Athenas Soccer needed very little time to achieve its rise, debuting as a varsity program in 1985 and then earning back-to-back SCIAC titles in 1987 and 1988, only the third and fourth years of the program, going 18-1-1 in league games in that span. Hollingshead was a key figure in that meteoric rise, earning the SCIAC Player of the Year in both of those seasons, while also serving as a team captain and winning the Team MVP award. She was also a second-team All-West Region selection, and was a first-ballot selection into the Ted Ducey CMS Hall of Fame, earning induction in 1999, ten years after her graduation from Scripps.