FHSU Athletics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Former Fort Hays State softball standout Maddie Holub was inducted into the MIAA Hall of Fame on Monday evening (June 3) at the yearly MIAA Awards Celebration in downtown Kansas City. Holub played softball at FHSU from 2010-2013 and capped her four-year career with an epic senior season that saw her capture MIAA Pitcher and Player of the Year honors, the only time it has ever happened in MIAA softball history.
Holub was one of 10 individuals inducted in the Class of 2024. She is the first Tiger to go into the MIAA Hall of Fame since FHSU joined the conference in 2006-07. An individual must be a member of their school's hall of fame before receiving consideration for being inducted into the MIAA Hall of Fame. Holub went into the FHSU Tiger Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.
On top of being the MIAA Pitcher and Player of the Year, Holub earned All-America First Team honors in 2013 by both the NFCA and Daktronics. She was also the Daktronics Central Region Pitcher of the Year. Overall, she was a five-time All-MIAA performer (earned two honors her senior year) and a three-time all-region selection. She threw an MIAA record seven no-hitters as a pitcher, including six her senior year. Two of the no-hitters her senior year were perfect games thrown in back-to-back starts, the first player at any NCAA level to throw perfect games in consecutive starts. Holub set 34 FHSU records for both pitching and offense and still holds a good majority of those records still today.
To read more on Holub's amazing career at Fort Hays State, see the following release.
Maddie Holub to be Inducted into MIAA Hall of Fame
Holub was one of two Tigers honored during the event as current FHSU Women's Basketball student-athlete Katie Wagner was named the women's recipient of the annual Ken B. Jones Award, given to the top female and male student-athletes in the MIAA. Holub was a finalist for the Ken B. Jones Award in 2013.
Holub is currently the pitching coach for the softball team at the University of North Carolina. She just completed her first season at UNC after serving at Marshall University in the same capacity from 2018-2023. Prior to that, she was an assistant coach at St. Leo University in Florida for four years under former FHSU head coach Erin Kinberger. Following her playing career, Holub was an assistant coach for one year at FHSU before joining Kinberger at St. Leo.