Lexie Kelly

Lexie Kelly is a nominee for the 2021 WOWSA Awards in the World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year category

Former professional marathon swimmer Lexie Kelly of Long Beach, California

Lexie Kelly in Aquadeus France Swimwear. Photo by Don Le (donlestudio.com)

Lexie Kelly, professional marathon swimmer with a SponsorMySwim campaign

Olympic champion Rebecca Soni and professional marathon swimmer Lexie Kelly swimming in the Florida Keys with The Race Club

Lexie Kelly models the Lexie Kelly Signature Collection Neon Coral Custom Swimsuit for Ryte Sport

Lexie Kelly in Laguna Beach. Photo by Don Le (donlestudio.com) wearing Aquadeus Swimwear

Lexie Kelly, Swim Coordinator, Flowers Sea Swim and Bridging The Cayman Islands - photo courtesy of Image by Spike

Lexie Kelly, member of the Open Water Swim Club

Lexie Kelly, coordinator for the 2011 Flowers Sea Swim

Lexie Kelly set a world open water swimming record in the Cayman Islands - photo courtesy of Norma Connelly

Lexie Kelly, professional marathon swimmer on the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix

Lexie Kelly manning a lifeguard tower at Sunset Beach in Southern California

Lexie Kelly, reporter for the Daily News of Open Water Swimming

Lexie Kelly of Open Water Source

Lexie Kelly of Open Water Swimming - photo courtesy of Image by Spike

Lexie Kelly (Λεξι Κελλυ born 6 December in Hemet, California) is an American pool and open water swimmer and coach from Newport Beach, California. A 2009 graduate of California State University Bakersfield, she brings energy, ocean knowledge, organizational skills and a personable ambiance to the open water swimming world. . She started swimming at the age of six months and has never figuratively left the water.

Professional Marathon Swimming

She is a professional marathon swimmer who competed on the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit including a fifth-place finish at the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Quebec, Canada.

Promotional Videos

Lexie Kelly in SBR Sports TriSwim promotional video

Lexie Kelly in a Race Club Swimisodes - Improve Freestyle Technique video

Lexie Kelly in Endless Pools promotional video

Lexie Kelly in Endless Pools promotional video

Lexie Kelly in RYTE Sport promotional video

Lexie Kelly in a Mental Illness Awareness Week promotional video by the National Alliance on Mental Awareness' #curestigma program

Lexie Kelly in the 2014 Swim for Alligator Lighthouse promotional video

Lexie Kelly in a Race Club Swimisodes - Yoga for Swimmers - Core Exercise

Lexie Kelly in a Race Club Swimisodes - Freestyle Swim Drills - 6 Kick 1 Stroke drill

Lexie Kelly in a Race Club Swimisodes - Resistance Stretch Chord Swimming

Lexie Kelly in a Race Club Swimisodes - Yoga for Swimmers - Shoulders

Lexie Kelly in a Race Club Swimisodes - Yoga for Swimmers - Legs

Lexie Kelly in SBR Sports TriSwim promotional video

Records

She holds two open water swimming records - one from swimming from Cayman Brac to Little Cayman in the Cayman Brac Channel and one as part of the Long Beach Swim Focus Catalina Relay in October 2011 that set the overall Catalina Channel record of 6 hours 53 minutes 4 seconds.
She won the women's overall title at the 2013 U.S. Masters Swimming national 10 km open water swimming championships in Lake Mead, California.

Open Water Swimming Highlights

A former NCAA swimmer and a current world open water swimming record holder, Kelly understands the DNA of the aquatic world.
After her pool swimming career, Kelly transferred her passion and talents to open water swimming after she moved to Long Beach, California.
She is a beach lifeguard for OC Lifeguards in Orange County, California.
She was the 25-29 age group winner of the 2012 SPMS Open Water Series in Southern California.
She was nominated for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year award.
She is one of the top masters swimmers in the Go The Distance program at U.S. Masters Swimming.
Her personable ambassadorial style and organizational skills help bring together hundreds of athletes together in open water swims in the Cayman Islands where she hosts numerous Olympians, world champions and VIPs from several countries.
Her skills extend to safely organizing marathon swims (e.g., Penny Palfrey andDiana Nyad) where athletes must overcome currents, waves, jellyfish, and sharks in the open ocean.
She has helped athletes complete Catalina Channel crossings and has lifeguarded on beaches throughout Southern California throughout her career.
She serves as an Ambassador and Social Marketing Manager with SBR Sports.
She is a coach for Newport Beach Swimming and the Open Water Swim Club.
She was the 2011 Flowers Sea Swim Coordinator and organizer of the Bridging The Cayman Islands event in the Cayman Islands. Kelly was the 2011 organizer for the richest open water swimming event in the world and the largest open water race in the Caribbean – the Flowers Sea Swim.
She organized the unprecedented 67.26-mile Bridging The Cayman Islands marathon swim by Penny Palfrey.
She coordinated the 5-mile Cayman Brac Channel Challenge.
She co-organized the Swim Across America Long Beach 2011.
She served as one of the co-organizers of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California.
She serves as the media director for the Waikiki Roughwater Swim
She is a swimwear model with a cover magazine to her credit.
She is a Swim Guide for the 2017 Swim Cruise in Croatia.
She stars on the Race Club's Swimisodes program.
She coaches club swimmers, high school swimmers, masters swimmers, competitive swimmers and open water swimmers in Newport Beach, California.
She competed in the 3-mile Naples Island Swim in Long Beach, California on 15 August 2021.

2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nomination

Kelly was nominated for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year award. Her World Open Water Swimming Association nomination reads, 365 days per day behind the scenes, Lexie Kelly helps promote open water swimmers and archives a plethora of information on all aspects of the open water community. Quietly and without fanfare or expectations, she organizes conferences and awards ceremonies to honor open water luminaries. Day and night, weekday and weekend, holidays and not, she works tirelessly to maintain a variety of data bases on events, terms and athletes. She writes articles while traveling to 4 continents and researches swimmers to freely share on Openwaterpedia and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. She answers thousands of emails throughout the year - day in and day out - offering advice and helping swimmers realize their dreams. For her non-stop passion to document and archive information on the sport, for her year-round enthusiasm to promote events and encourage her fellow swimmers, for her infectiously cheerful outlook that breeds a joyful ambiance wherever she goes, Lexie Kelly’s year-round work is a worthy nominee for the 2012 WOWSA Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.

Coaching

Newport Beach Swimming - 2014 - current
NOVA Masters Swimming - current
Equinox H2O Group Fitness - 2016 - current
Newport Harbor High School - 2015 Boys Season, 2016 Girls Season
Long Beach State Masters Swimming 2013 - 2014 - Long Beach, California, USA
LISA (Lebanese International Swimming Association) - November 2013 Camp - Beirut, Lebanon
Swimming Wellness (Long Beach Memorial Hospital) - 2012 Long Beach, California
Long Beach Killer Bees Summer program - 2011-2012 - Long Beach, California USA
Dwyer Middle School - Huntington Beach, California, USA
Cayman Islands Camps
Private triathlon/open water/pool coaching - children to adults - EMAIL = lexie@newportbeachswimming.com

Open Water Swims

2019 1-mile San Clemente Ocean Festival - Women's Overall Winner - San Clemente Beach, California
2019 2-mile Newport Beach Pier-to-Pier Swim - Women's Overall Winner - Newport Beach, California
2019 1-mile Swim The Avenues - Women's Overall Winner - Redondo Beach, California
2019 Flowers Sea Swim - Women's Overall Winner - Cayman Islands
2019 Midmar Mile - Women's Age Group Winner - South Africa
2018 1-mile Swim The Avenues - Women's Overall Winner - Redondo Beach, California
2018 Midmar Mile - Women's Age Group Winner - South Africa
2018 2-mile Newport Beach Pier-to-Pier Swim - Women's Overall Winner - Newport Beach, California
2018 Swim The Avenues, Redondo Beach, California - 1st
2017 Tiki Swim, Oceanside, California - 1st
2017 Naples Island Swim & SUP, Long Beach, California - 1st
2017 Samsung Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race, Turkey
2017 Midmar Mile, South Africa
2017 Swim Cruise guide and coach
2016 Tiki Swim, California
2016 Flowers International 5k and 10k Swim, Cayman Islands
2016 Flowers Sea Swim, Cayman Islands
2015 Mermaid Mafia captain at Trans Tahoe Relay
2015 Great North Swim 5 km + 3 x 1-mile + 2-mile
2015 Rio Negro Challenge Amazonia 30 km - 4th
2015 Stroke for Egypt 5 km and 10 km - Overall Winner
2014 Swim The Suck 10 miles - Women's Overall Winner
2014 Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli FINA Grand Prix Italy - 36 km
2014 Faros Marathon 16 km - 6th
2014 Great Scottish Swim - (elite race) 6th
2014 Naples Island Swim 5K - Overall Winner
2014 Newport Pier-2-Pier Swim - Women's Overall Winner
2014 Traversée Internationale du lac Memphrémagog, Quebec, Canada - 34 km
2014 Michele Daschbach Fast Memorial Ocean Swim - Women's Overall winner
2014 Great North Swim - 5 km (elite race -non wetsuit)
2014 Tabarca to Alicante 22 km marathon swim, Spain
2014 Nadadores Rough Water Swim - 2.4 mile Women's overall winner
2014 Stroke for Egypt 5 km & 10 km - Women's Overall winner Hurghada, Egypt
2014 Midmar Mile 8 Mile Club, South Africa
2013 King and Queen of the Sea (Desafio Rei e Rainha do Mar, 1st beach biathlon
2013 RCP Tiburon Mile, San Francisco
2013 Malibu Triathlon: Swim Leg, Girls Relay Team Overall Winners
2013 Faros Marathon Swim, Stari Grad, Croatia - 16 km - 8th
2013 Ohrid Lake Swimming Marathon, Ohrid, Macedonia - 30 km - 8th
2013 Island Vis, Croatia - 2 km sprint - 3rd
2013 Split 10K, Split, Croatia - 2nd
2013 Michele Daschbach Fast Memorial Ocean Swim - Women's Overall winner
2013 Traversée Internationale du lac Memphrémagog, Quebec, Canada - 34K - 8th
2013 Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, Roberval, Quebec, Canada - 5th
2013 Newport Pier-2-Pier Swim Women's Overall winner
2013 Seal Beach Rough Water Swim 5 km
2013 Flowers International 5k and 10k Swim, Cayman Islands
2013 Flowers Sea Swim, Cayman Islands
2013 U.S. Masters Swimming national 10 km championships - Lake Mead, Nevada
2013 Maratón Acuática Internacional Ciudad de Rosario 15 km - Rosario, Argentina
2013 Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda 57 km - Santa Fe, Argentina
2013 Travessia Mar Grande Salvador in Bahia, Brasil
2012 King and Queen of the Sea, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2012 Pirates Week 5K Swim, Grand Cayman Islands
2012 Slam the Dam overall women's Grand Slam winner and record holder - Lake Mead, Nevada
2012 2nd International Masters Swim for Tsunami Relief (Japan) 3K Overall Winner
2012 83rd Annual Labor Day Swim Oceanside
2012 Don Burns - Corona Del Mar Women's Overall winner
2012 Naples Island Swim 5K
2012 Newport Pier-2-Pier Swim Women's Overall winner
2012 Serpentine Swim Club 3 x 110 yd swim (Hyde Park, United Kingdom)
2012 Michele Daschbach Fast Memorial Ocean Swim - Women's Overall winner
2012 Seal Beach Roughwater Swim 5K
2012 Flowers Sea Swim - Cayman Islands
2012 Swim Miami
2012 Bayshore Triathlon (swim leg)
2012 Tiki Swim
2011 King and Queen of the Sea (Brazil) 3K Female Winner
2011 EQCA Malibu Swim for Equality - Winner
2011 Naples Island Swim 5K
2011 Long Beach Triathlon (swim leg) - Team (Tavern on 2) Win
2011 Orangeman Triathlon (swim leg)
2011 82nd Annual Labor Day Swim Oceanside
2011 Don Burns - Corona Del Mar
2011 Traverse Internationale 5K (Quebec, Canada)- 3rd Overall Woman
2011 Seal Beach Roughwater Swim 5K
2011 Catalina Channel - Long Beach Swim Focus Catalina Relay
2011 Butterfield Bank 800m (Cayman Islands)
2011 Cayman Brac 800m (Cayman Islands) - Women's Overall Winner
2011 Cayman Brac to Little Cayman (5 Mile)
2011 Lime 800m (Cayman Islands)
2011 4th of July Coronado Roughwater Swim
2011 1st International Masters Swim for Tsunami Relief (Japan) 3K - Women's Overall Winner
2010 4th of July Coronado Roughwater Swim
2010 Naples Island Swim
2010 Marine's Stadium 4K Pursuit
2005 La Jolla Gatorman
2000 Whiskeytown 1 Mile Swim
On 27 January 2013, she finished 23rd in the 15 km Maraton Acuatica Internacional Ciudad de Rosario in Argentina in 2 hours 10 minutes 57 seconds at the age of 26.
On 3 February 2013, she finished 21st in the 57 km Maraton Santa Fe-Coronda in Argentina in 9 hours 32 minutes 55 seconds at the age of 26.
On 18 May 2013, she won the 10 km race in Lake Mead in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2 hours 14 minutes 49 seconds at the age of 26.
On 17 June 2013, she finished 10th overall in the Flowers International 10K in Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman in 2 hours 25 minutes 52 seconds at the age of 26.
On 27 July 2013, she finished 16th overall in the 32 km Traversee internationale du lac St-Jean in Quebec, Canada in 7 hours 33 minutes 13 seconds at the age of 26.
On 3 August 2013, she finished 16th overall in the 34 km Traversee internationale du lac Memphremagog in Quebec, Canada in 8 hours 51 minutes 41 seconds at the age of 26.
On 24 August 2013, she finished 23rd overall in the 30 km Ohrid Swim Marathon in Macedonia in 6 hours 13 minutes 40 seconds at the age of 26.
On 31 August 2013, she finished 19th in the 16 km Faros Marathon Swim in Croatia in 3 hours 35 minutes 42 seconds at the age of 26.
On 2 August 2014, she finished 18th in the 34 km Traversee internationale du lac Memphremagog in Quebec, Canada in 8 hours 23 minutes 51 seconds at the age of 27.
On 30 August 2014, she finished 17th overall in the 16 km Faros Marathon Swim in Croatia in 3 hours 46 minutes 26 seconds at the age of 27. *On 7 September 2014, she finished 21st overall in the 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in Italy in 7 hours 25 minutes 25 seconds at the age of 27.
On 11 October 2014, she finished 4th overall in the 16.6 km Swim The Suck in Tennessee in 3 hours 8 minutes 29 seconds at the age of 27.
On 15 July 2018, she won the 1-mile Swim The Avenues in Redondo Beach, California.
On 14 July 2018, she won the 2-mile Newport Pier-to-Pier Swim in Newport Beach, California.

Videos

WOWSA Live Interview

with Hank Wise, Lyle Nalli, Ted Bramble and Benjamin Landis on WOWSA Live

2021 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year Nomination

She was nominated for the 2021 World Open Water Swimming Women of the Year Award. The winners and nominees of this category in the 2021 WOWSA Awards include:

Winner: Kate Steels (Great Britain)
First Runner-up: Elaine Burrows Dillane (Ireland)
Second Runner-up: Abhejali Bernardová (Czech Republic)
4. Mayra Santos (Brazil)
5. Merle Liivand (Estonia)
6. Shu Pu (Hong Kong)
7. Sarah Thomas (USA)
8. Amy Ennion (Great Britain)
9. Lexie Kelly (USA)
10. Maria Cotignolo (Uruguay)
11. Chloë McCardel (Australia)
12. Ana Marcela Cunha (Brazil)
13. Abigail Fairman (USA)
14. Kerry Kopke (South Africa)
15. Carina Bruwer (South Africa)

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