WPI Women’s Soccer has seen great successes in its first
two decades as a varsity program. This evening we celebrate its
rise as we proudly induct its first student-athlete into the Hall
of Fame: Megan Holmes.
Holmes tallied a career-best four goals in her debut season to
lead the 11-7-1 Engineers with 10 helpers and ranked second on the
team with 18 points.
“When Meg arrived at WPI as a freshman I knew instantly we
had someone special,” says coach Stephanie Carlson.
“She was a game changer from the first time she stepped onto
the field.”
Despite shifting from midfield to back, Holmes’s
production did not drop off. She led the team with 12 assists and
18 points en route to the first of three All-NEWMAC accolades as
well as the Carolyn McCabe Award as a sophomore.
The Poly Club Award winner notched a trio of goals to go along
with five helpers for 11 points in her junior year, which
translated into a .500 season in conference play for the second
time in three campaigns.
Holmes capped her career pacing the Boynton Hillers to their
first winning season in conference play with six assists, and tied
for first with 12 points as the squad hosted a NEWMAC tournament
game and made the ECAC tournament for the second time in four
years. For her efforts Holmes was named a Varsity Club Award winner
and All-New England by the New England Women’s
Intercollegiate Soccer Association.
“Our program was brought to another level and our most
successful seasons were when Meg was a student-athlete at
WPI,” continues Carlson.
In all, Holmes scored 13 goals and is the career leader with 33
assists for 59 points as Women’s Soccer won a program-best 37
contests including three winning seasons. As a graduate student,
she scored four goals and 10 points to go along with a pair of
assists to pace the field hockey squad.
Holmes was the recipient of the 2002 Ellen Knott Award in
recognition of academic excellence, athletic prowess, and
significant community involvement through the service fraternity
Alpha Phi Omega. She also was given the 2004 Marietta E. Anderson
Award for superior academic record in addition to having been a
work-study student, a volunteer for college-sponsored activities,
and a participant in recognized extracurricular activities.
A native of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Holmes graduated from
WPI in 2005 with a BS in biomedical engineering and in 2006 earned
an MS in the same field. She began working at Mitralign, a start-up
medical device company, in Tewksbury, Mass., where she now is a
senior research and development engineering working on a novel
catheter system to treat mitral valve regurgitation in the
heart.
Meg lives in Nashua, N.H., with her wife, Tiffany (Warrington)
Holmes ’07, and their son, Cooper. She stays active and
continues to play in recreational soccer leagues, among other
sports, and has enjoyed coaching middle school soccer players.
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