2016-17: Earned Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Team honors... Set a personal-best time of 27.17 in the 50-yard freestyle against Evansville... Recorded a personal-best time of 10:40.42 in the 1000-yard freestyle while swimming a personal-best 17:40.47 at the MVC Championships... Tallied a season-best time of 5:08.24 in the 500-yard freestyle at the MVC Championships — her second-best career time... Had a season-best time of 2:19.12 in the 200-yard backstroke against Saint Louis and Western Illinois... Recorded a season-best time of 4:36.79 in the 400-yard IM at the Kansas Classic.

2015-16: Named to Missouri Valley Conference's Scholar-Athlete Team... Set a personal-best in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:07.48 at the Little Rock Christmas Invitational... Recorded a personal-best time of 1:09.75 against Vanderbilt... Recorded a personal-best time of 1:59.05 in the 200-yard freestyle while swimming the 800-yard free relay in the Little Rock Christmas Invitational.

2014-15: Named an All-MVC Honorable Mention... Recorded a team-best time in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:07.36... Had three second-place finishes in the 200-yard IM, 400-yard IM and 1650-yard freestyle... Finished eighth in the final of the 400-yard IM at the MVC Championships with a career-best time of 4:33.87... Had three top-16 finishes at the MVC Championships.

2013-14: Tallied two top-20 finishes at the MVC Championships and just missed a third… Posted a season-best time of 4:40.93 in the 400 yard IM at the MVC meet and finished 16th… Finished 20th in the 500 yard freestyle with another season-best time at the conference championship with a time of 5:13.57… Picked up a third in the 1,000 yard freestyle at the Hendrix Classic with a time of 11:07.43… Also picked up a second at the UALR Christmas Invite with a time of 2:07.51 in the 200 yard backstroke… Finished second and third in the 100 yard backstroke and 200 yard backstroke at Kansas, respectively.

Fort Zumwalt West HS:  Swam all four seasons under head coach Andrew Spiegel at Fort Zumwalt West HS… Member of the Missouri State Championship 200 medley relay team in 2012 with Little Rock teammate Courtney Coe… Helped the Jaguars win four consecutive Gateway Athletic Conference Championships from 2010-2013… Individually, won 10 Conference Gold Medals in four seasons... Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Fort Zumwalt West HS… Made Honor Roll all four years of HS.

Personal:  Full name is Kayla Marie Grimm… Born Aug. 12, 1995 in O’Fallon, Mo.… Parents are Steve and Susan Grimm… Have two brothers, Stephen and Adam… Majoring in biology.