Leanne is one of the fastest women on the water in Canada in an outrigger canoe. Where ever she travels for her racing and training she promotes awareness and understanding of Type 1 Diabetes. It’s hard not to notice her pink pump hanging proudly off her shorts.
Leanne enjoys connecting and speaking with people interested in healthy active lifestyles and fine tuning their insulin requirements for a wide range of physical activities. She feels that she learns something new from every other person with Type 1 that she meets.

Leanne is a Diabetes Champion because she uses her paddling to promote awareness and understanding that people with Diabetes just have to adjust their insulin to their life, they don’t have to adjust their life to their insulin.

In 2009, Leanne was awarded the Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association’s “Athlete of the Year” award.