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Arden Holden

Assistant Coach

arden.holden@unlv.edu

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Arden Holden joined the UNLV women's soccer staff as an assistant coach in June of 2023.

A Las Vegas native, Holden played professionally for three years in the U.S. and overseas, including stints with the Portland Thorns of the NWSL (2019), BIIK Kazygurt (2019) in Kazakhstan, Boavista FC (2020) in Portugal and KR Reykjavik (2021) in Iceland. Among her career highlights, she advanced to the round of 16 in the 2019-20 UEFA Women's Champions League with BIIK Kazygurt.

Holden is coming off her first year of coaching in 2022-23. She previously served as a volunteer coach at Westcliff University (Irvine, California) during the 2022 fall season and overseas as a video scout for FC Dinamo Tbilisi (Tbilisi, Georgia) in the spring of 2023. Additionally, she has assisted with local youth club Heat FC.

A former student-athlete, Holden played collegiate soccer at Ohio State, where she was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection and earned United Soccer Coaches Third Team Scholar All-Region honors. She graduated in 2018 with her bachelor's degree in environment, economy, development, and sustainability. She is currently working on obtaining her USSF C License.

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