Profiles
- 2001-2002
- 1 season
- Documentary
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 2
When Gold Is Not Enough...
This episode of the 13-part series "Profiles" focused on exceptional wheelchair basketball player Chantal Benoit.
Episode 3
Blade Runner
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on a young girl of outstanding talent, Justine Blainey, and her successful tryout for an all-male hockey team. Her ejection from the team led to a court battle that waged on for almost four years, but in the end Blainey got her wish.
Episode 4
Strictly Free
This episode of "Profiles" follows the career of Ellen Burka, both a renowned figure skater and a coach.
Episode 5
The Whistle at the Heart
This episode of "Profiles" looks at Sonia Denoncourt's struggle to become the first woman to referee men's soccer, not only in Canada but in the world.
Episode 6
Playing for Keeps
This episode of "Profiles" looks at Canada's #1 table tennis player, Lijuan Geng.
Episode 7
Once Bitten Twice Shine
This episode of the series "Profiles" focuses on Waneek Horn-Miller, the first Mohawk woman from Quebec to compete in a summer Olympic Games.
Episode 8
A Stroke of Keith
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on Vicki Keith, "an ordinary person who has accomplished extraordinary things". Swimming across all five Great Lakes in one summer, she has set 17 world records on three continents. She went on to coach the Flames, the Variety Village swim team.
Episode 9
The Price of Power
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on Carol Ann Letheren. She was head of the Canadian Olympic Association until her death in 2001, and at that time was acknowledged as the most powerful woman in Canadian sport.
Episode 10
Rock the Boat
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on Marnie McBean, the outspoken Canadian who was the first rower to obtain a world championship medal in every boat class.
Episode 11
Writes of Passage
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on Laura Robinson, a member of Canada's national cycling team and women's rights activist.
Episode 12
Slipping Through the Hoop
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on former champion basketball player Liz Silcott and her struggles with mental illness.
Episode 14
Kelly Williams: Girls Kick Butt
This episode of "Profiles" focuses on racing car driver Kelly Williams, "addicted to speed".