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Bria Holmes

{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1994)}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Bria Holmes

| image =

| league = WNBA

| team =

| number =

| position = Shooting guard

| height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3

| weight_lbs = 170

| nationality = American

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|04|19|mf=y}}

| birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut

| high_school = Hillhouse (New Haven, Connecticut)

| college = West Virginia (2012–2016)

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2016

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 11

| draft_team = Atlanta Dream

| career_start = 2016

| career_end =

| years1 = {{WNBA Year|2016}}–{{WNBA Year|2017}}

| team1 = Atlanta Dream

| years2 = {{WNBA Year|2018}}–{{WNBA Year|2020}}

| team2 = Connecticut Sun

| years3= {{WNBA Year|2021}}

| team3 = Los Angeles Sparks

| years4= {{WNBA Year|2021}}

| team4 = Las Vegas Aces

| highlights =

| wnba_profile = bria-holmes

}}

Bria Holmes (born April 19, 1994) is an American professional basketball player who is a free agent in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted with the eleventh overall pick in the 2016 WNBA draft. Holmes was the fifth player to be drafted from West Virginia.{{cite web|url=http://www.bluegoldsports.com/vu-standout-bria-holmes-selected-11th-overall-in-wnba-draft/|title=WVU standout Bria Holmes selected 11th overall in WNBA draft|last=Rose|first=Shanna|work=BlueGoldSports|date=April 14, 2016|accessdate=August 2, 2019|archive-date=October 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027080632/http://www.bluegoldsports.com/vu-standout-bria-holmes-selected-11th-overall-in-wnba-draft/|url-status=dead}}

College career

Holmes was rated the #1 player in Connecticut by ESPN in the 2012 recruiting class.{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/100957/bria-holmes|title=Bria Holmes|website=espn.com|publisher=ESPN|accessdate=August 2, 2019}} Over her four years at West Virginia, Holmes scored 2,001 points. She is only the fourth player to reach the 2,000 point mark in Mountaineer history. She averaged 14.5 points per game and 3.5 rebounds per game at West Virginia. Holmes finished her career as the third highest scorer in Mountaineer history, and became only the second Mountaineer to receive all conference first team honors in three straight years. Holmes also finished with three straight years of scoring 500 or more points.{{cite web|url=https://www.wnba.com/draft2019profile/bria-holmes/|title=Bria Holmes|website=wnba.com|publisher=WNBA|accessdate=August 2, 2019}} The Mountaineers made the NCAA Tournament in three out of the four years Holmes was on the team. In the 2013–14 season, the Mountaineers won the Big 12 regular season title.

=West Virginia statistics=

Source{{Cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer|title=NCAA Statistics|website=web1.ncaa.org|access-date=2021-05-19}}

{{NBA player statistics legend}}

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

2012–13

|West Virginia

|31

|180

|32.3%

|20.0%

|56.9%

|1.6

|0.5

|0.9

|0.5

|5.8

2013–14

|West Virginia

|34

|516

|46.7%

|34.3%

|65.0%

|3.5

|1.7

|1.4

|0.6

|15.2

2014–15

|West Virginia

|38

|716

|39.9%

|24.1%

|62.9%

|4.4

|2.8

|1.5

|0.9

|18.8

2015–16

|West Virginia

|35

|589

|48.5%

|32.4%

|67.9%

|4.1

|3.7

|1.1

|0.9

|16.8

Career

|

|138

|2001

|42.8%

|28.3%

|64.3%

|3.5

|2.2

|1.2

|0.7

|14.5

WNBA career

Holmes was drafted in the first round, with the eleventh overall pick in the 2016 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream. In her first season, Holmes started 10 games and played in 32 with the Dream. She averaged 7.5 points per game and 2.6 rebounds per game. In 2017, Holmes played in all 32 games for the Dream again and started 13. She improved her points per game to 7.8.{{cite web|url=https://www.wnba.com/player/bria-holmes/|title=Bria Holmes Bio|website=wnba.com|publisher=WNBA|accessdate=August 2, 2019}} Prior to the 2018 season, Holmes was traded to the Connecticut Sun for a second round pick in the 2018 WNBA draft and a second round pick in the 2019 WNBA draft.{{cite web|url=https://www.apnews.com/d8e599c338c84780ac28df4bce22c95c|title=Sun acquire Bria Holmes from Atlanta for 2 WNBA draft picks|website=apnews.com|publisher=Associated Press|date=April 12, 2018|accessdate=August 2, 2019}} Prior to this trade, Holmes had announced that she would miss the 2018 season due to pregnancy.{{cite web|url=http://dream.wnba.com/news/bria-holmes-miss-2018-season-due-pregnancy/|title=Bria Holmes to Miss 2018 Season Due to Pregnancy|website=dream.wnba.com|date=January 16, 2018|accessdate=April 2, 2018}}

=WNBA career statistics=

{{WNBA player statistics legend}}

==Regular season==

{{WNBA player statistics start}}

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| 2016

| style="text-align:left;"| Atlanta

| 33 || 10 || 21.3 || .435 || .274 || .774 || 2.6 || 1.2 || 0.9 || 0.2 || 1.2 || 7.5

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| 2017

| style="text-align:left;"| Atlanta

| 32 || 13 || 22.2 || .378 || .189 || .640 || 2.9 || 1.8 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 1.1 || 7.8

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| 2019

| style="text-align:left;"| Connecticut

| 34 || 0 || 15.6 || .399 || .317 || .672 || 1.4 || 0.9 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 0.9 || 6.3

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| 2020

| style="text-align:left;"| Connecticut

| 18 || 4 || 16.2 || .357 || .333 || .667 || 1.8 || 1.1 || 0.7 || 0.3 || 1.0 || 4.9

|-

| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2 | 2021

| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles

| 17 || 5 || 18.4 || .326 || .242 || .565 || 2.8 || 1.2 || 0.9 || 0.4 || 1.2 || 4.9

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas

| 2 || 0 || 3.0 || .000 || — || — || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 0.0

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| Career

| style="text-align:left;"| 6 years, 4 teams

| 136 || 32 || 18.8 || .388 || .270 || .676 || 2.3 || 1.2 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 1.1 || 6.5

{{S-end}}

==Playoffs==

{{WNBA player statistics start}}

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| 2016

| style="text-align:left;"| Atlanta

| 2 || 2 || 35.0 || .500 || .286 || .625 || 5.5 || 2.5 || 0.5 || 0.5 || 2.0 || 15.5

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| 2019

| style="text-align:left;"| Connecticut

| 8 || 0 || 13.6 || .386 || .200 || .778 || 1.5 || 1.0 || 0.9 || 0.1 || 1.0 || 5.5

|-

| style="text-align:left;"| Career

| style="text-align:left;"| 2 years, 2 teams

| 10 || 2 || 17.9 || .426 || .227 || .706 || 2.3 || 1.3 || 0.8 || 0.2 || 1.2 || 7.5

{{S-end}}

References

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External links

  • [https://wvusports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3343 West Virginia Mountaineers bio]
  • [https://www.wnba.com/player/bria-holmes/ WNBA bio]

{{2016 WNBA draft}}

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Category:1994 births

Category:Living people

Category:American women's basketball players

Category:Atlanta Dream draft picks

Category:Atlanta Dream players

Category:Connecticut Sun players

Category:Las Vegas Aces players

Category:Los Angeles Sparks players

Category:Shooting guards

Category:Basketball players from New Haven, Connecticut

Category:West Virginia Mountaineers women's basketball players

Category:Expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic

Category:Hillhouse High School alumni

Category:21st-century American sportswomen