Mike Hollins

Former Cavalier running back Mike Hollins is in his first season on the Virginia staff as a graduate assistant coach. He works with the offensive coaches.

Hollins played at UVA from 2019-2023. He was voted a team captain following the conclusion of the 2023 season. That year saw Hollins honored by multiple organizations when he returning to the team after suffering two gunshot wounds during a campus incident that cost three of his teammates lives in November of 2022.

He was the recipient of the ACC’s Brian Piccolo Award, annually given to the league’s most courageous football player, the winner of the Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award, the recipient of the 2023 Comeback Player of the Year given out by CSC, Associated Press and the Fiesta Bowl and the winner of the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award.

During his career, Hollins appeared in 42 games and rushed for 814 yars and 14 touchdowns, including seven during the 2023 campaign. He caught 34 passes for 231 yards and one score. He totaled 1250 all-purpose yards during his career. Hollins was an All-ACC Academic pick in both 2022 and 2023.

Hollins payed running back and linebacker at University Lab High School for head coach Chad Mahaffey in Baton Rouge, La. He led University Lab to back-to-back 3A state championships in 2017 and 2018, earning MVP honors of the 2018 state championship game after rushing 27 times for 237 yards and four touchdowns. He majored in African-American & African Studies at UVA and also earned a graduate certificate in Education. He was the recipient of the 2022-2023 Sanford B. Prater Football Scholarship.