Melissa Holbach

Class:
Senior
High School:
Palatine HS
Hometown:
Palatine, Ill.

as a Junior (2005-06): Continued to improveduring the season, posting a career-high seven victories and tyingteammate Katie Carter with a diving-corp best 16 top-five finishes... won the 3-meter event with a then meet, pool, school andMAC-record tally of 315.35 on the final day of the 2005 SummaCareInvitational (12/2-12/4/05) ... held the MAC 3-meter record of315.35 (six dives) for 56 days ... her tally of 315.35 still ranksin the top-10 all-time in the MAC and second in the Akron recordbook ... posted the third-best 1-meter tally for six dives inschool history with a score of 274.20 ... earned an invitation tothe NCAA Zone Diving Meet (3/10-3/11/06) for the third-consecutiveyear ... posted a sweep of the diving events on two occasions,including dual meets against Youngstown State (1/14/06) and Kenyon(1/27/06) ... qualified for finals in both the 1-meter and 3-meterevents at the MAC Championship meet (2/25-2/27/06), tying hercareer-best finish of eighth place in the 1-meter event (248.05)and posting a career-best seventh-place finish in the 3-meter event(285.10) ... finished in the top-five in every meet of the regularseason except the Clarion/Duquesne tri-meet (did not compete) andfinished in the top-10 in every event except the two diving eventsat the NCAA Zone Meet (3/10-3/11/06).

as a Sophomore (2004-05): Followed a solidfreshman performance with her first career win and 15 top-fivefinishes … qualified for the NCAA Diving Zone Meet(3/11-3/12/05), finishing 33rd in the 1-meter (197.00) and 30th inthe 3-meter (211.75) … opened the season with a win at theTom Stubbs Relay (10/15/04), capturing the 1-meter event withteammate Lindsey Power with a meet-record tandem performance of479.50 points … earned her first-career victory with a scoreof 200.43 in the 3-meter event against Miami (11/6/04) …recorded a season-best eighth-place finish in the 1-meter event(243.00) and finished 13th in the 3-meter event (385.70) at the MACChampionship meet (2/24-2/26/05) … posted a season-bestscore of 265.43 in the 1-meter event to finish in second placeagainst Ball State (11/5/04) … finished in the top-five,including one victory, in 10-consecutive events spanning five meets(Oakland Quad, Ball State, Miami, Ohio, Akron Quint).

as a Freshman (2003-04): Recorded 19 top-fivefinishes on the season… posted a score of 279.08 whilefinishing second in the 3-meter diving at the Ohio State meet… finished second in the 1-meter diving event with a scoreof 234.22 at the Marshall University meet … recorded asecond-place finish at the Oakland Quad meet with a score of 221.25… finished third in the 1-meter diving with a score of229.50 at the Zips Invitational ... qualified for the NCAA Zonemeet.

Palatine High School: Two sport athlete,competing in both gymnastics and diving ... four-year statequalifier as a diver ... state finalist as a senior, setting thePalatine High School six-dive school record ... U.S. JuniorNational Diving qualifier in 2000 ... also a four-time statefinalist in gymnastics ... set a school record on the vault andfloor as a senior (2003).

Personal: Daughter of Jim and Mary Holbach ...has two brothers, Danny (19) and Stephan (14) ... majoring inbusiness and organizational communications.