Bucknell University Athletics
2025-26 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster
Roster
Back/Fly/Free
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBreast
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBack/Free
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Back
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly/Back
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Breast
/ Women's Swimming and DivingDiving
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBack/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 DivingFree/back/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBreast/IM/Free
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBack/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFly/Sprint Free
/ Women's Swimming and DivingIM/Free/Breast
/ Women's Swimming and DivingDiving
/ Women's Swimming and DivingDiving
/ Women's Swimming and DivingDiving
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree/IM
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBreast
/ Women's Swimming and DivingBack/Fly
/ Women's Swimming and DivingFree
/ Women's Swimming and Diving
Kyla Kelly
- Position:
- Back/IM
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Monte Vista
- Hometown:
- Danville, Calif.
Career Results
Career: 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 ... 25 career individual event wins.
2025-26 (Senior): Scored 53.50 points at the 2026 Patriot League Championships, finishing fifth in the 200 IM, 10th in the 200 free and 15th in the 100 free … also helped Bucknell take the bronze in the 800 free relay … anchored Bucknell’s record-breaking 200 free relay team at the championships … her time of 2:02.16 in the 200 IM ranks fifth in school history … at the 2026 ECAC Championships, led off Bucknell’s gold-medal winning 200 medley relay team, took bronze in the 100 free, fifth in the 100 breast and ninth in the 50 free … won the 100 breast in win over Holy Cross … won the 200 free and the 200 IM in win over Boston U. … won the 100 IM in quad meet against American, Lafayette and Lehigh … won the 200 IM and the 100 free in win over La Salle … scored 117 points in dual/quad meets.
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.
Career: 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 ... 25 career individual event wins.
2025-26 (Senior): Scored 53.50 points at the 2026 Patriot League Championships, finishing fifth in the 200 IM, 10th in the 200 free and 15th in the 100 free … also helped Bucknell take the bronze in the 800 free relay … anchored Bucknell’s record-breaking 200 free relay team at the championships … her time of 2:02.16 in the 200 IM ranks fifth in school history … at the 2026 ECAC Championships, led off Bucknell’s gold-medal winning 200 medley relay team, took bronze in the 100 free, fifth in the 100 breast and ninth in the 50 free … won the 100 breast in win over Holy Cross … won the 200 free and the 200 IM in win over Boston U. … won the 100 IM in quad meet against American, Lafayette and Lehigh … won the 200 IM and the 100 free in win over La Salle … scored 117 points in dual/quad meets.
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.
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