A key figure in a dominant run for Bisons women's volleyball in the early 90s and a competitor on the international stage, Michelle Sawatzky-Koop has entered the Canada West Hall of Fame.

Sawatzky-Koop's induction was announced Tuesday, as the former women's volleyball player became Manitoba's fourth CW Hall of Famer.

The Steinbach, Man. native played for the Bisons between 1988 and 1993, helping Manitoba to national titles in 1990, 1991, and 1992, winning championship MVP honours in 1991 and 1992. During her Bisons career, she was named the Bison Sports Female Athlete of the Year for 1992-93.

She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba's School of Music and has been a renaissance talent since — an accomplished pianist, a mainstay on Steinbach radio, a coach of youth volleyball, and a regular supporter of the sport in the province.

Along with her success at the university level, Sawatzky-Koop competed for Canada on multiple occasions, highlighted by her 1996 trip to the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta, where the senior national team finished ninth. She also competed with Canada in 1995 as part of the bronze medal finish at the Pan American Games in Argentina.

Sawatzky-Koop joins women's soccer alum Desiree Scott, the 1968-70 Vanier Cup-winning Bisons football teams, and football alum Israel Idonije as Bisons that have been inducted into the Canada West Hall of Fame.

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