Heather Moyse

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As a dual national sport athlete in bobsleigh and rugby, Heather Moyse is a remarkable example of passion and dedication to sport and life.

After being recruited to the sport of bobsleigh in August 2005, in her first season together with pilot Helen Upperton, Heather won the Canadian Championships, finished 2nd overall in the World Cup Circuit with 1 gold, 2 silvers, 1 bronze, and push-start records on five international tracks. Her bobsleigh season culminated in a 4th place finish at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy where she and Helen set another push-start record.

Heather has also represented Canada in 15 international rugby games as a member of the National Senior Women's Rugby team (since 2004), and was the leading point-scorer in tries for the whole tournament and the only Canadian selected to the All-Star team at the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2006. Heather also made her debut with the National Women's Rugby Sevens team in March 2008 in Hong Kong.

Not only does Heather believe that sport is an amazing means to discover one's potential in the face of challenges, but that it is also an ideal medium for development at the individual, community, and national levels. In 2001, Heather was selected to serve as a Disability Sports Program Officer with Commonwealth Games Canada in Trinidad and Tobago. She developed and established a camp for children who are deaf or hearing-impaired from islands across the Caribbean called Camp ABLE (Active Bodies, Leadership, and Esteem). Heather remained in Trinidad and Tobago for almost three years doing other work with the Paralympic Association, Disabled People's International, and the Trinidad and Tobago Rugby Union. Since returning to Canada to do her Masters in Occupational Therapy, she has continued to serve as a Member-at-Large for Commonwealth Games Canada with an avid interest in international development through sport.

Having been born and raised in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Heather is a true Islander through and through, and takes any opportunity to go home for some Maritime air. Heather helps out with Island events and fundraisers as much as she can, to give back to the community that contributed so much to making her the person and athlete that she is today.

She won a gold medal in the Two-woman competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics with Kaillie Humphries. The silver medal was won by fellow Canadians Shelley-Ann Brown and Helen Upperton. It marked the first time at the 2010 Olympics that Canadians had won two medals in one event.