2024 Softball Roster
Jersey Number 2
McKenna Kelly
- Position:
- Pitcher
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- High School:
- Bishop Macdonell Catholic
- B/T:
- R/R
- Major:
- Biochemistry
SENIOR (2024)
- Pitched in a team-high 34 games and started 16 times
- Posted four complete games and worked 127 innings
- Went six innings, allowing only three hits and no earned runs in a win over Buffalo
- Defeated CAA preseason favorite Delaware with 5.1 innings of six-hit shutout ball
- Picked up a win at Hampton with four shutout innings
- Had a career-high six strikeouts vs. Oakland and Monmouth
- Appeared in 12 games with one start
- Worked four innings of two-hit relief with four strikeouts to pick up a win over SC State
- Allowed only two runs in five innings vs. Ohio State
- Blanked Delaware on only one hit in 2.1 innings of relief
- Threw three innings and did not give up an earned run vs. Furman
- Pitched in eight games with six starts
- Picked up two wins and had a pair of complete games
- Earned her first career victory in a complete game five-hitter vs. Holy Cross
- Gained another win the following week vs. Western Carolina, striking out a season-high four
- Went the distance in her first start of the season vs. Alabama State
- Pitched in 11 games with two starts
- Went three innings vs. UNCW and allowed two hits and one unearned run with two strikeouts
- Also struck out two in 1.1 innings vs. Winthrop
- Started three times as the DP and served as a pinch runner during the season
- Scored two runs and stole a base
- Graduated from Bishop Macdonell Catholic High School in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Played for Vaughan Vikings club team
- Led team to Provincial championship in 2018 and was named the province's top pitcher
- Selected MVP three times
- Member of 2019 Canadian national championship team
- Pitched in the 2019 Euro Cup in the Netherlands and helped team place fourth out of 20 squads
- Played on the Canadian Junior National Team
- Also played volleyball and was two-time team MVP
- Received Highest GPA Award and Prime Care Pharmacy Award for proficiency in the sciences
- Recipient of Academic and Athletic Excellence Award
- Member of the Athletic Council and Model UN
PERSONAL
- Born on February 22, 2002 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Daughter of Glenn and Cheryl Kelly
- Active in local community, including work as a tutor for math and science and Relay for Life cancer organization
- Volunteered for the HOPE House breakfast program designed to restore dignity and self-suffiency of the impoverished
- Created personalized boxes with gifts and essentials for special needs homes at Christmas
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