Michelle’s career in High School Sports began at Harry Ainlay High School. She played on the Sr. Women’s Basketball team, having two undefeated seasons in her three years from 2007-2010. In 2009 Michelle was invited to the National Elite Development Academy, being only one of 12 girls invited across Canada, and in 2010 received the Miss Basketball Alberta Award. Michelle also played on both City and Provincial Champion Teams for Volleyball all three years of high school. During the summers she joined Team Alberta finishing 2nd at Nationals U15 in 2007, 2nd at Nationals U17 in 2008, and 1st at the Canada summer Games U17 in 2009. Michelle went on to University of Utah, Mountain West Conference (Div. 1) in 2010 and a Pac 12 Conference from 2014. Michelle spent the next four years getting ready for her professional career in Basketball. Michelle received multiple awards such as NWC Freshman of the year, WNIT runner up, and WNIT All-Tournament Team. Michelle also received the Senior Class Award Nominee, Occie Evans Award recipient as University of Utah’s top female student athlete 2013, Honorable Mention WBCA All-American, Drafted 19th overall by the Seattle Storm. Michelle ended her University career with 2,100 career points being the 2nd in the school’s history and had 1,155 career rebounds making her 1st for University of Utah school history. While attending University she balanced school and the Junior National Team. In 2009, Michelle took 4th place at the World Championships in Thailand, 3rd place in 2010 at the FIBA America World Qualifier and 5th place in 2011 at World’s in Chile. In 2012 Michelle went to her 1st Olympic Games coming in top 8 in London. She ended her University time with another trip to World Championships in Turkey taking 5th place. With University done, Michelle went on to the Pan American Games taking home a gold and FIBA America’s Champion as Champion in 2015. Michelle went on to her second Olympics on Team Canada in 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil finishing top 8, and in 2017 brought home another Gold at FIBAmericup Champions. Michelle has played for the Arras Pays d’Artois Basket a French League (LFB), the USO Mondeville Basket, TGB Basket and can currently be found playing for the Lyon ASVEL Feminin Club. She gives back to the community she started with hosting the Plouffe Hoops Camp since 2015 at Harry Ainlay School for youth boys and girls. It is with great pleasure that we induct Michelle into the Hall of Fame as a 2019 Athlete Inductee.