Rachel Holden UT Dallas women's soccer staff Assistant | https://utdcomets.com/news/2023/3/22/holden-added-to-comet-womens-soccer-staff.aspx
Rachel Holden UT Dallas women's soccer staff Assistant | https://utdcomets.com/news/2023/3/22/holden-added-to-comet-womens-soccer-staff.aspx
Rachel Holden joined the UT Dallas women's soccer staff as an assistant earlier this month after a successful playing career at the NCAA Division I level.
Holden was inducted into the University of North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame in October 2022. She was a four-year starter and four-time All-Conference USA selection from 2013-16, including three years on the First Team. Holden is the only player in UNT history to earn conference Offensive Player of the Year Award twice, earning it in 2013 and 2015. She was also the Conference USA Freshman of the Year in 2013 and earned All-Region honors in 2013 and 2015. Holden earned Conference USA All-Academic honor her final three years with the Mean Green.
Holden helped her team to a 64-21-4 record during her four seasons, winning three CUSA championships during that time. Holden started 85 games in her career, which ranks seventh in school history. She ranks sixth all-time at North Texas with 38 career goals and ninth all-time with 86 career points. Holden is tied for second in UNT history for game-winning goals with 16. She ranks eighth all time at North Texas for career shots with 215 and fourth all-time at North Texas for career shots on goal with 40. Following her Mean Green career, Holden played in Sweden for IFK Östersund in 2018.
After her playing career, Holden served as a coach for North Texas Celtic FC beginning in 2019, she also was a skills coach in Corinth, Texas and a Camp Gladiator fitness trainer.
"I am delighted Rachel decided to join the program," said UTD head coach Stephen Shirley. "When I took the head coach position she was my first choice candidate. She brings a winning mentality and is a competitor. You just have to look at what she did as a player to see this. She is going to be a wonderful resource for our players to learn from."
Holden, from Lancaster, Texas, was a four-star player and ranked No. 31 in the state by Top Drawer Soccer as a high school player for Marantha Christian and Sting96.
She graduated from UNT with a B.S. in Kinesiology and a Health minor in 2016.
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