Kaitlyn Felton Joins WPF's Orlando Monarchs

ORLANDO – One of the more accomplished arms in the program’s history and an anchor on the Knights’ pitching staff throughout the last four seasons, former UCF right-handed pitcher Kaitlyn Felton is taking her talents to the professional ranks.

As announced by the organization Thursday, Felton has officially agreed to terms to join WPF’s (Women’s Professional Fastpitch) Orlando Monarchs beginning this summer.

She becomes the second UCF alum to sign with a professional team following the conclusion of the 2025 spring campaign, joining designated/utility player Stormy Kotzelnick, also with the Monarchs, as well as the fifth in the last two seasons, joining Sarah Willis (Athletes Unlimited), Sona Halajian (Texas/Orlando Monarchs) and Jada Cody (Texas Smoke).

Felton and Kotzelnick will join the Monarchs in their second season since joining WPF as an expansion team for the 2024 summer slate, a team that originally called Texas State’s Bobcat Softball Stadium home last summer before announcing their relocation to the UCF Softball Complex for the 2025 campaign.

Felton this spring represented the lone rostered senior to spend all four years of her collegiate career donning the Black and Gold, recording a career 3.28 ERA in 99 appearances, including 53 starts, spanning 331 innings pitched with 234 strikeouts, seven shutouts, 19 complete games, 35 winning decisions and seven saves.

Throughout the 2025 campaign, she set single-season career bests in appearances (34), ERA (2.46), shutouts (3), complete games (9), winning decisions (14) and saves (4).

The right-hander also completed her collegiate career ranking among UCF all-time program leaders in saves (7, T-4th), appearances (99, 6th), innings pitched (331, 9th) and strikeouts (234, 10th), and her four saves in 2025 were good for a share of second-most in a single season in program history.

She won her first two career Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Week awards this spring, becoming the first player of the season to garner multiple conference weekly honors, and threw seven innings in an appearance on nine different occasions, also a single-season career best.

Felton earned her first Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Week recognition for her efforts throughout the 2025 season’s first weekend, when she spun 10.2 scoreless frames in appearances against Illinois, NC State and then-No. 12 Georgia, highlighted by a seven-inning shutout against the Fighting Illini Feb. 9.

She tossed seven of the Knights eight frames in UCF’s 6-4 eight-inning win over Clemson in Clearwater Feb. 15, and later threw the first no-hitter of her collegiate career against Quinnipiac Feb. 20.

Felton’s second conference weekly honor came for her efforts in leading her team to the highest-ranked series win in program history, a road series victory over then-No. 4 Arizona March 7-9. She totaled five innings between the first two games of the series, clinching a win and a save with just one unearned run allowed on three total hits.

The Valrico, Florida, native also tossed a seven-inning complete game in UCF’s April 19 win over then-No. 21 Oklahoma State, leading her team to its sixth ranked win of the year and first win over the Cowgirls in the Cindy Ball-Malone era.

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