Carleton Alumna Waneek Horn-Miller Inducted into Canada Sports Hall of Fame
By
Ellen Tsaprailis
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John Lehmann
Carleton University alumna and former Ravens water polo star, Waneek Horn-Miller, has been inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame.
With a gold medal performance at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg as a member of the women’s national water polo team, Horn-Miller went on to serve as co-captain of the first Canadian women’s Olympic water polo team that finished fifth at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
The Class of 2019 entering the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame includes our very own, Waneek Horn-Miller BA/00. She is the first water polo player to be inducted to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. We are #CUproud of your achievement, Waneek! https://t.co/rFrHVDMLRi pic.twitter.com/bPqZnHdEFX
— Carleton U Alumni (@CarletonAlumni) May 24, 2019
She then captained the Canadian team to a world championship bronze medal in Japan in 2001.
Horn-Miller is the first water polo player to receive the honour.
Inducted into the Ravens Hall of Fame in 2014, Horn-Miller was Carleton’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1994-1995, 1995-1996 and 1996-1997. In the same three-year period she was the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) MVP and first team All Star winner.
From 1990-1997, Horn-Miller won 20 gold medals at the North American Indigenous Games, 19 for water polo and one for rifle shooting.
From Kahnawake, Que., Horn-Miller graduated with a BA from Carleton in 2000. She is the first Mohawk woman to compete in an Olympic Games and is a vocal advocate for Indigenous sport in Canada and internationally.
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