Jamie Holmes (soccer)

{{short description|American soccer player}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Jamie Holmes

| image =

| fullname = Jamie Reid Holmes

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|4|4}}

| birth_place = Springfield, Virginia, United States

| height = {{height|ft=6|in=1}}

| position = Forward

| currentclub =

| clubnumber = 9

| youthyears1 = 2001–2004

| youthclubs1 = Birmingham Southern Panthers

| years1 = 2005

| clubs1 = New England Revolution

| caps1 = 1 | goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2007–2008

| clubs2 = Wilmington Hammerheads

| caps2 = 24 | goals2 = 9

| years3 = 2007

| clubs3 = → Rochester Rhinos (loan)

| caps3 = 4 | goals3 = 1

| years4 = 2008

| clubs4 = → Charleston Battery (loan)

| caps4 = 1 | goals4 = 0

| years5 = 2009

| clubs5 = Real Maryland Monarchs

| caps5 = 11 | goals5 = 3

| nationalyears1 =

| nationalteam1 =

| nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 =

| medaltemplates =

| pcupdate = 12 April 2009

| ntupdate =

}}

Jamie Holmes (born April 4, 1983, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American soccer player. He concluded his career playing for Real Maryland Monarchs in the USL Second Division.

Career

=College=

Holmes played college soccer at Birmingham Southern College from 2001 to 2004.

=Professional=

Holmes was drafted in the second round (seventeenth overall) in the 2005 MLS Supplemental Draft by New England Revolution, but despite featuring heavily for the Revs in the MLS Reserve Division,{{Cite web |url=http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20050516&content_id=29995&vkey=pr_dcu&fext=.jsp&team=t103 |title=Revs Reserves 4, United Reserves 3 |access-date=2009-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119195244/http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20050516&content_id=29995&vkey=pr_dcu&fext=.jsp&team=t103 |archive-date=2010-01-19 |url-status=dead }} played just one game in Major League Soccer - a 1–1 tie with the Kansas City Wizards on June 4, 2005 - before being waived on on November 16, 2005.[http://www.soccernewengland.com/articles/view_article.php?id=783 Revolution waives seven] He appears not to have played professionally in 2006.

In the spring of 2007, Holmes signed with the Wilmington Hammerheads of the USL Second Division, and spent two years playing with the team. He had two loan spells in the USL First Division - one in July 2007 with the Rochester Rhinos,[http://www.democratandchronicle.com/blogs/devo/2007_07_01_archive.html Rhinos fortify for stretch run] and one in August 2008 with the Charleston Battery,[http://www.wilmingtonhammerheads.com/news.asp?id=504 Hammerheads Players Progress] before signing with the Real Maryland Monarchs in 2009.

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