Kelsey Drain has been honored as the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year from Carpinteria High.
Kelsey Drain carries a 4.50 GPA and plays three sports at Carpinteria High.
Drain is a three-sport star for the Warriors: cross country, soccer and track. She also is the captain for all three teams.
As a junior, she was honored by the Round Table as a Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award recipient.
She carries a 4.75 grade-point average and ranks fourth in her senior class.
One of her interests is animal science. She is a four-year member of Carpinteria’s Future Farmers of America organization and a chapter president. She has raised and shown two goats and a steer.
Her academic interest for college include sports medicine and animal sciences. Among the schools she’s interested in are Montana State, Boise State, Ohio State and several UC schools.
Her parents, Matt and Kim Drain, attended Montana State. Her father played football and her mother was a body builder.
In college athletics, she’d like to do the heptathlon.
Kelsey has been an all-league performer in all three sports she’s competed. She was the team MVP in soccer last season. In track, she holds Carpinteria records in the pole vault, 100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hurdles.
She said she enjoys the contrasts of the sports she does — “the supportiveness of cross country and the fierce competitiveness of soccer and track.”
She will always remember the “great rivalry between Carpinteria and Bishop, because it always made all the players bring their ‘A’ game.”
