After finishing her distinguished college career, Mackenzie Holmes is returning to IU women’s basketball. The team announced Holmes, the program’s all-time leading scorer, will be a graduate manager for the 2024-25 season
Holmes played five years at Indiana, scoring 2,530 career points and becoming the program’s first First-Team All-American. She led the Hoosiers to four NCAA Tournament Selections, two Sweet Sixteens, and an Elite Eight.
The 23-year-old, who had multiple knee injuries throughout her college career, was selected by the Seattle Storm in the 2024 WNBA Draft. Holmes isn’t playing this season, though, as she had major knee surgery following the college season to fix lingering issues. She will be fully healed by the start of the Seattle Storm’s 2025 training camp next April.
Holmes is one of multiple WNBA players who work with college programs in the league offseason. Indiana Fever forward Katie Lou Samuelson is Vanderbilt women’s basketball’s director of player development, and the Atlanta Dream’s Rhyne Howard is an assistant coach and director of player personnel at Florida.
IU women’s basketball also added five-year women’s basketball player Lauren Fields as a graduate manager. Fields spent three years at Oklahoma State and one year each at Arizona and West Virginia, and she started all 33 games for the Mountaineers in 2023-24. She earned second-team All-Big 12 honors at Oklahoma State as a junior.