Haley Daniels is an athlete, pioneer, and advocate. She represented Canada in the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics in the sport of Canoe Slalom where these games went down in history. She is a multi-time Canadian Champion where she won a bronze medal at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, a gold medal at the 2018 Pan American Championships, and competed in World Cups, and World Championships. Her Sport has gone through a gender equality battle where historically men have represented in a canoe at the Olympic Games, and canoe women have not. On a mission for gender equality in her sport, she and a group of motivated female canoeists globally led the charge to push for the inclusion of women’s canoeing at the Olympics. As a result of their tremendous determination women’s canoeing was added to the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympic Games program. Along with pathing a pathway forward Haley’s father Kimberly Daniels who is a proud Transgender woman also left a legacy where she was the first openly Transgender judge to ever officiate at the Olympic Games. Both Haley and Kimberly are extremely proud to be a part of this massive leap of diversity and inclusion related to the Olympics.
Now retired Haley is a professional speaker sharing her adversity as an opportunity for organizations to use as inspiration. She is an ambassador with KidSport Calgary, Protect Our Winters, Special Olympics, and WaterAid Canada. In her role with WaterAid traveled to Ghana to launch the WASH 4 Public Health program in conjunction with Right To Play.
