Austin Holton was joined the Bison football staff as defensive backs coach on July 18, 2022. He enters his third season on Bison Hill. 

Holton has elevated the Oklahoma Baptist secondary to one of the most prolific position groups in the Great American Conference. In 2023, OBU surrendered just 146.27 passing yards per game and finished the season as the No. 1 ranked passing offense in the conference. The Bison only gave up 137 completions (the least in the GAC), brought down seven interceptions, and set a new program record (DII era) for pass break ups (38).

Cornerback Tainique Taylor was selected to the All-GAC second team, the first Bison defensive back all-conference honoree in school history. Taylor broke multiple program records, which included setting a new mark for number of pass break ups (15) that finished ranked sixth in the country. Additionally, Taylor and Chase Whitebear garnered the league's GAC Player of the Week award once each. 
 
Holton came to Shawnee following a two-year stint at Sterling College in Kansas, serving as the defensive backs coach and special team coordinator. In 2021, he steered a secondary that produced 300-plus tackles and ranked fifth in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference in interceptions (13). In his special teams role, Holton's field-goal unit went 49-49 in extra points, which ranked first in the conference.

Holton produced four All-KCAC selections (2 Defensive, 2 Special Teams) and an AFCA-NAIA All-American in his 2021 campaign.

Prior to Sterling, Holton was the wide receivers coach at Alleghany College in 2019 and before then, a graduate assistant football coach at Olivet Nazarene.

At ONU, Holton worked primarily with the corner backs and served as the junior varsity defensive coordinator, while also serving as the junior varsity defensive coordinator and strength & conditioning coach assistant.

At Olivet, he was a four-year varsity letter winner in both football and track & field for the Tigers, earning all-conference honors in track & field and ONU's Who's Who Award in 2016.

Holton graduated from ONU with both a Bachelor's in Sports, Fitness and Recreation in 2016 and his Masters of Business Administration in 2019.

A native of Nampa, Idaho, he attended and graduated from Nampa Christian High School. He and his wife Alyssa live in Shawnee. They recently welcomed their first child, Ariana