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Career Accolades

  • Two-time Pac-12 Champion (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Tournament champion (2021, 2022)
  • USA Lacrosse Magazine All-American Honorable Mention (2022)
  • Two-time All-Pac-12 First Team (2022-23)
  • Pac-12 Tournament MVP (2022)
  • All-Pac-12 Tournament Team (2022)
  • IWLCA Academic Honor Roll (2023)
  • Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021-23)

As a Junior (2023)

  • All-Pac-12 First Team
  • IWLCA Academic Honor Roll
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Played in all 18 games, starting each
  • Scored 34 goals, the third-most on the team
  • Also recorded seven assists for 41 points
  • Grabbed 52 draw controls, the second-most on the team
  • Had a season-high five goals at Jacksonville (February 20)
  • Had a season-high seven draw controls at California (April 28)

As a Sophomore (2022) • Pac-12 Champions, Pac-12 Tournament Champions

  • USA Lacrosse Magazine All-American Honorable Mention
  • All-Pac-12 First Team
  • Pac-12 Tournament MVP
  • All-Pac-12 Tournament Team 
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Played in 18 games, starting each
  • Scored 43 goals, the third-most on the team, and recorded two assists for 45 points
  • Tied her career-high mark of five goals against Arizona State in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game (May 7)
  • Third on the team in shots with 74
  • Scored the game-winning goal against California (March 11)

As a Freshman (2021) • Pac-12 Champions, Pac-12 Tournament Champions

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Played in all 12 games, making eight starts
  • Scored 25 goals and recorded nine assists for 34 points
  • Scored the game-winning goal at Fresno State (March 31) and versus Arizona State (May 6) in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2020 graduate of Bayport-Blue Point High School in Bayport, N.Y.
  • Five-time letterwinner, captained her team as a senior
  • 2019 Suffolk County champions, Long Island championship appearance
  • Three-time Suffolk County finalists (2016, 2017, 2019)
  • 2019 Second Team All-American
  • 2019 all-county
  • 2019 First Team Newsday All-Long Island
  • 2018 all-county honorable mention
  • Two-time Under Armour All-America Underclass Long Island Team (2016, 2017)
  • 2017 all-division
  • 2016 all-tournament
  • No. 22 overall 2020 recruit by Inside Lacrosse
  • Also earned five letters in soccer and track
    • In soccer, named all-league (2016) and all-division (2019)
    • In track, five-time all-league (2016-20) and Athlete of the Season Award (2018-19)

Personal

  • Daughter of Niall and Cathleen Kelly
  • Has an older sister, Caitlin, and twin younger sisters, Maura and Mairead
    • Caitlin plays Division III lacrosse at United States Coast Guard Academy
  • Full name is Ailish Mary Kelly