2025-26 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster
Roster
Kelly, Kyla
Back/Fly/Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Breast
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Back/Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/Back
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/Fly/Back
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Breast
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Diving
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Back/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Back
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Breast/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly/IM
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/back/IM
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Breast/IM/Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Back/IM
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Fly/Sprint Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
IM/Free/Breast
/ Women's Swimming and DivingDiving
/ Women's Swimming and DivingDiving
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Diving
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free/IM
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Breast
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBack/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Free
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Kyla Kelly
- Position:
- Back/IM
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Monte Vista
- Hometown:
- Danville, Calif.
Bio
Career entering 2025-26: Has scored 92.5 points at Patriot League Championships … owns the program’s eighth-fastest 100 freestyle (50.95) and 10th-fastest 200 IM (2:02.89) times …helped set the school record in the 200 freestyle relay (1:32.70) ... also part of the second-fastest 400 free relay ... 19 career individual event wins.
2024-25 (Junior): Big junior season, culminating with a 50.5-point showing at the Patriot League Championships ... placed sixth in the 200 IM, T-11th in the 100 freestyle, and 16th in the 400 IM ... won a silver medal with the 400 free relay ... part of the 200 free relay that set the school record and finished fourth, just .39 off the podium ... at the ECAC Championships anchored the gold-medal-winning 400 free relay that iced Bucknell's team victory ... scored in three individual events, highlighted by a bronze medal in the 200 free as part of a 1-2-3 Bison sweep with Clara Renner and Ryle Giles ... also took fourth in the 100 free and 10th in the 100 back ... won 12 individual events during the regular season ... captured the 400 IM and 100 free at the Bucknell Fall Invitational ... won the 100 free and 100 IM in the quad meet with Navy, American, and Lafayette ... also won two events in dual wins over Boston University, Loyola, and Lehigh... member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2023-24 (Sophomore): Scored 32 points at the Patriot League Championships, placing 11th in the 200 IM (2:03.65), 14th in the 400 IM (4:29.15) and 23rd in the 200 backstroke (2:05.34) … also swam the second leg of the fifth-place 400 freestyle relay and the sixth-place, school-record setting 200 freestyle relay (1:32.93) teams at the PL Championships … placed third in the 100 freestyle, fifth in the 50 freestyle and fifth in the 100 backstroke at the ECAC Championships … tallied seven wins in individual events during the season … won the 100 IM at the Navy Invitational … touched the wall first in the 400 IM at the Navy Quad Meet … went second seven times … earned a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2022-23 (First Year): Finished 12th in the 400 IM, 14th in the 200 backstroke and 15th in the 200 IM for 10 points at the Patriot League Championships … placed second three times, including in the 200 IM at the ECAC Championships … finished third in the 100 backstroke vs. Army … member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Before Bucknell: Swam for Monte Vista High School … 2019 North Coast sectional finalist and CIF state qualifier in the 100 backstroke and 200 IM … finished in the CIF's top 10 in the 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 200 IM in 2019 … earned 2019 All-America status based on fifth-place performance by the 500-freestyle team that placed fifth at the CIF state championships … helped the Mustangs win 2019 North Coast sectional and East Bay Athletic League titles … graduated with a school record in the 400 freestyle relay … also compete for San Ramon Valley Aquatics … three-time Swimmer of the Year (2019, 2018 & 2017) … 2020 Speedo sectionals finalist in the 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200 IM and 400 IM … Futures qualifier in the 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 IM and 400 IM … left program with records in the 100 backstroke (13-14 & 15-16 age groups) and 200 backstroke (15-16 age group).
Personal: Kyla Faith Kelly … born February 6, 2004 in Newport Beach, California … daughter of Patrick and Laarni Kelly … has a younger sister: McKenna … father played football at Stanford University ... majoring in neuroscience.
2024-25 (Junior): Big junior season, culminating with a 50.5-point showing at the Patriot League Championships ... placed sixth in the 200 IM, T-11th in the 100 freestyle, and 16th in the 400 IM ... won a silver medal with the 400 free relay ... part of the 200 free relay that set the school record and finished fourth, just .39 off the podium ... at the ECAC Championships anchored the gold-medal-winning 400 free relay that iced Bucknell's team victory ... scored in three individual events, highlighted by a bronze medal in the 200 free as part of a 1-2-3 Bison sweep with Clara Renner and Ryle Giles ... also took fourth in the 100 free and 10th in the 100 back ... won 12 individual events during the regular season ... captured the 400 IM and 100 free at the Bucknell Fall Invitational ... won the 100 free and 100 IM in the quad meet with Navy, American, and Lafayette ... also won two events in dual wins over Boston University, Loyola, and Lehigh... member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2023-24 (Sophomore): Scored 32 points at the Patriot League Championships, placing 11th in the 200 IM (2:03.65), 14th in the 400 IM (4:29.15) and 23rd in the 200 backstroke (2:05.34) … also swam the second leg of the fifth-place 400 freestyle relay and the sixth-place, school-record setting 200 freestyle relay (1:32.93) teams at the PL Championships … placed third in the 100 freestyle, fifth in the 50 freestyle and fifth in the 100 backstroke at the ECAC Championships … tallied seven wins in individual events during the season … won the 100 IM at the Navy Invitational … touched the wall first in the 400 IM at the Navy Quad Meet … went second seven times … earned a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2022-23 (First Year): Finished 12th in the 400 IM, 14th in the 200 backstroke and 15th in the 200 IM for 10 points at the Patriot League Championships … placed second three times, including in the 200 IM at the ECAC Championships … finished third in the 100 backstroke vs. Army … member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Before Bucknell: Swam for Monte Vista High School … 2019 North Coast sectional finalist and CIF state qualifier in the 100 backstroke and 200 IM … finished in the CIF's top 10 in the 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 200 IM in 2019 … earned 2019 All-America status based on fifth-place performance by the 500-freestyle team that placed fifth at the CIF state championships … helped the Mustangs win 2019 North Coast sectional and East Bay Athletic League titles … graduated with a school record in the 400 freestyle relay … also compete for San Ramon Valley Aquatics … three-time Swimmer of the Year (2019, 2018 & 2017) … 2020 Speedo sectionals finalist in the 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200 IM and 400 IM … Futures qualifier in the 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 IM and 400 IM … left program with records in the 100 backstroke (13-14 & 15-16 age groups) and 200 backstroke (15-16 age group).
Personal: Kyla Faith Kelly … born February 6, 2004 in Newport Beach, California … daughter of Patrick and Laarni Kelly … has a younger sister: McKenna … father played football at Stanford University ... majoring in neuroscience.
Michigan State at Bucknell Field Hockey Highlights 9-28-2025
Sunday, September 28
Saint Francis at Bucknell Football Highlights 9-27-2025
Sunday, September 28
Post Game Interview vs. SFU
Sunday, September 28
Boston University at Bucknell Men's Soccer Highlights 9-27-2025
Saturday, September 27
