Ella Sears

Position:
Freestyle, Butterfly
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Angola
Hometown:
Angola, Ind.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB:
- Four-year letterwinner at Angola High School for head coach Sarah Weilein.
- Competed primarily in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke.
- Named team captain her junior and senior years.
- Earned all-area as a sophomore, junior and senior.
- Team MVP all four years with the Hornets.
- Captured silver in the 50 freestyle with a personal-best time of 23.55 at the IHSAA Girls Sectional Championship her senior year.
- Won gold in the 100 backstroke (56.09) at the IHSAA Girls Sectional Championship her senior year.
- One-year letterwinner in soccer at Angola High School.
- Swam on the Fort Wayne Swim Team for two years under head coach Ben Sutton.

PERSONAL:
- Daughter of Jennifer and Chris Sears.
- Father, Chris, participated in track and field for Indiana Wesleyan University.
- Favorite musicians are Rhianna and Pitbull.
- Favorite athletes are Kate Douglass, Brock Purdy and Nick Bosa.
- Favorite actor is Johnny Depp.
- Majoring in exercise science.