NIAHF Inductees: A Local Flair
Written by Jeremy Zafran on 6 February 2023
Harry Rice of Kahnawake as well as Lylee Horn, Melody Horn, Rachel Leborgne and Journey Jacobs are off to the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame. They were part of the The NIFA Ladies Team Indigenous Canada, which won gold in 2015 in Brazil and in Edmonton in 2017. After reaching the pinnacle, Rice is thrilled to share the experience:
“If you asked me 10 years ago or 15 years ago where do you think soccer would have taken you, I would have told you one of the local communities, so, me going out to travel the world for soccer, Brazil, Cuba, Hawaii and the Dominican Republic, I don’t know if I would have believed you if you told me I was going to do that let alone winning world championships with NIFA. It’s a great honour, I’m lucky to be part of that, it was great to share that experience with some of the girls form Kahnàwake.”
The group joins previous inductees such as Jim Thorpe, Billy Mills, George Armstrong and Kahnawake’s Alwyn Morris.
