Melissa Collins

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Melissa Collins
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BornSeptember 25, 1976 (1976-09-25) (age 46)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Medal record
Women's water polo
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2001 Fukuoka Team
Pan American Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Santo Domingo Team

Melissa Collins (born September 25, 1976) is a Canadian water polo player. She was part of the fifth place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Born in Montreal, Quebec, she is a student at McGill University as a dietetics and human nutrition graduate student and received her BSc(PT)'98. [1]

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References

  1. "Olympians Head to Greece". McGill News. Retrieved 30 November 2020.