HOLT’S WSU CAREER. SENIOR (2016): AVCA ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION...VolleyballMag.com All-America Honorable Mention Team...AVCA PACIFIC NORTH ALL-REGION FIRST TEAM...ALL-PAC-12 FIRST TEAM...named Best Attacker at Baylor Classic...MVP of Purdue Mortar Board Premier and Cougar Challenge All-Tournament team...2016 Preseason All-Pac-12 selection...played on Pac-12 All-Star team that toured China summer 2016...second year as team Tri-Captain...started out 2016 season by leading team to Purdue Mortar Board Premier title...tallied 48 kills, hitting .309 with 26 digs, three aces and nine blocks...at LBSU Mizuno Invite led team with 29 kills, 26 digs and nine blocks...20 kills, hit .311 with five blocks in 3-1 loss at No. 20 Purdue...led team in trio of sweeps at Cougar Challenge with 33 kills, hit .355, 16 digs, five blocks...landed 40 kills, 35 digs, six aces and five blocks at Baylor Classic...equaled career-high aces with four vs. Virginia...named Pac-12 Offensive Player of Week and espnW Player of the Week (Sept. 19-25) after opened Pac-12 season with team-high 39 kills, 21 digs in upset wins at No. 4 Washington and No. 9 UCLA...season-best 22 kills and hit .370 in NCAA First Rnd win over Marquette...2016 season stats: 3.78 kills per set is sixth-best in Pac-12 and 74th-best in NCAA...4.41 points per set is fifth-best in Pac-12 and 61st-best in NCAA...0.25 service aces per set is sixth-best in Pac-12...total points of 564.5 is 24th-best, total kills of 484 is 36th-best and total attacks of 1,313 is 37th-best in in NCAA...in Pac-12 ONLY stats: 3.75 kps is eighth, 4.36 pps is fifth...CAREER STATS: fifth Cougar in school history to reach 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career: 1,777 kills (2nd), 3.74 kills per set (5th), 5,074 attack attempts (1st), 123 aces (t-5th), 2,051.0 points (1st), 4.32 points per set (1st), 1,172 digs (7th), 31 block solos (t-18th), 240 block assists (15th), 271 total blocks (17th), 475 sets played (2nd), 128 matches played (t-6th), 49 double-doubles...in Pac-12/NCAA standings: led Pac-12 in career kills by an active player...third in the NCAA in career kills among active players...31st player in Pac-12 history to go over the 1,700-kills (1,777)...ranked 27th in career kills and t-34th in career aces (123) in Pac-12 all-time.
JUNIOR (2015): All-Pac-12 First Team...2015 team Tri-Captain...named MVP of the Cougar Challenge...named MVP of Idaho Volleyball Classic...named to Radford Highlander Invitational All-Tournament team...missed early October matches at No. 11 Stanford and Cal with injury...3.91 kills per set was sixth-best in Pac-12 and 62nd-best nationally...0.32 aces per set (35 aces) was fourth in Pac-12...4.51 points per set was seventh-best in Pac-12 and 52nd in NCAA...2.71 digs per set...served four aces vs. Utah Valley and four matches with three aces...13 double-doubles in 2015...in WSU career records: second in points scored with 1,486.5, sixth in kills with 1,293, fourth in attack attempts with 3,761, eighth in service aces with 91, and soon-to-be on the career top 10 is 883 digs.
SOPHOMORE (2014): Led team with 3.38 kps and 3.81 pps, both 10th-best in Pac-12...12 double-doubles this season...tallied 19 kills, hit .472 and had 10 digs in 3-2 come-from-behind win vs. Cal Poly...tallied three aces vs. No. 19 USC 10/3...23 kills, 12 digs and two aces versus No. 11 Oregon 11/9 after four blocks and 19 kills at No. 11 Oregon 10/10...career-high 21 digs at No. 20 USC 11/2...Holt’s rankings in WSU Single-Season Records include: kills - 5th, 479 (2013); attack attempts -3rd, 1316 (2013) and 10th, 1195 (2014); and points - 2nd, 557.5 (2013) and 10th, 442.0 (2014)...Career Stats: 871 kills; 2,511 attack attempts; 590 digs; and 999.5 points is eighth-best in WSU all-time records.
FRESHMAN (2013): AVCA PACIFIC NORTH REGION FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR...All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention...Pac-12 All-Freshman First Team...name pronounced kai-rah...MVP of Army Black Knights Invite (49 kills, .398 in three matches)...named Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Week Sept. 2-8 for Cougar Challenge (51 kills, .294, 5 aces, 39 digs, 6 blocks)...named MVP of Sam Houston State Invite (44 kills, .388 hpct, 27 digs, 8 blocks)...career-high 19 digs vs. Montana...26 kills (.308), plus 11 digs and six blocks in 3-2 win at Oregon State 9/27... named Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Week Oct. 28-Nov. 3 after leading team in 3-0 win over Utah and 3-2 loss to Colorado...named Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Week Nov. 11-17 after leading team in 3-2 win over No. 4 USC and 3-2 loss to UCLA...named Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Week Nov. 18-24 after a career-high 28 kills (.304) in 3-2 come-from-behind upset win at No. 23 California...tallied double-digit kills in 29 of 33 matches to date...3.89 kps was seventh-best in Pac-12, 53rd-best nationally...4.53 pps was seventh-best in Pac-12, 40th-best nationally...career-high four aces vs. Nevada...0.28 aces per set was eighth-best in Pac-12...12 double-double matches was 11th-best in Pac-12 this season and tied for sixth-best among all freshmen nationally...Holt’s rankings in WSU single-season records - kills: 5th - 479; attack attempts: 3rd - 1316; and points: 10th - 557.5.
HOLT’S HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. Earned varsity letters at Albany High in volleyball for coach Roger Worsely…three-time MVP of the Bay Shore Athletic League (BSAL)…led Albany HS Cougars team to two BSAL titles…team also won North Coast Section title in 2011…selected MVP of NCS and of North Coast Section Div. III…named to all-state Div. III team…two-time East Bay Sports Player of the Year…named to the 2012 Under Armour High School national All-America honorable mention team...ranked 44th in PrepVolleyball.com’s Top 100 players in the nation...named a PrepVolleyball.com Senior Ace…played on Payes Performance Volleyball Club for coach Jennifer Canevari Agresti, a WSU letterwinner (1995-97)…Payes team finished third out of 32 teams in the 17-Open field at the 2011 USA Junior National Championships….Holt one of 15 players selected to the USAV Junior National All-Tournament Team…also recruited by Colorado State, Dayton, Miami (FL), and TCU.
PERSONAL. Born in May 1995, in Berkeley, Calif…name pronounced kai-rah...father Howard is a fire captain who played basketball at UC Riverside and professionally in Malta…mother Patricia is retired…older brother Kacey…active in Black Student Union at Albany HS…enjoys cooking, fashion design and pets…majoring in General Studies at WSU.
