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Jersey Number 15
Lance Holtzclaw
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 245
- Position:
- DE
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Boston, Mass.
- High School:
- Desert Ridge HS
- Prev School:
- Washington
2026: Member of the team's Leadership Council.
2025: Played in all 13 games, earning a start for the Las Vegas Bowl vs. Nebraska.
Prior to Utah: Spent the 2022-24 seasons with Washington, where he saw action in 26 games.
High School: Rated as a three-star prospect after prepping at Desert Ridge High School in Arizona.
Personal:
2025: Played in all 13 games, earning a start for the Las Vegas Bowl vs. Nebraska.
- Totaled 26 tackles on the season (4.0 TFL, 1.5 sack) and three pass breakups.
- Set a pair of career-bests with five tackles and 2.0 TFL at West Virginia.
- Regular season finale at Kansas included a five-tackle performance—all solo—plus a PBU.
- Contributed three-tackle performances in the wins over Cincinnati and Baylor.
- Two tackles at BYU included having a hand in a TFL.
- First PBU of the season came during the win over Colorado.
- Made a nine-yard sack in the Las Vegas Bowl as Utah pulled away for the win.
Prior to Utah: Spent the 2022-24 seasons with Washington, where he saw action in 26 games.
- Collected 13 total tackles, including two sacks and a fumble recovery.
- Logged his first career sack in the Huskies win over Washington State in 2023 that clinched their spot in the Pac-12 title game.
- Part of the Huskies teams that won the 2022 Alamo Bowl, 2023 Pac-12 Championship and 2023 Sugar Bowl.
- Named the team's 2022 Defensive Scout MVP.
High School: Rated as a three-star prospect after prepping at Desert Ridge High School in Arizona.
- Earned All-Conference and All-State as a defensive end and wide receiver.
- As a senior in 2021, notched 48 total tackles, including 10 sacks, over 12 games.
- In an abbreviated, six-game season in 2020, had 27 total tackles, including nine for loss.
- Named to the 5A All-Region second team as a defensive lineman as a junior.
Personal:
- Son of Anika Garcia and Duke Holtzclaw.
- Has one sibling, Lauren.
- Father played basketball at Northeastern.
- Hobbies include making songs, filming and cars.
- Is the third known player in Utah Football history to have a Massachusetts hometown, and 11th from New England (region includes Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island).
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