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Masse narrowly missed qualifying for the Canadian team at the trials for the home 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and World Championships - a bitter blow.īut Masse she was named for the 2015 Universiade being held in Gwangju. Universiade success has been a springboard for Kylie Masse to win back-to-back world titles and an Olympic bronze medal ©Getty Images

With huge parental support she worked and improved, and by the time Masse had arrived at the University of Toronto she was on the cusp of international success. Masse had begun swimming as a 10-year-old, coached locally at the Windsor Essex team by Andrei Semenov. "That's something I really treasured as a young athlete growing up, is looking up to older Olympians, so I want to be that person." "It's incredible, honestly, to be here with all these kids," said Masse as she signed autographs for a long line of fans. The Olympic medal-winning swimmer met with fans at the LaSalle outdoor pool following a parade along Front Road. The year before she had swum at the Rio 2016 Olympics, breaking the Canadian 100m backstroke record three times, latterly in the final, where her effort of 58.76 was enough to tie her for the bronze medal with China’s Fu Yuanhui. In August 2017, the Montreal borough of LaSalle held a special event to honour one of its famous daughters - Kylie Masse.Īged 21, Masse had just become the first-ever Canadian swimmer to earn a world title, and what’s more she had done so in a world record, clocking 58.10sec to take gold in the women's 100 metres backstroke in Budapest. 2015 Summer Universiade, Gwangju: Swimming, 100 metres backstroke, gold (59.97sec).