Rhythmic gymnastics

She's a former rhythmic gymnast who became both a Canadian champion and a Commonwealth Games champion.

She also competed at the World Championships and the Olympics before transitioning to the coaching side of the sport, where she founded the Okanagan Rhythmic Gymnastics Club.

She would go on to become the president of Gymnastics BC, a master coach developer for Canada's National Coaching Certification program, and was elected National Team Coaches Chair for 16 consecutive years.

Central to all of this is her role as a mother and what she's experienced guiding her own children through sport, which led her to author a book entitled MVP in the Stands: Becoming the Parent Your Child Needs in Sport.

And when I saw the 1984 Olympics and watched Mary Lou Retton vault to that gold medal, I was set that I wanted to go to the Olympics, and I wasn't totally sure that that would be the way.

I was a really tall and thin child, so I was probably not the ideal body type for the regular artistic gymnastics, um, but went down that route initially anyways.

And then when I found rhythmic gymnastics, I knew I had found my match and decided that that combination of sport and art was, was the way in which I wanted to pursue that goal.

Now, leading up to that, and perhaps even after you decided to go down the rhythmic gymnastics path, were you playing a lot of other sports at that time, or when you made that decision, did you have to specialize?