Home: Lake Stevens, Wash.
Birth Year: 1986
Height: 6-3
Birth Date: June 8, 1986
Residence: Edmond, Okla.
College: Cal State Northridge
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MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2012 – Paralympic Games (Silver Medal)… Volleyball Masters (Gold Medal)… Shanghai Exhibition Tournament… Netherlands Exhibition Tournament. 2011 – Parapan American Zonal Championships (Gold Medal)...ECVD Continental Cup (Gold Medal). 2010 – WOVD Sitting Volleyball World Championships (Silver Medal)... Parapan American Championship in Colorado (Gold Medal)… World Organization for Volleyball Disabled (WOVD) World Cup (Gold Medal). 2009 – Parapan American Zonal Championship (Gold Medal)… Eurocup (Gold Medal). 2008 – Paralympic Games in Beijing (Silver Medal)... World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD) Intercontinental Cup (Bronze Medal). 2007 – Sitting Volleyball Invitational (Silver Medal). 2006 – Sitting Volleyball World Championship in Netherlands.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2012 – Named USA Volleyball 2012 Female Athlete of the Year for sitting volleyball... Named Best Spiker of the 2012 Paralympic Games. Started all 17 sets for the U.S. Women, who won the Parlaympic silver medal. Led the U.S. Women in scoring in four Paralympic matches, finishing with 98 points on 80 kills, nine blocks and seven aces. Best match was the gold medal game against China where she scored 33 points on 28 kills, three blocks and two aces… Led U.S. Women to a 4-0 record and a gold medal at the Volleyball Masters... Named tournament Most Valuable Player at the Volleyball Masters in The Netherlands. 2011 – Named MVP and best spiker at the 2011 Parapan American Games where the team won gold...Helped the U.S. Women to a 7-0 record and a gold medal at the ECVD Continental Cup in Yevpatoria, Ukraine... Named Most Valuable Player and best spiker of the tournament... Katie competed with the U.S. Women's Sitting Team in China in four exhibition matches against the Shanghai club team... Helped lead the U.S. Women to four victories over the Shanghai club team in exhibition matches played in conjunction with the 2011 Colorado Crossroads on March 17-20 in Denver… Led the team with 66 points, 47 kills and 13 aces… Was second on the team with blocks, tallying eight. 2010 – Awarded as the Best Offensive Player at the Sitting Volleyball World Championships where she posted 71 kills, 2.84 per set, good enough for team best. She also led the team in total points, 111, and averaged 4.44 points per set. Her 26 aces was the team-high and she added 14 blocks, 0.56 per set. She finished in second behind Millage in total dids with 42. 2009 – Awarded along with team as the Paralympians of the Year for 2008... 2008 – Helped lead the U.S. to a silver medal finish at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing... Was the leading scorer on the U.S. team, totaling 63 points on 38 kills, 17 blocks and eight aces... Played in 15 of the team's 17 sets, starting all five matches... Was the team leader in points in four out of the five matches, including a 23-point effort in a semifinal win over the Netherlands... Finished in double figure in three out of the five U.S. matches.
PERSONAL: Born Kathryn S. Holloway in 1986, in Everett, Wash. ... Parents are Jeff and Jane Holloway... Has a sister named Chelsey who played basketball at Seattle University... Katie was born without a fibula in her right leg and, when she was 20 months old, her right foot and ankle were amputated... Graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 2004... She competed in volleyball for two years (2000-02) and basketball for four (2000-04) in high school... She earned letters in both basketball and volleyball and was named First Team All-Wesco North League as a basketball center in 2003-04... Her basketball team won the district championship and competed in the state playoffs in 2002-03... College basketball teams recruited her without knowing she was wearing a prosthetic leg... Graduated from Cal State Northridge in 2008 with a degree in sociology... She played NCAA Division I basketball for Cal State Northridge from 2004-08... She was named to the All Big West Freshman Team in 2004-05... She was named Big West Sixth Woman of the Year in 2005-06 and 2006-07... As a senior, Averaged 14.5 points per game and 7.2 rebounds per game, led the Big West Conference in field goal percentage (.554), and was named second-team All-Big West... Appeared in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd feature in the June 9, 2008 issue... Enjoys scrapbooking... she listens to "a little bit of everything" on her IPod...Her favorite TV show is Friends... Her favorite athlete is Phil Dalhausser... Admires her grandfather Milo the most.
Updated December 2012