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Sydney Holmes

Sydney Holmes

  • Height:
    5-8
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Major:
    Master of Public Health
  • Hometown:
    Modesto, Calif.
  • High School:
    John H. Pitman HS '15
  • Prev School:
    Modesto Junior College

Summary

Biography

2020 MARY JEANNE GILHOOLY AWARD
 

2021: Placed 3rd in heptathlon at Big West Conference Championships, with personal-best 4,698 total... Moved up to No. 6 in school outdoor record book... Also placed 7th in triple jump (11.53m/37-10.0), 8th in long jump (5.51m/18-1.0) at conference... Hit best wind-legal marks in both jumps at Sac State Invite: 5.57m/18-3.25 in LJ, 11.75m/38-6.75 in triple... Completed master in public health degree to use final year of collegiate eligibility.

2020: Won university's MARY JEANNE GILHOOLY AWARD as the outstanding female graduate in the areas of leadership, scholarship, integrity and service... Set a new personal best and the fourth-longest distance in school history when she recorded a 5.52m (18-01.50) in the long jump at the UW Invitational (2/1)... At the Don Kirby Elite Invite (2/14), she set two new PRs in the 60m Hurdles (9.41) and Triple Jump (11.74m/38-06.25)... That jump is now the fifth-longest in the indoor program's history... Recorded a personal best 3.251 points in the pentathlon, a 46-point improvement over her previous personal record, to capture the No. 3 position in the program's records book with this performance at the 2020 MPSF Indoor Championships (2/28)... Opened that day's events with additional PRs in the 60m hurdles (9.23) and shot put (10.97m/36-00)... MPSF and Big West Conference All-Academic honoree.

2019: Placed 9th at the Big West Conference multi meet with a 4,327 score... Improved by 22 points from her only other season hep performance: 4,305 at the Bryan Clay Multi (4/18)... Season-best marks in the hep events: 15.42 in 100 hurdles ta Mike Fanelli (3/29), 1.49m/4-10.5 in high jump at Bryan Clay, 10.10m/33-1.75 in shot at Bryan Clay, 27.08 in 200 at Bryan Clay; 5.52m/18-1.5 at Cal Opener (3/2), 32.98m/108-2 in javelin at Woody Wilson (4/13), 2:35.03 in 800 at Big West multis... Earned All-Academic honors from both MPSF (indoors) and Big West Conference (outdoor)

2018: Finished in eighth place at the Big West Multi-Event Championships… Recorded the top two highest Aggie marks in women’s triple jump, the top one being a leap of 12.00m/39-4.50 earned at the Woody Wilson Classic on Apr. 14… Posted the third-best javelin throw and the fifth-best long jump on the UC Davis performance list with measurements of 35.52m/116-6.00 at the Big West Track and Field Championships and 5.73m/18-9.75 at the Woody Wilson Classic, respectively.

JOHN H. PITMAN HS’15/MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE’17: Did high school track and field starting as a sophomore, competing in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 55m hurdles, 100m hurdles, shot put, high jump, pole vault, standing long jump, triple jump, and the medicine ball throw events as a senior… Set her 55m hurdles, 100m hurdles, shot put, pole vault, triple jump, and medicine ball throw high school personal bests during the 2015 outdoor season… Her 100m, 200m, 400m, 300m hurdles, high jump, and standing long jump high school personal bests were set during the 2014 outdoor season… Qualified to the Master’s meet in the long jump event during her junior year season, and got a season high jump of 16’11”… As a senior, she qualified to Divisions in the long and triple jump, which she got a 36’6” season high of… During her time at Modesto Junior College, she received all-conference in the long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and 100m hurdles events… Was a California Community College State Meet qualifier in the heptathlon, triple jump, as well as the pole vault event, with her 11’1” jump placing in third that day.

PERSONAL: Born in Modesto, Calif… Finished undergraduate degree in neurobiology, physiology & behavior in 2020, now a student in UC Davis Master of Public Health program... Parents are Camille and Mark… Has a younger sister Delaney… Founded AGS, or Athlete Guidance Support, a student-athlete resource group concerning mental health... Her career sports highlight is placing third in the pole vault event at the 2017 California Community College State Meet… Says if she could do another sport at UC Davis, it would be gymnastics… The top three things on her bucket list is to go to Sydney, Australia, run a marathon, and go on a hot air balloon ride… Chose UC Davis for the academic and supportive environment.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2018Junior

    Jumps/Multis
    5'8"
  • 2019Senior

    Jumps/Multis
    5'8"
  • 2020Senior

    Jumps/Multis
    5'8"