“Whether it is in the classroom or on the basketball floor, being a well-balanced person is what competing and being a student-athlete at the Div. III level is all about,” said Holbrook, “We challenge kids to be prepared and give 100 percent every day. That’s the only way to learn what each of us is really capable of. Our daily performance determines our opportunity for success, that’s why our team motto is “Success is a choice.”

Holbrook has coached 15 women to All-WIAC honors including Caitlin Hunstock who earned All-WIAC Honorable Mention recognition and was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team last season.

Her experience in the WIAC began as a student-athlete at UW-Stout where she was a two-time All-WIAC first team selection in 1993 and 1994. Her senior season she was named the 1994 WIAC Player of the Year and earned All-American honors. She was named to the second All-WIAC team in 1992. She helped the Blue Devils to a 76-27 record and berths in both the NCAA Div. III and NAIA National Tournaments for four seasons. She was inducted into the UW-Stout Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2005. She is the only person who has been named a WIAC Coach of the Year (2001) and WIAC Player of the Year (1994).

Holbrook was the head tennis coach at UWRF and an assistant basketball coach for five years before taking over the basketball program in 2000.

She is a native of south Minneapolis where she competed in basketball, softball and tennis at Roosevelt High School.

Holbrook earned her psychology undergraduate degree and coaching minor from UW-Stout. She completed her master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology and sociology at the University of Minnesota. She currently teaches in the UWRF health & human performance department.

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