Mike Hollins

Mike Hollins is an American football running back for the Virginia Cavaliers.

Early life and high school
Hollins was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended high school at University Lab. Hollins was rated as a three star prospect. Hollins would decide to commit to play college football at the University of Virginia.

College career
In week two of the 2019 season, Hollins rushed for 78 yards and scored his first two career touchdowns, as he helped Virginia beat William & Mary. Hollins finished the 2019 season with 112 yards and three touchdowns on 21 carries, while also notching two tackles. Hollins would decide to opt-out of the 2020 season due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the 2021 season, Hollins would rush for 213 yards and two touchdowns on 49 carries, while also hauling in 16 receptions for 83 yards, and returning five kickoffs for 71 yards. During the 2022 season, Hollins rushed for 215 yards and two touchdowns on 64 carries and added 115 receiving years which included a career-long 64 yard reception in the Cavaliers' loss to Miami.

On November 13, 2022, Hollins and four others were shot on a chartered bus that had just returned from a class trip to Washington, D.C. Hollins and another student survived, but three teammates, Devin Chandler, D'Sean Perry, and Lavel Davis Jr, died. After four months, Hollins would make a recovery and return to practice for the Cavaliers. In the 2023 Virginia football spring game, Hollins would score a one yard rushing touchdown, and after would pay tribute to his former teammate by placing the ball on the name of D’Sean Perry, painted in the end zone alongside those of Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler.

In week eight of the 2023 season, Hollins rushed for 66 yards and three touchdowns, helping Virginia upset #10 North Carolina.

On November 27, 2023, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced that Hollins had been named the recipient of the conference’s 2023 Brian Piccolo Award which is given annually to the "most courageous" football player in the ACC in memory of the late Brian Piccolo.