Diana Haight

Diana Haight was born in Trail in 1964 to Jim and Rosemarie Haight and started skiing just two years later in 1966.

At the age of ten, Diana, better known as "Dee Dee" competed in her first national junior race in Owl's Head, Quebec.

After racing with the British Columbia Ski Team from 1978 to 1979, and winning a gold medal at the Canada Winter Games in 1979, Dee Dee was named to the Canadian National Ski Team in 1980 at the age of sixteen.

With the Canadian National Ski Team, Dee Dee became the first North American skier (male or female) to win the prestigious Europa Cup.

She was named British Columbia Junior Athlete of the Year in 1981 and was inducted into the Canadian High School Hall of Fame the same year.

In 1984, Dee Dee became a member of the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic Team and was named to three World Championship teams in 1982, 1985 and 1987. Dee Dee competed in all four alpine events: Downhill, Super Giant Slalom, Giant Slalom and Slalom.

She was overall Canadian Champion in 1984 and North American Champion in 1986, while her best World Cup placing was a fourth place finish in Furano, Japan.

In 1987, after having spent eight years on the ski team, Dee Dee retired from alpine skiing and began her studies in commerce, graduating with a University Gold Medal for academic achievement in 1996.

Dee Dee now lives with her husband, Thomas Arn in the Okanagan Valley.