Sylvia Sweeney

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Sylvia Sweeney (born on October 3, 1956 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and television producer.

Sweeney grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University, where she was a star of the McGill Martlets basketball team. She also subsequently played for the Concordia Stingers and the Laurentian Lady Vees. Concordia's team made it to the national finals in 1977, and Laurentian's team won the championship in 1979. Sweeney was also a member of the national Olympic women's basketball team in 1976 and 1984, and was named the Most Valuable Player at the FIBA world championships in 1979.

In the late 1980s, Sweeney entered television, becoming a journalist and host for CTV's W-FIVE. She has also been an anchor for the CBC, and has produced award-winning documentary programming for WTSN, W Network, TVOntario, History Television and Vision TV.

In 2002, Sweeney was named the executive producer of the National Film Board's Ontario production centre.

Sweeney is the daughter of music teacher Daisy Sweeney and the niece of jazz musician Oscar Peterson. One of her most famous television productions was In the Key of Oscar, a 1992 documentary about her uncle.

Canadian Interuniversity Sport and TSN present an annual Sylvia Sweeney Award to a Canadian women's university basketball player who best exemplifies the values of athletics, academics and community involvement.

See also: Black Canadian.