Clarion’s Holden Earns First-Team PSAC Honors in Volleyball


LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) announced its volleyball postseason award winners on Thursday, with Clarion’s Julia Holden earning First Team All-PSAC honors for the second straight year.

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Holden finished off her already stellar career with perhaps her best season, ranking as one of the top attackers not just in the conference, but also the country. She finished her season ranked second in NCAA Division II with averages of 4.66 kills and 5.32 points per set, and her 489 total kills ranked first in the PSAC and sixth in the country as well. She set the NCAA single-match high in 2019 with 31 kills in a four-set match, doing so against Fairmont State on Sept. 20, and Holden also had the second-highest single-match kills totals in a three-set (25 vs. Notre Dame College on Sept. 21) and a five-set (32 vs. East Stroudsburg on Sept. 27) match. Earlier this month she was recognized as a CoSIDA Academic All-District selection for the first time in her career with a 3.77 GPA in Nursing.

Her accolades also rank among the best in a Clarion career as well. Holden finished her career with 1,439 career kills, the fifth-highest total in program history and just four kills behind the fourth-place holder. Her 489 total kills ranked sixth for a single-season in program history, and she is one of only two Golden Eagles to top 460 kills in multiple years. Holden wraps up her career with three straight all-conference selections, including a Third Team finish in 2017 and a First Team nod last year.


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