Halda is a graduate of Torrey Pines High School in 1976 and received his B.A. in Physical Education from San Diego State University in 1981. Halda joined Palomar's men's golf coaching staff as an assistant in 2002. He's the running backs coach and, previously, was quarterbacks coach in Palomar's highly-successful football program, also since 2002.

Halda has an SCGA Index of 3.1.

After an outstanding prep career at Torrey Pines, Halda was a quarterback at San Diego State from 1976-1980. He was the only Aztec starting quarterback to beat both Florida State and Miami, and still appears on several SDSU Top 10 passing lists.

Halda becomes the fifth head men's golf coach in Palomar history, following in the successful footsteps of the late Ward "Rusty" Myers, Mack Wiebe, Bob Lusky and Jonas Crawford. The Comets have produced two state community college individual champions, future PGA Tour golfer Mark Wiebe in 1977 and Scott Oxandabore in 2001. Wiebe went on to play for San Jose State before turning professional. Oxandabore went on to lead USC to the 2002 Pac-10 Conference championship.

Halda has lived in San Diego County for 38 years and currently is a resident of  San Marcos. He has two sons, Aaron, a former volleyball player at Palomar, and Nathan.