Thompson Torpedo A
U of M Sensation
By Scott Taylor, Photos by Ian McCausland
daughter on my own,” said Moors,
whose family is from God’s Lake First
Nation.
“I’d been out of school for awhile and
I really wanted to go back. When I first
went to the U of M, back when I was
18, I was taking nursing and that wasn’t
for me. It’s just something my parents
and teachers in high school thought
I’d be good at. But I’d been coaching
swimming and really working out at the
gym. I was in pretty incredible shape
and I was really starting to understand
my body. I was getting interested in
how the human body worked and so I
decided I wanted to take Kinesiology.
So in 2012, at 26, I decided to go back to
the U of M.”
Kimberly Moors simply
knew she had to be in
school. She knew that
working as a lifeguard
in Thompson, raising
her young daughter and
coaching competitive swimming on a
part-time basis wasn’t the answer.
Deep in her heart, she knew there
was a lot more out there. So at the age of
26, Moors decided to try university one
more time. These days, Moors will be
the first to admit that returning to the
University of Manitoba was probably
the greatest decision she ever could
have made.
“I was in Thompson, I was out of
school, I was lifeguarding and coaching
at the Torpedoes and I was raising my
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Since that decision Moors has been
on quite a ride.
This past spring, in her third season
with the Bisons – it’s her fourth year of
eligibility, but we’ll get back to that in a
minute – she was awesome. On Day 2
of the Canadian Intra-University Sport
(CIS) Swimming Championships at
the University of Victoria, Moors won a
bronze medal in the women’s 50-metre
butterfly. She improve