A talented student-athlete in high school, Noelle Montcalm realized her full potential as a member of the University of Windsor track team.

Over the course of a five-year university career, Montcalm collected individual victories, medals and championships like she was picking flowers.

A gifted hurdler at multiple distances, she earned 16 individual medals at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (national) level and 17 at the Ontario University Athletics (provincial) level.

Montcalm helped carry the UWindsor Lancers to back-to-back CIS national championships in 2010-11.

She was named OUA rookie of the year (’07), OUA athlete-of-the meet twice (’08, ’11) and OUA most valuable player twice (’09, ’10).

As her collegiate career approached the finish line, a bigger stage came into focus and Montcalm trained her eye on international and Olympic competition.

She qualified for the World Student Games and the World Championships in 2013 and a year later she competed for Team Canada at the Commonwealth Games.

Now specializing in the 400-metre hurdles, Montcalm found an extra gear and met a tough Olympic qualifying standard in her last-chance opportunity at the 2016 Canadian nationals in Edmonton. That saw her fitted for Canada’s Olympic uniform and headed to Rio where she flirted with the podium as a member of Canada’s fourth-place 4x400-metre relay team. She reached the semi-finals in a deep 400-metre hurdles field and finished 18^th overall.

Montcalm hung up her cleats in 2022 and now takes her place in the athlete’s category as a member of the 2025 class for the Windsor/Essex County Sports Hall of Fame.