Kenedi Bradley, school record holder in the 100 and 200 meters, commits to Butler University on a track scholarship and will make her senior basketball season at Chesterton her final one as she closes in on school scoring record

Tom Keegan
Onwardtrojans.com

All senior Kenedi Bradley must do to leave Chesterton High School as the leading girls basketball scorer in school history is to come close to duplicating her totals from her either her sophomore or junior seasons.
Not bad considering that basketball has become Bradley’s second-best sport.
She already owns school records in the 100 meters (11.71) and 200 meters (24.66), times that made her a Div. 1 recruit in track and since her stated goal was to become a D-1 athlete, her decision on which sport to continue competing at was made for her: track.
Bradley committed to Butler University to run sprint and will finish her decorated basketball career when Chesterton’s season ends. Before committing to Butler, Bradley had talked with track coaches from IU Bloomington, IU Indianapolis, South Dakota State and University of Idaho.
Why Butler?
“I saw the campus,” Bradley said. “I just fell in love with it. It was the perfect size. It had my major and it was just gorgeous.”
Bradley wants to major in speech pathology, a choice reached for a touching personal reason.
“We’re a foster family and my three little siblings that we’ve adopted and are fostering right now all had to go through speech therapy because they had problems eating, so I always saw them do that,” Bradley said. “I just loved it and thought it was cool.”
Bradley said that the scholarship she will receive covers all the tuition. She won’t attempt to walk on to the basketball team.
Bradley has been Chesterton’s leading scorer since stepping on campus as a freshman.
If as she expects her ankle is ready by the season-opener and she stays healthy all season, she likely will break Jackie Campbell’s career scoring record of 1,212 points. If Bradley duplicates the 14.2 scoring average she posted as both a sophomore and junior, she would become the career scoring leader three points into her 18th game of the season.
Her assault on the track record book hasn’t necessarily ended either. Bradley already topped her 200 record of 24.66 last June in the New Balance nationals at Franklin Field in Philadelphia with a 24.37, so there is reason to believe she will top her record there and she’ll strive to improve her 100 time as well. Since she wasn’t running for Chesterton in Philly, that didn’t count as a school record.
Bradley said Chesterton Coach Lindsay Moskalick has told her she also will run the 400 meters for the first time since middle school.
Bradley already has three top five finishes at state to her name. She placed fifth in the state in the 100 as a sophomore, and as a junior finished second in the 100 and fifth in the 200.
Bradley’s school record in the 100 is faster than any time posted by a Butler sprinter last spring and the 200 she ran in Philly is .001 faster than the best time in the event from a Butler athlete in 2025.
Former Chesterton distance runner Ali Sierazy, a friend of Bradley’s, is a sophomore at Butler and runs for the cross country and track teams. The former teammates got together during Bradley’s campus visit.
“She stole me from my host, so I hung out with her and her friends for an hour or two,” Bradley said. “She loves Butler. She really, really loves it. She loves the girls. She loves the coaches. I understand why. I really liked the girls when I was there, and I was with them for a day. And I really liked the coaches.”
Bradley suffered a serious ankle sprain playing AAU basketball over the summer and wore a boot for a month. She still isn’t allowed to jump, so her basketball practice has been limited to shooting free throws and doing dribbling drills. She recently was cleared to start running again.
“It’s a little stiff, but my physical therapist said it’s going to be a little stiff for the next three months,” she said. “My ligaments were stretched, so it’s going to take a while for them to get back.”