If you are looking for Lesley McEwan, you most likely won't find her sitting down.

To say the world champion curler, coach, fitness trainer, mother of six and grandmother of eight likes to keep active would be a massive understatement.

"I have a huge passion for sport and for motivating and supporting other people on their fitness journeys," says Lesley, who is receiving a 2015 Award of Excellence in the Athletics category.

Lesley started curling and coaching competitively approximately 35 years ago while living in Manitoba. When she moved to Spruce Grove in 1988, she brought that passion with her and got involved as a member of the Spruce Grove Curling Club as both a coach and a competitor.

As her children got older, she stepped away from competitive curling to focus on her kids and their burgeoning sporting activities, although she still made it a priority to curl recreationally a few times a week.

And when she did decide to get back on the ice competitively, Lesley didn't hold back. She started coaching a young professional team that went on to win multiple events on the World Curling Tour. Lesley was then recruited to play for a senior ladies team that won both the Provincial and Canadian Senior Women's Curling Championships in 2012 and the World Senior Women's Curling Championship in 2013, where she was named the tournament's top player at her position.

While working as a fitness instructor at a Spruce Grove gym, Lesley also decided to challenge herself by pursuing bodybuilding, which resulted in both Canadian and World level championships in the sport.

In addition to competing, Lesley shares her love of curling by coaching other teams. Over the years, she has been a mentor both on and off the ice to several junior curling teams and is currently coaching a women's team in pursuit of the 2018 Olympics as well as a Masters women's curling team.

Lesley is an assistant trainer and project coordinator for the Alberta Fitness Leadership Certification Association with the University of Alberta. She is the Executive Director for the Physical Culture Association of Alberta, as well as a lifestyle counsellor at a local gym. Lesley is also provincial manager with SHAPE (Safe Healthy Active People Everywhere) delivering Active Transportation programs throughout Alberta schools.

"My goal is to motivate and support participants through a variety of fitness programs," says Lesley. "My classes incorporate fun, effective movement patterns, training, and education within a non-competitive environment."

She also enjoys dancing, teaching fitness classes, cycling and spending time with her growing family, having recently added four-month old twin grandsons and a two-month-old granddaughter to the crew.

Just don't expect her to slow down anytime soon.