Five Questions With Melissa Smyth

Melissa Smyth is a 21-year-old volleyball player from Chatham, Ontario.

The John McGregor Secondary School graduate is currently in her second year at the University of Windsor, where she studies Drama in Education.

Smyth is a member of the Windsor Lancers varsity women’s volleyball team, and is one of her team’s leaders statistically this season.

Below are Melissa Smyth’s answers to CKSN’s Five Questions:

1. What is your career sports highlight/top memory?

My top sports highlight was winning a bronze medal at OFSAA in 2011 for my high school.

2. Who is your favourite professional sports team and athlete?

Favourite professional team is the Baltimore Ravens and Micheal Oher.

3. If you could achieve one thing/goal in sports, what would it be?

I would like to make it to a national championship before I am finished school. We are close this year with making it to playoffs so far.

4. Who has been your biggest sports influence and why?

My greatest influence has been my dad. He has always been my coach until university, he has taught me everything I know and has done everything he can (same with my mom) to make sure I have the best, and they both have pushed and supported me to where I am now.

5. What do you love most about playing sports?

I love the different world that I enter, you meet so many new people, create new relationships around something you both love and I love traveling. Just being able to play a sport I grew up with and play it for my family and my school means a lot because not a lot of people are blessed with this opportunity.

Five Questions is a weekly feature on the Chatham-Kent Sports Network. We’ll ask athletes from across Chatham-Kent Five Questions, and post their answers every week. If you know an athlete or coach we should question, or you’re an athlete or coach who would like to participate in “Five Questions,” please email us at ian@cksn.ca.