Kelley Anderson Brummitt

Kelley excelled as a 3-sport athlete at BAHS.  As a freshman, Kelley was a full-time level 10 gymnast until she decided to change directions and explore other sports.  She joined the varsity soccer team her sophomore year and earned 2 varsity letters.  She spent her senior season as a midfielder on Beaver’s Class AA Playoff team during the 1999 season.

As a swimmer, she helped Beaver to a WPIAL section title swimming the 50 freestyle and the freestyle and medley relays.  She was part of the 200 medley relay team that set a school record at the 2000 WPIAL championship meet.  Her main event was diving.  During her sophomore year she placed 2nd in the MAC Championship, 4th in the WPIAL and 8th in the PIAA.  As a junior, she won the Midwestern Athletic Conference Championship, was 3rd in the WPIAL and 2nd in the State.  She finished her HS diving career, placing 2nd in the WPIAL and 3rd in the PIAA.

In the spring she was a sprinter and jumper for the track team.  In the 2000 WPIAL AA track championship, Kelley won medals in the triple jump (2nd), long jump (6th) and 400-meter relay (5th).  As a junior, pole vaulting was added to the list of girls events and Kelley placed 3rd in the WPIAL.  As a senior in 2000, she placed 2nd in the WPIAL and finished her career 3rd in the PIAA State Competition.

As a senior, Kelley was recognized as a WPIAL scholar athlete.  She was also awarded The Times’ 2000 Female Scholastic Athlete of the Year - and was the first female athlete from Beaver to receive this honor.  During her time at BAHS, she was President of the National Honor Society, Vice-President of Student Council and was one of the valedictorians of the Class of 2000.

Kelley remains the top female diver in the history of the Allegheny swimming and diving program.  She was North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) champion on the 1- and 3-meter diving boards 4 years in a row and was the first female diver to earn NCAC Diver of the Year 4 years in a row.  She made her 1st of 3 consecutive trips to the NCAA Division III National Championship her sophomore year (2002), where she finished 7th in the 1-meter and 10th in the 3-meter.  During her junior year, (2003) she enjoyed her most successful NCAA Championship - finishing 6th in the 3-meter and taking 3rd in the nation in the 1-meter diving board, just 7 points from the top spot.  Following the 2002-03 campaign, Kelley was named to the NCAC’s 20th Anniversary All-Decade Team, as the top 1-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 1- and the 3-meter titles for the 4th straight year.  She earned All-American honors at NCAAS in both boards, highlighted by a 4th place national finish in the 1-meter.  She totaled 7 All-American honors during her 4-year career.  She was named the 2003-04 Allegheny Female Athlete of the Year, and graduated, with honors, with a degree in Biochemistry and a minor in German.  In 2014, Allegheny selected her to the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Kelley graduated 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 Dept. of Orthopedics at the University of Pittsburgh, and is a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician with UPMC Sports Medicine.  She is the team physician for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and for Carnegie Mellon University and Point Park University Athletics.  She has served on the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon medical board for the last 12 years and also volunteered as medical director for many years for the Pittsburgh Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K Run/Walk.

She feels her greatest accomplishment is her family.  She and husband, Brian, live in Wexford with their sons, Brody & Brooks.