Jaelen Kelly '19 Recruiting Profile

I was only a few days old when I was first introduced to sports, I followed behind my older brother for my entire childhood. Whether it had been, Hockey rinks, Lacrosse arenas, Volleyball gyms or Baseball diamonds, I was always tagging along and from him I developed my love of sports. I would not be who I am today without sports, I use sports as my motivation for everything in my life, and everything in my life as my motivation for sports. I focus my grades, friends, lifestyle, and all the choices I make on the fact that I would like to go to post-secondary, play for a university/college team and further my education. I love sports because I know it’s more than just going through the motions. I love learning the game itself and everything it can teach you, I love putting in the effort in order to receive the results I desire, and I love being apart of something that can change people’s lives just like it did for me. I would like to study Kinesiology and Sports Physiology because I know I will not be able to play sports for the rest of my life but I would like to be involved with it as much as I can for as long as I can. I feel like I could be apart of so many different peoples lives.

Going into this spring season this will be my third season of playing softball, though I grew up playing boys baseball for 11 years. I recently made the transition over to softball from baseball a few years ago due to the fact that I wanted to play softball in post-secondary and possibly receive a scholarship. When I first joined softball I played for the Airdrie Angels community softball team as well as continuing to play for the Airdrie Aces Junior A Little League baseball team for that season, the Centennial All Star Boys Baseball summer team, and as well I played for the Team Alberta Women’s Baseball team during the summer for the last four years. My next two season of softball I played for the Calgary Adrenaline u16 A team, as well the Airdrie Aces Senior A Little League baseball team, the Team Alberta Women’s Baseball team, and I am currently playing for the 222’s Fast pitch Winter Travel team. My greatest Baseball career highlights and memories come from playing on Team Alberta, my first year I played for the Peewee Women’s team, we went undefeated in the Western Canadian Championship in Spruce Grove Alberta, and placed first overall to bring home a gold medal. I also received catcher and MVP of the tournament. My next year of Team Alberta I played for the Bantam Women’s team, we traveled to Saguenay Quebec and placed third in the Canadian National Championship. The year after that, again I played for the Bantam Women’s team. We traveled to Vaughan Ontario for Nationals and ended up placing fifth overall. This past season I also played for the Bantam team, we went undefeated until the final game where we fell just short of a gold medal, placing second in the country at the 2016 Bantam Women’s National Championship.