Amber Holt #4 Forward

Background

2010 WNBA Season: Finished the season ranked fourth on the team by averaging 8.7 points per game . . . Scored a career-high 20 points against Phoenix on 5/25/10, this was the first 20-point game in Tulsa Shock history . . . Started in nine games and appeared in all but one game . . . Missed one game due to an arm injury, but scored a team-high 18 points off the bench upon her return 7/8/10 at Indiana. . . Scored at least two points in 32 out of the 33 games she played

2009 WNBA Season: Appeared in 23 games, starting seven of them, for the Connecticut Sun…Averaged 6.0 ppg, 3.2 rpg and 1.9 apg in 21 mins/game…Ranked seventh on her team in scoring (6.0 ppg)… Ranked fifth on the team in rebounds (3.20)…Ranked third on team in free-throw shooting (83.0 percent)…Scored a season-high 18 points against New York on 9/4/09

2008 WNBA Season: Named to the WNBA All-Rookie Team…Guard/forward was the only player on the Sun roster to start all 34 games...One of just two rookies in the league to start every game of the season…Reached double figures in 10 games…Scored a career-best 19 points against Detroit (6/24), with four made threes and eight rebounds…Had a career-best eight assists against Atlanta (6/27)…Made a career-high seven shots in win over Sacramento (5/24)…Was third on the team in assists (65), tied for fourth in made field goals (81), fifth in scoring average (6.5 ppg.) and seventh on the team in total rebounds (105).
In The Playoffs: Had seven points and five rebounds in Game 2 of the series against New York…Averaged four rebounds per game for the series.

COLLEGE: Was named a First Team All-American by CBSSports.com, voted Third Team All-American by the Associated Press, Honorable Mention All-American by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association and to the 10-member US Basketball Writers Association All-America team as a senior…Led the nation in scoring during her senior season, averaging 27.4 points per game…Finished the season with 930 points, the fifth most ever scored by any player in one season in NCAA history…Set numerous Middle Tennessee single season scoring records as a senior, including total points with 930…Holt also set single-season marks for scoring average (27.4), field goals (352), FG attempts (680), free throws (206), FT attempts (261) and 30-point scoring games (14)…Was one of two players in the nation to score 40 or more points in a game twice during the 2007-08 season, with 41 points against LSU on Dec. 28 and 44 points at Louisiana-Monroe on Jan. 24…Her 44 points is a MTSU program record, breaking a 21-year-old mark held previously by Kim Webb…Also scored 30 or more points in 14 contests as a senior…In her two years at MTSU, scored 1,497 points, good for ninth on the all-time list, and her average of 22.0 points per game also tops the Blue Raider annals…Prior to attending Middle Tennessee, spent two years at Southeastern Illinois College, where she was named Second Team NJCAA All-America as a freshman and Kodak All-American and First Team NJCAA All-America as a sophomore…Led SIC to a 33-3 record and a fifth-place finish at the NJCAA Tournament as a sophomore…Spent one semester at Western Kentucky before heading to SIC.