Heather Moyse

Heather Moyse

Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	July 23, 1978 (1978-07-23) Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Residence	Toronto
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Weight	72.5 kg (160 lb; 11.42 st)
Website	Official website
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Bobsleigh
Event(s)	2-woman
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
Medal record Women´s Bobsleigh Competitor for Canada Olympic Games Gold 2010 Vancouver Two-woman World Championships Bronze 2011 Königssee Two-woman Bronze 2011 Königssee Mixed team World Cup Championships Silver 2009–10 Two-woman

Heather Moyse (born July 23, 1978) is a Canadian athlete, representing Canada in international competition as a bobsledder and rugby union player, and competing at the Canadian intercollegiate level in rugby, soccer and track and field.

Awards

Heather was a two-time Female Athlete of the Year at Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside, Prince Edward Island where she competed in soccer, basketball, rugby and track and field. She was inducted into the University of Waterloo Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. Moyse received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award as P.E.I.’s outstanding athlete in 2006 and 2010, was named Prince Edward Island's Senior Female Athlete of the Year for both 2005, 2006 and 2010 and has won ten Sport P.E.I. awards in total since 1998 . In 2010, Moyse and bobsled pilot Kaillie Humphries were nominated as Sportswoman of the Year by the American Women's Sports Foundation in the Team category. Heather also received the 2010 University of Waterloo Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Young Alumni Award. On April 14, 2011 she was named 2010 Ontario Female Athlete of the Year, making her one of the only, if not the only, athletes to win the same award in two provinces in the same year. In 2012, she was named by Sportsnet Magazine as one of the 30 Most Beautiful Athletes on the Planet.

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-hundredths of a second behind the host Italian team. The pair set the push start record for the Olympic track with a 5.16-second start time in their first heat.

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. In four races the duo earned a silver, bronze and two 5th-place finishes. At the 2008 World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Moyse raced with Canada 3 pilot Lisa Szabon and the pair finished in 11th place.

During the 2008–2009 World Cup season, Moyse returned from a serious shoulder injury (incurred while playing rugby for Canada). In her only race with Canada 1 pilot Upperton the duo won gold in Igls, Austria. Moyse and Canada 2 pilot Kaillie Humphries recorded a 5th in St. Moritz, silver in Whistler and 5th at the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid, New York. In four other races, Moyse did not race with any of Canada's three sleds.

During the 2009–2010 World Cup season, Moyse & Humphries finished second overall behind only Sandra Kiriasis and won four medals including gold in Altenberg, Germany. They set or tied the track start record in every race in which they competed together.

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. For winning the Gold Medal, Moyse was on the cover of Hello! Canada in March 2010. Moyse joins former University of Toronto student-athlete Jayna Hefford as the only University of Toronto graduates to claim a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.

Moyse missed the first half of the 2010–11 World Cup bobsleigh season due to an ankle injury suffered in the final game of the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Start records

With either Kaillie Humphries or Helen Upperton, Moyse holds or has tied nine track start records, including every track on the 2009–2010 World Cup circuit. Start records held by Heather Moyse:.

• Calgary – 5.60 in 2005 with Helen Upperton (no World Cup race since 2007–2008)
• Cesana – 5.16 at 2006 Olympics with Helen Upperton (tied by Kaillie Humphries and Shelley-Ann Brown in 2009)
• Park City – 5.20 in 2009 with Kaillie Humphries
• Lake Placid – 5.46 in 2009 with Kaillie Humphries (tied with Erin Pac and Michelle Rzepka and Jamia Jackson and Elana Meyers of the USA)
• Winterberg – 5.54 in 2009 with Kaillie Humphries
• Altenberg – 5.74 in 2009 with Kaillie Humphries
• Königssee – 5.25 in 2010 with Kaillie Humphries
• Igls – 5.50 in 2010 with Kaillie Humphries
• Whistler – 5.11 twice at 2010 Olympics with Kaillie Humphries

Career highlights

Olympics

2006 – Cesana, 4th with Helen Upperton

2010 – Vancouver, 1st with Kaillie Humphries

World Championships

2008 – Altenberg, 11th with Lisa Szabon

2009 – Lake Placid, 5th with Kaillie Humphries

2011 – Königssee, 3rd with Kaillie Humphries

2011 – Königssee, 3rd with Kaillie Humphries (team event)

World Cup

2005 – Calgary, 3rd with Helen Upperton

2005 – Igls, 2nd with Helen Upperton

2006 – Königssee, 2nd with Helen Upperton

2006 – St. Moritz, 1st with Helen Upperton

2008 – Cortina d'Ampezzo, 2nd with Helen Upperton

2008 – St. Moritz, 3rd with Helen Upperton

2008 – Igls, 1st with Helen Upperton

2009 – Whistler, 2nd with Kaillie Humphries

2009 – Lake Placid, 3rd with Kaillie Humphries

2009 – Altenberg, 1st with Kaillie Humphries

2010 – Königssee, 2nd with Kaillie Humphries

2010 – Igls, 3rd with Kaillie Humphries

Rugby union

Moyse is a current member of the Canada national team and represented Canada at both the 2006 and 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup. She has also been a member of the Canadian national women's sevens team. At the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup in England, where Canada finished sixth, Moyse and tournament most valuable player Carla Hohepa of New Zealand tied as the leading try-scorers with seven tries each. At the 2008 Hong Kong Sevens tournament, Moyse was the leading scorer in the women's tournament 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 in terms of both points and tries with 35 points and 7 tries in five matches. Moyse also starred in the CIS. At the University of Waterloo, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Honours Kinesiology, Moyse was selected as team Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player, 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, Moyse 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.

Track

Moyse 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. At the University of Waterloo, she competed for four years at the CIAU Championships and amassed ten OUA medals and 2 CIAU bronze medals in her career. During the 2000 OUA championship, Moyse 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 2010. Moyse 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.

Soccer

In 1996–97, Moyse played one year of varsity soccer for the University of Waterloo while also competing in track & field.

External links

• Heather Moyse, taking nothing for granted on IRB.com
• Olympic Champion Moyse, back in rugby fold