At the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, Horn-Miller co-captained Canada's women's water polo team and led them to impressive draws against the all-powerful Russia and United States, before soundly thumping Kazakhstan 10-3.

Losses to the Netherlands and eventual gold medallist and host country Australia kept Canada out of medal possibility, however.

With Horn-Miller as one of its leaders, Canada showed it could compete with the world's top nations and proved this the following year when they won a World Championship bronze medal.

Prior to Sydney, Horn-Miller was a member of the women's water polo team that won Pan Am Games gold the last time Canada hosted these Games, in Winnipeg in 1999.

"I am honoured to have been chosen and to help mentor and steer our team of Canadian athletes to success during the Toronto 2015 Games," Horn-Miller said.

"Having been mentored by them myself, I know how important the role of the chef and assistant chef is, so this is a position I take very seriously."

Waneek Horn-Miller led Canada to world bronze at the 2001 World Water Polo Championships ©Getty Images


Grand'Maître has represented Canada on the world stage more than any other racquetball player, racking up 35 international caps.

She is the only Canadian player to have participated in all four Pan American Games that included racquetball, the highlight of which was her bronze medal in doubles at Santo Domingo 2003.

She also competed at Mar del Plata 1995, Winnipeg 1999 and Guadalajara 2011.

The three-time national singles champion and seven-time nation doubles champion has collected 10 medals in the World Championships, including seven bronzes in doubles and a team silver, with her first and last medals sitting 24 years apart.

The pair will work alongside three-time Olympic medallist and Chef de Mission for Toronto 2015, Curt Harnett.

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