Carol was also a star performer with Glencoe Ski Club and in school athletics, where she was Oban High School sports champion in 1986. She was also part of the team to win the Argyll and Bute schools’ county sports championships around the same time.
She moved to Edinburgh to attend university where she met Donald, despite them both having attended Oban High School together two years apart.
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Keanna joined her first swimming club, Grove ASC, in 2009 at the age of seven.
She showed promise from the start, and at her first swimming gala, she competed as an eight-year-old in the nine-and-under age group.
She joined Heart of Midlothian Amateur Swimming Club in 2010 and with phenomenal progression in all strokes, won national age-group medals in numerous events throughout her teenage years, gaining selection onto the National Junior Squad at12.
Her strength in the butterfly events was most notable and from 11 to 18 years of age she broke the Scottish national age-group records in 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly every year.
She represented Scotland and Great Britain at junior international competitions, competing all over the world.
Aged 16, she gained her first senior selection, representing Scotland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.
Keanna moved to the University of Stirling’s performance squad at the age of 17, balancing life in the pool with studying towards a degree in psychology.
At the Tokyo Olympic trials in 2021, she was disappointed to miss out on selection by only half a second, but this didn’t deter her and she reset her focus, competing at the European Championships in Budapest in 2021 and qualifying for her second Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham in 2022.
After competing at the European Championships in Rome in August 2022, she became British champion at 100m butterfly in 2023, earning her a place on the GB team at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Later that summer, she competed at the inaugural European under-23 Swimming Championships where she won gold medals in the 100m and 200m butterfly.
In December 2023, she brought home a bronze medal from the European Short Course Championships in Otopeni as part of the GB medley relay team.
At the Aquatics GB Olympic trials in London in April 2024, she beat current world champion Laura Stephens to claim victory in the 200m butterfly, becoming the first swimmer nominated onto the GB Olympic team for Paris 2024.
She also took the victory in the 100m butterfly later in the week to become double British Champion. She is the Scottish record holder across all the butterfly events.
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