Jody McKellar

Position:
All Around
Height:
5-1
Class:
Redshirt Senior
High School:
Bishop Carroll
Hometown:
Calgary, Alberta

Awards and Honors
ISU co-Most Improved Gymnast (2009)
Academic All-Big 12 Second Team (2008, 2010)
Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (2007, 2009, 2010)
ISU Scholar-Athlete (2009)
Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2011)
Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week (Jan. 25, 2011; Feb. 22, 2011)
Team Sky High Award (2011)
Mari-Rae Sopper Award (Jan. 21, 2011; Feb. 11, 2011; Feb. 18, 2011; March 4, 2011)

2011
Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week (Feb. 22) and co-winner on Jan. 25...Academic All-Big 12 First Team...tied Iowa State’s all-time bars high score with a 9.950 against Iowa...earned the Iowa State team Sky High Award...set career highs on the three events (vault,beam and bars) she competed on in her senior season...concluded her career with one of her best meets as Cyclone, scoring a career-high 9.850 on vault and posting 9.850 on bars and 9.775 on beam at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional...set a career high on beam at Nebraska with an event-winning 9.875...scored an event-winning 9.900 on bars against Missouri...tied for the bars title at BYU...tallied 9.900 on bars against Oklahoma...won bars at home against Minnesota with a 9.900...scored 9.800 on beam in back-to-back meets (at Minnesota and at Iowa)...competed on vault and bars at every Iowa State meet...won Iowa State’s Mari-Rae Sopper Award at the Cyclones’ last four home meets of 2011.

2010
Academic All-Big 12 second-team recipient...scored career highs on bars (9.900) and vault (9.825) at Minnesota, earning the bars title...suffered an ankle injury on her vault landing at Pitt, sidelining her for the remaining two ISU events at the meet...ankle injury kept her out of the floor lineup for the final eight meets...competed in a total of 11 meets...posted a 9.875 on bars against Minnesota...scored a 9.850 on bars and 9.800 on beam at Nebraska...set a career high on floor (9.825) and tied a career best in the all-around (39.100) against BYU and Michigan...in the all-around at Missouri, scored a 39.000, with a 9.850 on beam...won the vault title with a 9.725 and placed second in the all-around in season-opening win over Wisconsin-Stout...scored a 9.800 on bars at the Big 12 Championship.

2009
Took home the all-around title at Nebraska with a 39.050 buoyed by 9.800s on vault and bars and a 9.775 on beam...a member of the Cyclone vault lineup for every meet, while also being a regular on bars and beam...named the ISU co-Most Improved Gymnast...made her career debut on floor and in the all-around at Minnesota, scoring a 9.800 and 39.100, respectively....tied a career high on beam with a 9.825 at Iowa...registered a career-best 9.800 on vault at Minnesota...tallied a career-best 9.850 on bars en route to tying Jasmine Thompson for the event title against Nebraska...put together a 9.825 routine on bars at Auburn to tie for third...tallied a 9.800 on bars against West Virginia...notched a 9.775 on vault and a 9.800 on both bars and beam against Oklahoma...notched a 9.775 on vault and 9.750s on bars and beam at the NCAA North Central Regional...registered a 9.750 on vault, bars and beam at Big 12 Championship...scored 9.750 on both vault and bars against Minnesota...earned second career letter.

2008
An All-Big 12 academic second-team selection...made Iowa State debut after missing last season with an injury...competed on both bars and beam...scored season-high 9.825 on beam to tie for 10th at the NCAA Northeast Regional...tied for eighth (9.800) on bars at the Big 12 Championship...at Georgia put together a 9.725 on beam...scored 9.725 on bars and 9.750 on beam at Nebraska...earned career high on bars (9.800) and added 9.750 on beam at Iowa to finish fourth in both events...fifth on bars (9.725) against Iowa...tallied 9.750 on bars at Oklahoma...fifth on bars (9.750) and scored 9.725 on beam at Minnesota...scored 9.675 on beam in season-opener against Nebraska.

2007
Redshirted the season after suffering an injury in preseason workouts.

Before Iowa State
Canadian National Open all-around champion in 2006.

Personal
Born March 6, 1988...daughter of Rod and Sue McKellar...coached by Dennis Swenson, Sue Raffin and Jim Mullond at Calgary Gymnastics Center...elementary education major.