11 Cassandra Holmes
Cassandra Holmes
  • Height:
    6-0
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    Ellington, Conn.
  • High School:
    Ellington
  • Position:
    MB
  • Major:
    Finance
  • m
    29
  • k/s
    2.26
  • h %
    .270
  • a/s
    0.06
  • b/s
    0.71
  • sa/s
    0.25
  • d/s
    0.46

Bio

Career Highs:

Kills: 17, multiple times
Service Aces: 5, multiple times
Blocks: 7 (9/14/19 at Smith)

2018 (Junior Year): Appeared in 29 matches...Collected 242 kills, 60 digs, totaled 49 blocks..averaged 2.18 kills per set.

2017 (Sophomore Year): Appeared in 28 matches, averaging 1.61 kills per set (95 total sets)...posted two 10+ kill efforts, with a career-high of 13 coming against Suffolk (9/9)...registered career-high in service aces (3) at Framingham State (9/1).

2016 (Freshman Year): Appeared in 29 matches, averaging 1.97 digs and 1.36 kills per set (92 total sets)...posted five 10+ dig efforts, with a season-high of 13 coming against Roger Williams (10/4)...registered at least five kills on 9 occasions, including a season-high 11 against Mount Holyoke (10/11). 

High School:  2016 graduate of Ellington High School, where she played four years of varsity volleyball, three years of varsity basketball, and four years of varsity softball...earned Team MVP, All-NCCC, and All-State honors for volleyball...played club volleyball for Husky.

Personal: Born on August 7, 1998 in Hartford, Connecticut to Charissa and Curt Holmes...has a brother named Curtis...father played baseball at American International College...Favorites: TV Show – New Girl; Pro Team – Boston Red Sox; Athlete – Andrew Benintendi; Musician- Post Malone; Food – Chicken Parm...majoring in finance.

What I Like Best About WNE: “The close knit community”

  

Player Profile

Recent Games
Oct 22 at Gordon L, 3-2
Oct 24 Clark University L, 3-0
Oct 26 Roger Williams L, 3-1
Oct 30 Wentworth L, 3-1
Nov 2 at Endicott L, 3-0
Nov 5 at Roger Williams L, 3-1
  Overall Conf
Matches 29 7
Sets 114 27
Kills 258 73
Kills per set 2.26 2.70
Errors 93 26
Total Attacks 612 166
Hitting Percentage .270 .283
Assists 7 2
Assists per set 0.06 0.07
Service Aces 28 6
Service Errors 33 3
Service Aces per set 0.25 0.22
Receptions 2 0
Reception Errors 0 0
Digs 53 20
Digs per set 0.46 0.74
Block Solo 14 2
Block Assist 67 18
Block Total 81 20
Blocks per set 0.71 0.74
Block Errors 3 1
Ball Handling Errors 1 0
Points 333.5 90.0
Points per set 2.9 3.3
Matches started 26 6
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Aug 30 vs. Marywood W, 3-0 1 3 10 2 13 .615 0 4 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 15.0
Aug 30 vs. St. Lawrence L, 3-0 1 3 5 5 22 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 4 0 7.5
Aug 31 vs. Rochester (N.Y.) L, 3-2 1 5 9 4 29 .172 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 3 0 13.5
Aug 31 vs. Lebanon Valley L, 3-1 1 4 3 3 15 .000 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 5.0
Sep 5 Elms W, 3-0 1 3 8 2 15 .400 2 0 2 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 8.5
Sep 7 Amherst L, 3-0 1 3 2 4 12 -.167 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2.5
Sep 7 Emerson L, 3-1 1 4 6 3 10 .300 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 9.5
Sep 10 at Framingham St. W, 3-2 1 5 9 6 30 .100 1 2 3 0 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 14.0
Sep 12 Sage W, 3-1 1 4 8 2 18 .333 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 11.5
Sep 14 at Smith L, 3-2 1 5 5 2 23 .130 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 0 7 0 9.5
Sep 14 vs. Regis (Mass.) W, 3-0 1 3 11 2 17 .529 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 12.0
Sep 18 at Eastern Conn. St. L, 3-1 1 4 5 4 21 .048 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 7.0
Sep 21 at Worcester St. W, 3-2 - 5 17 4 33 .394 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 17.5
Sep 21 vs. Wheaton (Mass.) L, 3-0 - 3 11 1 21 .476 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 12.0
Sep 24 U. of New England L, 3-2 1 5 16 5 30 .367 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 5 0 5 0 19.5
Sep 28 vs. Norwich W, 3-1 1 4 14 5 30 .300 0 2 1 - 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 17.0
Sep 28 at Suffolk L, 3-2 1 5 9 4 21 .238 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 6 0 6 0 12.0
Oct 2 Curry W, 3-0 1 3 13 4 27 .333 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 14.0
Oct 5 Mass.-Boston W, 3-2 1 5 4 1 13 .231 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 5.0
Oct 8 vs. Nichols W, 3-0 - 3 6 3 19 .158 1 1 1 - 0 2 1 2 0 3 0 9.0
Oct 11 at Mount Holyoke W, 3-2 1 5 14 3 33 .333 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 3 0 7 0 20.5
Oct 16 at Salve Regina L, 3-0 1 3 5 2 13 .231 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Oct 19 Colby-Sawyer L, 3-0 1 3 7 3 22 .182 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 8.5
Oct 19 Westfield St. W, 3-1 1 4 14 5 26 .346 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 16.5
Oct 22 at Gordon L, 3-2 1 5 17 5 36 .333 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 3 1 3 0 18.5
Oct 24 Clark University L, 3-0 1 3 11 0 12 .917 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 4 0 13.0
Oct 26 Roger Williams L, 3-1 1 4 10 4 22 .273 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 5 0 15.0
Oct 30 Wentworth L, 3-1 1 4 6 3 19 .158 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Nov 2 at Endicott L, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 5 at Roger Williams L, 3-1 1 4 3 2 10 .100 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 6.0
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
2016-17 29 97 156 1.61 62 415 .227 3 0.03 1 0.01 8 4 27 0.28 8 44 52 0.54 187.0 1.9
2017-18 28 95 153 1.61 72 441 .184 9 0.09 22 0.23 5 1 51 0.54 17 36 53 0.56 210.0 2.2
2018-19 29 111 242 2.18 76 565 .294 3 0.03 39 0.35 4 0 60 0.54 6 43 49 0.44 308.5 2.8
2019-20 29 114 258 2.26 93 612 .270 7 0.06 28 0.25 2 0 53 0.46 14 67 81 0.71 333.5 2.9
Total 115 417 809 1.94 303 2033 .249 22 0.05 90 0.22 19 5 191 0.46 45 190 235 0.56 1039.0 2.5
    m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
Event Total 29 114 258 2.26 93 612 .270 7 0.06 28 0.25 2 0 53 0.46 14 67 81 0.71 333.5 2.9
Conference 7 27 73 2.70 26 166 .283 2 0.07 6 0.22 0 0 20 0.74 2 18 20 0.74 90.0 3.3
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Location Home 12 45 105 2.33 36 226 .305 2 0.04 10 0.22 1 0 22 0.49 1 31 32 0.71 131.5 2.9
Away 9 41 84 2.05 32 220 .236 4 0.10 7 0.17 1 0 18 0.44 11 18 29 0.71 111.0 2.7
Neutral 8 28 69 2.46 25 166 .265 1 0.04 11 0.39 0 0 13 0.46 2 18 20 0.71 91.0 3.3
Result Wins 12 47 128 2.72 39 274 .325 4 0.09 13 0.28 1 0 25 0.53 8 23 31 0.66 160.5 3.4
Losses 17 67 130 1.94 54 338 .225 3 0.04 15 0.22 1 0 28 0.42 6 44 50 0.75 173.0 2.6
Month August 4 15 27 1.80 14 79 .165 0 0.00 8 0.53 0 0 5 0.33 1 10 11 0.73 41.0 2.7
September 13 53 121 2.28 44 281 .274 5 0.09 10 0.19 2 0 25 0.47 6 31 37 0.70 152.5 2.9
October 11 42 107 2.55 33 242 .306 2 0.05 8 0.19 0 0 23 0.55 6 26 32 0.76 134.0 3.2
November 1 4 3 0.75 2 10 .100 0 0.00 2 0.50 0 0 0 0.00 1 0 1 0.25 6.0 1.5

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