Heather Moyse

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. [http://www.athletics.uwaterloo.ca/Alumni/Gold%20and%20Black%20Newsletter/april2006.pdf] Moyse received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award as P.E.I.’s outstanding athlete for 2006, was named Prince Edward Island's Senior Female Athlete of the Year for both 2005 and 2006 and has won seven Sport P.E.I. awards in total since 1998 . [ [http://sportpei.pe.ca/news/awards_winner.htm sportpeiNEWS_web_wide2 ] ]

Rugby

Moyse is an accomplished Rugby player, and is a current member of both the Canadian National Senior Women's XV as a full back and the Canadian National Senior Women's 7's team. At the 2008 Hong Kong Sevens tournament, Moyse was the tournament's leading scorer with 11 tries in just 4 matches, including three in Canada's semifinal win over Kazakhstan and Canada's only try in their 21-7 final loss to the United States. At the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup in Edmonton, Alberta, where Canada finished fourth, Moyse was Canada's only tournament all-star and the overall leading scorer in the tournament with 35 points and 7 tries in five matches. [ [http://www.rwcwomens.com/EN/Statistics/ Women'S Rwc ] ] . 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 completed 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. [ [http://www.universitysport.ca/e/championships/w_rugby/2005/awards.cfm Past Award Winners: 2004 CIS Women's Rugby Championship ] ]

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 in their first heat. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/athletes/athletesnamebio.shtml?heather_moyse.html CBC.CA - Torino 2006 ] ]

After a one year absence due to educational commitments, Moyse returned to the World Cup circuit in 2007-2008 as one of two brakeman for Canada 1 pilot Helen Upperton. At the 2008 World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Moyse raced with Canada 3 pilot Lisa Szabon and the pair finished in 11th place.

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. [ [http://www.edu.pe.ca/peisaa/history/records.htm PEISAA Track and Field Records ] ] 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 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. [ [http://www.warriortrackandfield.uwaterloo.ca/tf/records.htm VARSITY RECORDS | University of Waterloo Track & Field ] ] 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. [ [http://www.warriorcrosscountry.uwaterloo.ca/tf/history.htm HISTORY | University of Waterloo Track & Field ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.heathermoyse.com Heather Moyse Official Website - www.heathermoyse.com]