Kelly Rohrbach Wins 2015 SI Swimsuit Rookie of the Year Award

Andy Gray | Feb 27, 2015

The future of SI Swimsuit is here and her name is Kelly Rohrbach. The Georgetown grad beat our six other first-year models to win SI's 2015 Rookie of the Year Award. Even more impressive, this was Kelly's first professional shoot as a model. Her fans liked what they saw as a late surge in voting helped her win the award with 39 percent of the vote, holding offErin Heatherton(32 percent) and Rose Bertram (13 percent) to capture the award. You can view the full voting results here.

Kelly is the sixth rookie to receive the award. Past winners include Chrissy Teigen(2010), Kate Upton (2011), Nina Agdal(2012), Kate Bock (2013) and Sara Sampaio (2014). It's been a big week for Rohrbach, who also appears in a new ad campaign for Old Navy . Below are some of our favorite moments from the newly-crowned Rookie of the Year.

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Kelly Rohrbach was photographed by Yu Tsai in Big Sur, California.

Kelly Rohrbach was photographed by Yu Tsai in Big Sur, California. Swimsuit by MIKOH

Kelly Rohrbach was photographed by Yu Tsai in Big Sur, California.

Published Feb 27, 2015

ANDY GRAY

A senior editor atSI.com, Andy Gray oversees Hot Clicks, Extra Mustard and the Swimsuit site. A Boston sports loyalist and Columbia graduate, he joined SI in 2005.

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