Indigenous woman names to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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Wanneek Horn-Miller is among the athletes to be inducted to the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.(Canada's Sports Hall of Fame)
For Waneek Horn-Miller is one of the athletes recently inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. She was the first Mohawk woman to compete in an Olympic Games, and the first water polo player to be inducted to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
The Kahnawake, Quebec native who now resides in Ottawa says the induction is a huge honor, but she also feels it is a reminder of the work needed to improve opportunities for Indigenous youth in sport. Only 11 of the 665 members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame are indigenous.
"I know there are so many Indigenous athletes out there that deserve recognition but also some who didn't get the same opportunities as I did," said Horn-Miller. "I just feel like they're all there with me and I'd like to accept this on behalf of all them."
Horn-Miller won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games and co-captained the first Canadian women's water polo team in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
