- CIAU All-Canadian and Canada West All-Star swimmer.
- CIAU Outstanding Swimmer and Pandas MVP.
- 16-time CIAU Medalist
- 9-time CIAU National Gold Medalist
- National team member (1987-93), winning the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games (100m breaststroke).
- Gold medalist in the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
- Held the Canadian record for the 50m breaststroke from 1990-2008.
Keltie Duggan was an outstanding swimmer for the University of Alberta Pandas during her stellar competitive career. A graduate of Strathcona High School in Edmonton, Keltie was a member of Canada’s national team from 1987 to 1993. She made her first international mark by winning the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The following year, she won a bronze medal as a member of Canada’s 4x100m medley relay team at the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. In 1989, she was the 100m breaststroke gold medallist at the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo.
Further international success followed, as Duggan won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand; she was also a member of Canada’s bronze medal team in the 4x100m medley relay at the same Games. Duggan was named Swimming Canada Athlete of the Year in 1989-1990. Her final international competition was in 1991 at the World Championships in Perth, Australia, where she placed second in the 50m breaststroke, 5th in the 100m breaststroke, and was a member of the 4x100m medley relay team that finished 6th. Duggan held the Canadian record for 50m breaststroke from 1990 to 2008.
While representing the Pandas from 1989 through 1994, Keltie Duggan’s impact on the Canadian university swimming scene was significant. In 1989, she was named the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union’s Outstanding Swimmer, and she won gold medals in the 100m breaststroke at both the Canada West and CIAU Championships. Duggan was voted the CIAU Swimmer of the Meet in 1990, when she was the gold medallist in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke, setting a CIAU record in the 100m event. At the same meet, she was a member of two gold medal relay teams: 4x200m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay, the latter of which set a CIAU record. Duggan was named the University of Alberta’s outstanding female athlete in 1989-90, when she was the recipient of the Bakewell Trophy.
Duggan’s outstanding university swimming career continued in 1992-93 when she was the team captain of the Pandas and she won gold medals in the 50m breaststroke at the Canada West and CIAU championships, recording record times in both events. She was the winner of the Canada West 100m and 200m breaststroke events in the same year. Duggan led the Pandas to a third place finish at the Nationals in Toronto to close out the season where she was named a CIAU All-Canadian and a Canada West All-Star. She was also named the recipient of the Nick Carter Trophy in 1992-93, awarded to the Pandas’ Swimming MVP. In her final competitive season with the Pandas - 1993-94 - while serving as team captain, Duggan again won the 50m breaststroke event at the Canada West and CIAU competitions, setting records for both races. Duggan retired as a nine-time CIAU champion.
Her academic performances matched Duggan’s considerable athletic achievements. She was named an Academic All-Canadian from 1990 through 1994, and she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Distinction in 1994. While an undergraduate student, Keltie received a Peter Lougheed Scholarship, a Petro-Canada Olympic Torch Scholarship, and a Universiade ’83 Scholarship. In 1994, Keltie began volunteering at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, and in 2000 she graduated in Medicine from the University of Calgary. Having completed a residency in family medicine, Keltie Duggan went on to practice in the areas of acute care (hospitalist work), neuro-rehabilitation and palliative hospice care in Calgary.
Keltie Duggan had an outstanding athletic and academic career, making many important contributions to Pandas’ swimming excellence at the University of Alberta while demonstrating the characteristics of an exemplary student-athlete.
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