#15 Kelly Chandler Season 2014-15

Honors
2015 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
2014 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
2014 ALC Offensive Player of the Week
2013 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2015 (Redshirt Sophomore): Played and started five games before suffering season-ending ACL injury in practice… At time of injury, led team with 28 draw controls for an even 100 for her career for sixth-most in program history… Also had 13 goals and one assist for 14 points… Scored multiple goals in four games, including tying a career-high five goals against Liberty…. Named to Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll.

2014 (Sophomore): Played and started in 15 games… Led team with 50 draw controls despite missing two games due to a leg injury… Finished second on team with 27 goals and fourth with 32 points… Team’s top returning scorer heading into 2015… Scored multiple goals in seven games… She notched a career-high five goals against Louisville on March 18… Also scored four goals three times — against Kennesaw State, Penn State and Johns Hopkins… Named ALC Offensive Player of the Week after scoring four goals in a 12-11 upset of previously undefeated No. 9 Johns Hopkins… During a torrid four-game stretch in March, concluding against Johns Hopkins, she scored 16 goals… Tied a career-high four times with five draw controls against Stanford, Louisville, Ohio State and Northwestern… Also tied career-highs with four ground balls against Penn and three caused turnovers against Massachussets… Currently ranks seventh on the Vanderbilt career list with 72 draw controls in two years… Named to Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll.

2013 (Freshman):Played in 13 games and started 11… Finished fifth on the team with 16 goals, which were third-most on the team among freshmen… Amassed 10 goals in five of the first six games… Started her scoring tear with a career-high four goals against Kennesaw State… Tallied three goals at Duke and Penn State… Her 22 draw controls were second on the team to only Alexa Kunowsky… Tied for the team-most with five draw controls against Northwestern… Also had two assists and 10 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers… Forced three turnovers apiece against Denver and Louisville… Named to SEC’s First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

High School:Four-year starter for coach Jen Fitzpatrick at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. … As a junior, she helped lead her team to a state championship a year after winning the division title… Named honorable mention All-America as a sophomore and regional All-America as a junior… Received All-State honors twice … Her club team, M&D Black, coached by Scott Robinson, won five titles, including a Galaxy National Championship during an undefeated 2012 season. Also played field hockey, basketball and squash.

Personal:Kelly Malloy Chandler… Born Dec. 13, 1993, in Salisbury, Md. …. Daughter of Gary and Erin Chandler… Has four sisters: Lindsey Hall (30), Lisa Moore (28), Kristen Chandler (24), Jenn Moore (19); and two brothers: Jake Chandler (31) and Aidan Tacheron (28). Sister to Chris and Jack… Kristin played lacrosse and won a Division III national championship at Salisbury (Md.) University… Major in interdisciplinary studies: psychology and group dynamics… Favorites include: Ben Howard (musical performer), Dodgeball or Green Mile (movie), Pinterest (internet site), breakfast burrito (midnight snack), Bo Jackson (athlete to watch in another sport) and live music (aspect of Nashville).