McKenna Kelley Season 2025
2019 Second Team All-American (FX)
2019 NCAA Baton Rouge Floor Exercise Champion
2019 Second-Team Regular Season All-American (FX)
2019 SEC Specialist of the Week (vs. Oregon State)
2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2017 First-Team All-American (FX)
2017 Second-Team Regular Season All-American (FX)
2017 SEC Floor Exercise Champion
2017 All-SEC
2017 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2016 SEC All-Freshman
2016 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
Wrapped up her career as a four-time All-American for the Tigers … Also captured the 2017 SEC Floor Exercise title and earned All-SEC honors … Graduated in May 2019 with her degree in psychology.
SENIOR SEASON (2019)
Scored a 9.8875 on vault and closed the NCAA Team Final with a 9.95 on floor … Wrapped up her career with All-America honors on floor after scoring a 9.925 in NCAA Semifinal I … Scored a 9.925 on floor and 9.85 on vault both days of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional … Put the finishing touches on the program’s third-straight SEC Championship with a 9.90 on floor … Also secured a 9.90 on vault at the league meet … Won her fourth career floor title with a 9.95 and also earned a 9.90 on vault at Arizona … Scored her first career 10 on floor as the anchor performer against Oregon State … Was named the SEC Specialist of the Week after her performance against the Beavers … Ended the night against Georgia with a 9.925 and earned a 9.875 on vault in the first rotation … Scored a 9.85 on vault at Arkansas … Set a career high on vault with a 9.925 for her first career title on the event and capped off the afternoon with a 9.95 on floor against Missouri … Anchored floor with a 9.90 at GymQuarters … Set a career high on beam with a 9.85 at Kentucky … Set a career high on vault with a 9.85, performed for the first time on beam and matched a career high of 9.975 on floor against NC State … Earned a 9.875 on floor at Alabama … Made her second vault lineup in her career and scored a 9.825 against Florida … Also anchored Florida with a 9.875 on floor against the Gators … Scored a 9.90 in her return to the floor in the season opener against Cal … Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
JUNIOR SEASON (2018)
Missed all of her junior season after rupturing her Achilles during training in November 2017 … Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2017)
Earned First-Team All-America honors on floor during NCAA Championship Semifinal II with a 9.95 in the fifth spot of the Tigers’ lineup … Posted a score of 9.90 on floor in the NCAA Super Six … Masterfully clinched the SEC Floor
Exercise title and the Tigers’ overall SEC Championship with a 9.95 in the fifth spot of the event … Performed her first career vault and scored a 9.825 against New Hampshire … Added a 9.925 in the fifth spot of the floor lineup against UNH … Earned a 9.90 on floor in the fifth spot to seal the Tigers’ 198 at home against Florida… Set a new career high on floor and captured her first career event title with a 9.975 on floor against George Washington and Iowa … Returned from time off with a 9.925 on floor at Arkansas … Missed meets against Kentucky and Missouri with a back injury … Earned a 9.875 on floor in the Tigers’ win at Alabama … Posted a 9.925 in the fifth spot of the Tigers’ floor lineup for second overall against Georgia … Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2016)
Competed on floor in 13 of 14 meets this season and missed only the Lady Luck Invitational … Hit her stride at the midway point of the season and put up great scores on floor … Earned SEC All-Freshman honors when she posted a career-high tying 9.925 on floor at the SEC Championship … Also scored a 9.925 on floor against Auburn … Helped LSU achieve a school-record finish as the national runners-up with a 9.90 on floor in the NCAA Super Six … Her 9.925 against Auburn helped LSU tie the school record with a 49.700 team total … Suffered an ankle injury in November that limited her training all the way into the early part of the season … Earned a spot on the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL
Trained as an elite gymnast in 2015 and prior to that was a level 10 competitor at Stars Gymnastics for coaches Dan and Ashly Baker … Captured a share of the all-around title at the prestigious Nastia Liukin Cup in 2014 … Won the national floor title at the 2014 Junior Olympic National Championships … Finished in fifth place in the all-around at the 2013 JO National Championships … Placed in the top five in all four events and the all-around at the 2014 Region 3 Championships … Recorded a Top 10 finish in six of seven competitions in the 2014 club season … Attended Second Baptist School in Houston.
PERSONAL
Full name is McKenna Lane Kelley … Born April 15, 1997 in Houston, Texas … Daughter of Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Kelly … Her mother Mary Lou Retton won the gold medal in the all-around at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles … Her father Shannon Kelley was a quarterback at the University of Texas and is now assistant head coach/running backs coach at Houston Baptist University … Has three sisters, Shayla, Skyla and Emma … Shayla was a competitor on the Baylor University acrobatics and tumbling team.
KELLEY’S CAREER HIGHS
Vault: 9.925 (2-17-19 vs. Missouri)
Beam: 9.850 (2-8-19 at Kentucky)
Floor: 10.000 (3-15-19 at Arizona)
KELLEY’S CAREER INDIVIDUAL TITLES
Floor: 4
Total: 4