Collinda Joseph of Stittsville elected to Canadian Paralympic Athletes' Council
The wheelchair curling gold medallist from the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games joins the council as a representative for athletes.
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Collinda Joseph of Stittsville has been elected to the Canadian Paralympic Athletes' Council, the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced on June 29. Voting was conducted over four weeks by athletes who competed in any of the last four Paralympic Games (2024, 2022, 2020, and 2018).
Joseph, a wheelchair curler, was part of Canada's squad that made history at the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games by becoming the only team to go undefeated in round-robin play and capturing gold with a victory over China. She has been a member of Canada's wheelchair curling team at four of the last six world championships, including as lead at the 2025 worlds, and was part of the team that took bronze at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.
She first got involved in wheelchair curling through a "Give it a Go" event at the RA Centre in Ottawa and joined a local team in 2006. She has been invited to national team training camps since 2012 and was first selected to Team Canada in 2019. Her early career highlights include a provincial championship win in 2009 and an Ontario title as skip in 2016.
Joseph works as the Manager of Standards Development and Research with Accessibility Standards Canada and serves as a volunteer board member with Abilities Centre Ottawa. In 1983, she sustained a spinal cord injury when a train she was on derailed while travelling from Nice to Paris as part of a French language course trip.
The elected athletes join current council members Heidi Peters (sitting volleyball) and Christina Picton (Para nordic skiing). The council will soon elect a new chair and vice-chair, who will sit on the CPC Board of Directors as athlete representatives.
