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2022-23 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Elena Kessler

  • Position Freestyle
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Port Clinton
  • Hometown Catawba Island, OH
  • Major Biology / Pre-Dental

Biography

Swim Cloud ProfileĀ 

Career Top Times
  • 50 Free = 26.62 (3/25/21)
  • 100 Free = 59.26 (3/26/21)
  • 200 Free = 2:11.85 (3/27/21)

2020-2021
  • Earned a personal best in the 200 Free (2:11.85) and season bests in the 50 Free (26.62) and 100 Free (59.26) at the OAC Championships (3/27)
  • Opened her career at JCU swimming in the 100 (1:00.08) and 200 Free (2:15.23) in the victory against Mount Union (2/6)
High School
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude with honors
  • Class President
  • Member of National Honor Society
  • High School coach was Danny Diaz
  • 2x state qualifierĀ 
  • 2x conference champion
  • 4x district qualifier
  • 13ABC's Athlete of the Week
Academics & Personal
  • Daughter of Slate and Mary Kessler
  • Member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and Pre-Dental Club
  • Member of Cleveland Hillel
  • Member of Dr. James Watling'sĀ research lab
  • Member of the Sustainability Committee
  • Completed dental internship with Dr. Ivy Batos, DMD
  • Summer Volunteer at Nature Center at Shaker Lakes
  • Chose JCU because "of the science program, the swimming program, and the city of Cleveland!"

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    Freestyle
    5'4"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Freestyle
  • 2022-23Junior

    Freestyle

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