The Windsor Essex Sports Hall of Fame will induct Lancer women’s basketball alumna Miah-Marie Langlois (BComm 2014) and head coach Chantal Vallée as part of its class of 2024 in October.

Langlois, inducted into the University of Windsor Alumni Sports Hall of Fame in 2022, played guard for the Lancers on four straight national championship teams, named tournament most valuable player three times. Canadian Interuniversity Sport honoured her as defensive player of the year for three straight seasons. She twice earned the Banner Shield as UWindsor female athlete and once received the DeMarco Award for combining academic and athletic prowess.

After graduating, Langlois joined Canada’s senior women’s basketball program, representing the nation at the 2016 Rio Olympics and helping Team Canada earn gold medals at the Pan American Games and FIBA Americas Cup. She played professionally in Sweden and Russia before retiring in 2019.

Head coach of the blue and gold since 2005, Vallée built the program into a national contender and tied a league record with five consecutive national titles from 2011 to 2015.

During the 2012-13 season, the team became the first in Ontario University Athletics history to go undefeated over a 21-game schedule. Vallée made history again in 2018, when she took a sabbatical to become general manager and head coach of the Hamilton Honey Badgers, the first woman to lead a men's professional team.

Canada Basketball has sought her skills as a coach at the junior and senior levels. She has coached at two World University Games, a world championship, and a FIBA championship.

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The 42nd Windsor-Essex Sports Hall of Fame ceremony will take place on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Ciociaro Club of Windsor. Besides Langlois and Vallée, inductees include Luke Willson, Tyrone Crawford, and Josh Bourke of the National Football League; Steve Ott of the National Hockey League; and Meghan Agosta of the Canadian Olympic team in women’s hockey.