Kelsey Reott – Women’s Swimming and Diving Coach

Princeton welcomes Kelsey Reott as an assistant coach with its girls’s swimming and diving staff as introduced by head coach Abby Brethauer.

Reott joins the Tigers after spending the 2022-23 season on workers at Pittsburgh the place coached each the boys’s and ladies’s applications and helped the Panthers to interrupt 31 program information, noticed 15 student-athletes qualify for the NCAA championships, 5 people earn All-American honors, and two divers qualify for the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials.

Before her time at Pitt, Reott spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Bucknell the place she helped information the ladies’s program to a pair of second place finishes within the Patriot League Championship, whereas the boys’s program positioned fourth in 2020 and third in 2022. She was part of the Patriot League Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year in 2020 and the Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year in 2022. During the 2021-22 season, the 2 Bison applications mixed to interrupt 17 information. Reott labored primarily with the butterfly, endurance and non IM swimmers, whereas additionally executing practices with the dash medley group and recruiting for each the boys’s and ladies’s applications.

 

A former standout swimmer at Westminster College, Reott joined the Bucknell workers following stints as a graduate assistant swimming & diving coach and admissions counselor at her alma mater. During her time as a graduate assistant coach with the Titans, Reott was answerable for creating, planning and implementing exercises. She was additionally closely concerned in recruiting, a energy she constructed upon as an admissions counselor. Reott helped the ladies’s staff to their first Presidents Athletic Conference Championship in 12 years, whereas the boys’s staff positioned second within the convention.

As a student-athlete for Westminster College from 2012 to 2016, Reott excelled in backstroke and IM occasions. At the PAC Championships, she reached the ‘A’ finals 11 instances, inserting as excessive because the runner-up. She was a two-time staff captain, four-time All-PAC First Team honoree and was additionally named to the PAC Academic Honor Roll.

Reott acquired her bachelor’s diploma in PreK-4 Early Childhood Education/PreK-8 Special Education from Westminster College in 2016. She obtained her grasp’s diploma in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at her alma in 2021. Following her faculty commencement, Reott spent one 12 months as an eighth-grade particular schooling instructor in Virginia’s Culpeper County Public Schools; throughout that point, she additionally served as the top coach of BASS Swim Team. During the 2023-24 educational 12 months, she taught Okay-2 particular schooling at Moraine Elementary School in her dwelling district.

A local of Butler, Pa., Reott certified for the PIAA AA State Championships as a junior and senior at Slippery Rock High School.