Kayley Alioto, a Madison, Wis. native, comes to McKendree as the new Graduate Assistant Diving Coach.
Alioto’s accolades from University of Wisconsin – La Crosse support her credibility. She served as team caption and was named UW- La Crosse’s Female Athlete of the Year her senior year (2018), and set several records for the program, including the three-meter 6 (regular) and 11 (championship) dives pool record, one-meter 11 dive school record, and three-meter 6 (regular) and 11 (championship) dives school record.
In the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC), Alioto was the three-meter and one-meter diving champion (2017, 2018) and Diver of the Year (2017, 2018). In all four of her seasons at UW-La Crosse, she qualified for the NCAA Division-III Regional Qualifiers. She was a three-time NCAA Division-III national qualifier. She is a four-time NCAA All-American honors holder: 10th-place in the three-meter dive (2016), sixth-place in the three-meter dive (2017), and 14th-place in the one-meter and fourth-place in the three-meter (2018).