starts for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. He received a nomination for the Burlsworth Trophy in 2022. Pierce was called the most improved offensive player of the team during the spring practice season in 2021. He helped the team to 28.9 points per game in 2024 and 4975 yards of total offence, as per Sports Reference.

Hollin Pierce’s parents

Michael Pierce and Tara Pierce are the parents of Hollin Pierce, as. His parents helped their son enrol at the K-12 Cambridge School located in Pennington. The couple made sure that their son kept practising basketball and also pursued other sporting activities. However, there is no information about his father's profession on the internet.

Pierce shared in an interview that, "Luckily, my mom and dad, when I was very young, kept me off the streets and always kept me in sports and stuff like that. My mom helped fight to get me into private school. So … I was very blessed to have parents like that to always have a shadow over me and just make sure I’m doing the right thing.”

However, Hollin Pierce’s mother, Tara Pierce, passed away at the age of 49 in the summer of 2012. Pierce was 11 years of age when his mother passed. Pierce said, “Transitioning from middle school to high school, my mom passed away, that was hard,” Pierce said. “I would say, really, when that happened, I gained so much weight. I was 455, so having all that weight on me was definitely hard. I couldn’t do the things I really wanted to do. It was a health hazard, too. That was really scary for me.” (via The Trentonian)