Project Achievement winners receive a bronze medal, Service Achievement winners receive a silver medal, and Leadership Achievement winners receive a gold medal. The university has decided to bestow an honourary medical degree posthumously.ĭonations to the Amanda Kelsall Fund can be made via or by calling 61 ext.The award level is determined by how many experiences the member completes in each of four categories participation, community service, leadership and project learning. In fact, when Azzi and her class graduate in 2016, Amanda will graduate with them. It’s enough to fund a scholarship for future med students, in perpetuity. All funds raised will go to the trauma unit at the Civic campus.Ī separate Amanda Kelsall Fund at the university has already raised $56,000 - faster than any other in the school’s history. This weekend they’re among 111 uOttawa med student and faculty members who will make up the Run for Amanda team. She and classmates Laura Fitzpatrick and Dana Mayer headed up a plan to take advantage of fundraising Race Weekend passes provided to the Ottawa Hospital Foundation. “In a world of go-getters, she was a go-giver,” says Azzi. She would encourage others and had already been to Ghana to help sick children. She was a good student, always prepared and confident. and had already run 20k,” says friend Elise Azzi.Īmanda was the type who always had questions and was never afraid to ask. classes, Amanda would be there, looking fresh from the shower and bright and ready to go. While some of the students would struggle to get to 8:30 a.m. The girl who always inspired them, is continuing to do so. Amanda’s med school classmates and friends are learning this lesson. They say one of the toughest things doctors have to learn is breaking bad news to loved ones.

Taylor was seriously hurt as well, but still managed to attend and even speak at Amanda’s celebration of life, from a hospital bed. 17 in Petawawa as she and her boyfriend Jonathan Taylor headed back to Ottawa following the holidays.

The 22-year-old died in a weather-related crash on Hwy.

This weekend, Amanda’s race bib will cross the half-marathon finish line - but it will be worn by her father. Highly organized, focused and driven, she had her whole year planned out, and beyond - return to Ottawa to finish her second year of med school at University of Ottawa, she was already registered for the Ottawa Race Weekend half-marathon, all the while growing her hair out, dreaming of the day she would stand in a white dress and exchange vows with the man she loved. “I told her I loved her and prayed that God would bless her and keep her,” says Kelsall, a veteran Barrie-area OPP officer who served a year in Afghanistan.įrom the cottage, Amanda went to spend New Year’s with her boyfriend’s family. After riding across the frozen lake at the family cottage near Mattawa on a snowmobile, her arms clutched tight around her father John’s waist, the pair stopped and hugged. Coming from a religious family, she poured her heart into the holiday.

Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪmanda Kelsall died knowing she was loved and certain those around her felt loved.Ĭhristmas of 2013 was the happiest she could recall - she wrote letters to her family and made them personal gifts.

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