2008 Soccer Roster
Roster
Kelsey Kitchings
- Position:
- D
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School/Previous School:
- Hoover HS
- Hometown:
- Hoover, Ala.
AS A FRESHMAN (2008):
- Named to the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.
- Played in seven games during her rookie season, logging 118 minutes of field time.
- Logged a season-high 31 minutes in a 2-1 loss to Memphis.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB:
- Starred for Todd Schaefer at Hoover (Ala.) High School.
- Played club soccer for Eric Dade's Birmingham United '90 Elite.
- Named Birmingham All-Metro along with MSU teammate Kim Pettit in 2008.
- Named the Lady Bucs' defensive Most Valuable Player in 2005 and 2006.
- Helped Hoover to the Section 5 finals in 2005.
- Competed on Birmingham United's nine state championship teams.
- Helped the United to the Regional III semifinals in 2008 after earning a third quarterfinals slot the previous year.
- Won three-straight Region III league titles with Birmingham United.
- Led the team to the Atlanta Cup and the finals of the Disney Soccer Showcase in 2007.
- Played on the United squad that won the Disney Soccer Showcase in 2006.
- Captured the 2005 Germantown Invitational championship.
- Won the 2004 Coaches Award.
- Member of Alabama's Olympic Development Program five of the last six years.
- Named a Southern Region Pool selection in 2007.
- Selected to play against Mexico's U17 National Team.
PERSONAL:
- Born Kelsey Elyse Kitchings on Apr. 10, 1990, in Birmingham, Ala.
- Daughter of Bill and Lynn Kitchings.
- A physical education major concentrating in clinical exercise physiology.
