After a brilliant career as a student-athlete at two Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference institutions, Kelsea Wright is in her first season as the Mavs’ graduate assistant coach.
While coaching, she will be pursuing a master’s degree in sport management after completing her bachelor’s degree at CMU in exercise science.
The American Canyon, California native earned seven CSCAA All-America honors and won three RMAC titles in her time as a Maverick swimmer helping the Mavs win each of the last three conference team titles since transferring from Dixie State, now known as Utah Tech University, in St. George, for the 2020-21 campaign.
In her 5-year collegiate career, Wright earned 11 All-RMAC honors, including four first team plaudits. Eight of those All-RMAC certificates came during the CMU portion of her career, which saw her win the 200-yard freestyle and 800 free relay in 2022 after helping the Mavs win the 400 free relay in 2021.
Wright was a 3-time NCAA Division II Championship qualifier and earned five total CSCAA All-America certificates in her first year at CMU, including a first team honor in the 800 free relay.
She then followed that up in her 2021-22 redshirt junior season with a fifth place in the 200 free at the NCAA Championships while also leading the Mavs to a third place finish in the 800 free relay.
Her 2022-23 fifth year season was hampered by injuries although Wright was still able to set a pair of NCAA provisional qualifying times at her final RMAC Championships and went on to earn Second Team Scholar All-America honors from the CSCAA for her academic successes.
A CMU relay school-record holder, Wright still ranks fourth in CMU history for both the 200 and 500 free disciplines and left Dixie State as the Trailblazers’ school-record holder in five events, since broken at the now NCAA Division I institution.
