Hall of Fame
Kelley Anderson remains the top female diver in the history of the Allegheny swimming and diving program. She excelled as a three-sport athlete at Beaver Area High School in Beaver, Pennsylvania, earning three letters in soccer while turning in All-State performances in track and field (pole vault), swimming (200-yard Medley Relay), and diving before graduating as the school’s Valedictorian.
Choosing to focus on her diving career at Allegheny, Anderson quickly made her mark. As a freshman in 2000-01, she was named both the North Coast Athletic Conference Newcomer and Diver of the Year after finishing first at the conference championship in both the one and three-meter dives. A year later, she replicated that feat, and made her first of three consecutive trips to the NCAA Division III National Championship, where she earned All-America in both dives, finishing seventh in the one-meter and 10th in the three-meter.
She swept the NCAC championships once again as a junior in 2003, and enjoyed her most successful trip to the NCAA championships. After finishing sixth in the three-meter, scoring 418.60, she took third in the nation in the one-meter with a score of 382.05, just seven points from the top spot. Following the 2002-03 campaign, Anderson was one of only three active athletes named to the NCAC’s 20th anniversary All-Decade Team as the top one-meter performer in the NCAC between the years 1993-2003.
In 2003-04, she made it a perfect 8-for-8 in her career at the NCAC championships, sweeping both the one and three-meter titles for the fourth straight year. Again, she earned All-America honors at NCAA’s in both boards, highlighted by a fourth-place national finish in the one-meter. She was named the 2003--04 Allegheny Female Athlete of the Year, and graduated with honors with a degree in biochemistry, and minor in Geman.
She went on to graduate from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, winning the school’s 2008 Primary Care Award for dedication to Primary Care. Dr. Anderson currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Pittsburgh, and is a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician with UPMC Sports Medicine.
