Twenty-three-year-old Timmins native Meghan Mahon will be in Peru next month… as part of Canada’s goalball team at the Parapan American Games.
Goalball is the official Paralympic sport for the blind and visually impaired, and has no equivalent able-bodied sport.
Mahon is legally blind due to a genetic condition that made her visually impaired at birth.
Growing up she played hockey, was on the track team at O’Gorman High School and discovered goalball at the R. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Brantford, where she went for Grade 12 and an extra year.
“I really am up for any kind of physical activity or sport,” she remarks. “and goalball was just one of those new things and turns out that I was good at it and I enjoyed it so I stuck with it since then.”
( Angela Burger/Canadian Paralympic Committee)
She says right now, goalball is her primary focus.
“However, recreationally I also play blind hockey and since moving to Alberta have really taken advantage of being in the mountains and gotten back snowboarding.”
Mahon lives in Calgary, where she works with kids for the CNIB.