Heather Moyse
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Heather Moyse (born July 23, 1978 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island) is an elite Canadian athlete, representing Canada in international competition as a rugby player and a bobsledder, and competing at the Canadian intercollegiate level in rugby, soccer and track and field. She was inducted into the University of Waterloo Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 [1] and named Prince Edward Island's Senior Female Athlete of the Year for 2005. [2]
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[edit] Rugby
Moyse is an accomplished Rugby player, and is currently selected to the Canadian National Senior Women's XV as a full back. At the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup, where Canada finished fourth, Moyse was Canada's only tournament all-star and the overall leading scorer with 35 points and 7 tries in five matches. [3]. Heather has also starred in the CIS. At the University of Waterloo, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Honours Kinesiology, Heather was selected as team Rookie of the Year, a two time All-Canadian and was an integral part of a team that won the OUA Silver medal and the first ever CIAU Bronze medal for Waterloo. At the University of Toronto, where she is completing a Master's Degree in occupational therapy, Heather led the Varsity Blues rugby team to the 2004 CIS national final where she was a tournament all-star and was again named a first-team All-Canadian during her fifth and final year of eligibility. [4]
[edit] Bobsleigh
In 2005-2006, her rookie bobsleigh season, Moyse and her partner Helen Upperton won the Canadian Championships and earned four medals on the World Cup circuit including a gold at an event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Heather also set push start records on five international tracks. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Moyse and Upperton finished in fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh event, missing bronze by five one-hundreths of a second. The pair set the push start record for the Olympic track with a 5.16-second start time. [5]
[edit] Track
Heather represented Prince Edward Island as a sprinter at the 1997 Canada Games in Brandon, Manitoba and still holds the PEI Senior Ladies records in 200m and triple jump. [6] At the University of Waterloo, she competed for four years at the CIAU Championships and amassed 10 OUA medals and 2 CIAU bronze medals in her career. During the 2000 OUA championship, Heather won a 300M gold and 60M silver to lead the Waterloo to a third-place medal and was named the OUA Track MVP. She also set five university track records, four of which stand as of 2006. [7] Heather was named Waterloo's Track & Field and Overall Female Rookie of the Year in 1996-97 and Women's Track & Field Team MVP in 1997-98. [8]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.athletics.uwaterloo.ca/Alumni/Gold%20and%20Black%20Newsletter/april2006.pdf
- ^ http://sportpei.pe.ca/news/awards_winner.htm
- ^ http://www.rwcwomens.com/EN/Statistics/
- ^ http://www.universitysport.ca/e/championships/w_rugby/2005/awards.cfm
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/athletes/athletesnamebio.shtml?heather_moyse.html
- ^ http://www.edu.pe.ca/peisaa/history/records.htm
- ^ http://www.warriortrackandfield.uwaterloo.ca/tf/records.htm
- ^ http://www.warriorcrosscountry.uwaterloo.ca/tf/history.htm
