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Chavis Holmes

American basketball player (born 1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ5088516
Source-derived summary

Chavis Holmes (born May 9, 1986) is an American basketball player. He played college basketball player for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets basketball program. Homes was also named one of the top returning performers in the Big South Conference in 2008 with a combined 664 points in the 2008 season. He was named to the 2009 First Team All-Big South Conference.

Biography

High school career

Chavis and his twin brother, Travis Holmes, began playing high school basketball at Vance High School in Charlotte. The team won the 2002–03 North Carolina state championship. Holmes played the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons at Christ School in Arden, North Carolina. In the 2004 season, Holmes averaged 3.7 assists and 3.4 steals a game for Christ School. The team that season was runner up for the North Carolina state championship. In his senior season, Holmes averaged 17.5 points and 4.3 rebounds.

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The public source identifies “Chavis Holmes” as american basketball player (born 1986). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chavis, Holmes and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2008, 2009, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chavis, Holmes and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Chavis Holmes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.