KAUKAUNA — Alexa Kinas, who will begin her senior season this fall at Kaukauna High School, has verbally committed to playing Division 1 basketball at Loyola University Chicago.
Kinas averaged 19.2 points per game her junior season for Kaukauna.
She was first team all-conference selection for basketball and unanimous selection for the all-conference defensive team.
In addition, she was first team all-state this past season. This past season, she was also nominated for several area athlete of the year awards including overall girl athlete, basketball, and track.
Kinas says Loyola was one of her favorites early on in the recruiting process after visiting and receiving an offer to play there last fall.
Loyola’s head coach is Allison Guth, who will start her second season at Loyola this fall, after having 7 successful years at Yale.
Loyola is looking to build a power program, which last year moved to the Atlantic 10 conference, and they say they are very excited to have Kinas on board to be a part of achieving this goal.
Kinas has been a four sport athlete for all three years so far at Kaukauna, already holding 12 varsity letters as she enters her senior year this fall.
She has participated in basketball, golf, track and cross country.
As a junior Kinas had earned 20 all-conference awards, five team conference championships, nine individual track conference champ titles, eight regional individual and team championships, 12 sectional individual and team championships, seven all-state awards, 14 time state qualifier (track, cross country and golf).
She helped lead the cross country team to their first XC state title in Kaukauna school history in 2020, tied the Kaukauna golf record for best 9 holes, broke the 400-meter school record in track this past season, lead the basketball team to a regional title the past two years, and holds basketball school records for most points a single game and season, most free throws made in a game, season and career, most assists and steals in a season, among others.
Academically, she has five individual and three team all-state academic awards and is a high honor student.
