Kennedy Tranel

ISU FR Kennedy Tranel competing in the W 500 Freestyle at the 2018 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championship at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Thursday, February 22, 2018.

Photo by: Liz Parke

Position:
Mid. Distance/Butterfly
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Mukwonago
Hometown:
Mukwonago, Wis.

Personal Records

Event	Time	Opponent
50 Free	0:24.39	Non-ISU
100 Free	0:51.53	2021 Big 12 Championship
200 Free	1:50.94	2020 Big 12 Championship
500 Free	4:58.99	2021 Big 12 Championship
100 Fly	0:57.19	Non-ISU
200 Fly	2:06.06	Non-ISU
200 IM	2:09.38	2019 Last Chance Meet

Awards and Honors

Team Captain (2020-21)

Academic All Big-12 First Team: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21

Dr. Gerald Lage Award (2021)

2020-21 (Senior)

Placed 16th in the 200 free (1:52.12), 19th in the 500 free (4:58.99) and 21st in the 100 free (51.77) at the Big 12 Championship … her 100 free time of 51.53 in prelims and 500 free time of 4:58.99 in ‘C’ finals at the conference championship set PRs … top-five performer on the team in the 100, 200 and 500 free … swam third leg of the fourth-fastest all-time 400 free relay and seventh-fastest 800 free relay … totaled five top-five finishes … named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team ... earned the Dr. Gerald Lage Award.

2019-20 (Junior)

Top-five Cyclone on the team in the 100 free, 200 free, 500 free, 1650 free, 200 fly and the 400 IM … broke two five-year-old PRs at the Big 12 Championship, her 100 and 200 free PRs with times of 52.09 and 1:50.94 … placed 12^th in the mile (17:36.30), 13^th in the 400 IM (4:30.02) and 14^th in the 200 fly (2:08.75) at the conference meet … scored in the 200 fly with her 15^th-place finish of 2:11.00 at the Kansas Classic … ranked 19^th all-time in the 200 free (1:50.94) and 16^th in the 400 IM (4:30.02) … won the 200 fly with a time of 2:12.71 against South Dakota and logged a total of eight top-five finishes in 200 free, 500 free and 200 fly events … named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

2018-19 (Sophomore)
Ranked as a top-five Cyclone in the 200 fly and 500 free … earned 10 top-five finishes in her sophomore season … finished a season-best second place in the 1000 free (11:07.77) at South Dakota State … scored in the 200 free (15th, 1:54.58) at the Kansas Classic … swam in exhibition at the Big 12 Championships … competed in the 200 free (26th, 1:53.04), 500 free (31st, 5:05.44) and 200 fly (23rd, 2:08.70) … named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

017-18 (Freshman)
Ended the year with six top-five finishes … ranked third in Iowa State’s top-five 200 butterfly swimmers … scored in the 500 free (16^th, 5:09.31) and 200 fly (13^th, 2:08.51), while qualifying for the ’C’ final in the 100 fly (23^rd, 58.72) and 200 free (17^th, 1:54.21) at the Kansas Classic … finished in the top-three in the 200 fly (2:11.50) and 500 free (5:21.57) against Omaha … competed in the 50 free (25^th, 5:04.17), 200 free (30^th, 1:53.55) and 200 fly (22^nd, 2:10.88) at the Big 12 Championships.

High School
Swam for Waukesha South/Mukwonago and the Waukesha Express swim teams under Blaine Carlson ... member of three All-State teams from 2014-16 ... 2014 All-American in the 400 freestyle relay ... team captain and MVP in 2016.

Personal
Daughter of Andy and Rachel Tranel .... has two siblings, a brother Sage and sister Emersyn ... born March 8, 1999 ... majoring in supply chain management and business analytics.