Carmel High School, 2010 – 13
Lacey Locke Butler swam for Carmel High School from 2009-2013. Lacey was a three-time state champion for the Greyhounds, winning the 100-yard backstroke twice (2010 and 2011) and winning the 200-yard individual medley in 2011. Lacey was also a vital member of eight champion Carmel relays, leading off the 200-yard medley relay each year and setting new national records her sophomore and senior years. In her senior year, she was also a member of the state record-setting 400-yard freestyle relay. Carmel won the team championship each of her four years and Lacey was the winner of the 2013 IHSAA Mental Attitude Award her senior year. Lacey continued her swimming career at Northwestern University where she earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. She was the Wildcats captain in both her junior and senior years. Lacey competed in backstroke events at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Trials. Lacey went on to earn her law degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Law where she was the student body president and received the UIC John Marshall Law School Spirit of Excellence Award. She now practices law as a civil litigator and trial attorney in Chicago with Smith Blake Hill LLC. She resides in Chicago with her husband, JB Butler, a former Northwestern football student-athlete.