2014 Football Roster
Oct 11 (Sat)
1:30 PM
Isaiah Holland
- Position:
- Offensive Lineman
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 330
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Arvada, Colo.
- High School:
- Valor Christian
AT COLORADO: This Season (Fr.) - He is projected to be an offensive lineman his true freshman year in college.
HIGH SCHOOL - As a senior, he earned All-Colorado honors from both the Denver Post and Mile High Sports Magazine. He was the anchor of a dominant offensive line that allowed just three quarterback sacks total in two seasons (none personally), starting all 28 games at tackle over the course of his junior and senior seasons. He registered several touchdown and downfield blocks both years, along with several pancake blocks. He attended Patch High School, located on a U.S. military post in Stuttgart, Germany, as a freshman and sophomore, where he played junior varsity football (offensive line and some defensive end as a frosh). VHS was the two-time 5A Colorado state champion when he anchored the Eagles offensive line: as a senior in 2013 under coach Rod Sherman, Valor was 13-1, and as a junior coach Brent Vieselmeyer, they were 12-2.
ACADEMICS - He is interested in Mechanical Engineering as his major at Colorado. He was one of Colorado’s 11 Scholar-Athletes as selected by the state’s chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
PERSONAL - He was born December 18, 1995 in Denver. His hobbies include fishing, camping and robotics. His father, Darius Holland, was a four-year letterman at defensive tackle for the Buffaloes from 1991-94 and played for Green Bay, Detroit, Cleveland, Minnesota and Denver over the course of a 10-year career in the National Football League. Active in his community, he has volunteered in the nursery at the “True Life Church,” served as a mentor at the “Dare to Play” football camp for athletes challenged with Down Syndrome, and helped gather Christmas trees for children of underprivileged families. He originally accepted an appointment to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point but had a change of heart. The last high school recruit of the 2014 class, as he signed a grant-in-aid to attend CU on May 24.
