Historic day for Sask. gymnast at Canada Games

What’s better than winning one medal at the Canada Winter Games?

How about winning gold, silver and bronze all in the same day?

That’s what gymnast Rylee Miller of Saskatoon did on Friday in P.E.I., making her the Saskatchewan’s most-decorated female gymnast in Canada Games history.

Miller won the gold in the floor event, earned silver in the beam and collected bronze in the uneven bars. It was also the first gold ever won by a Saskatchewan woman for the floor event.

“After I went, I found out I was first and my coach was super excited about it. So I just waited for the last three girls to go and the last girl she had a really a good routine so we were waiting on that. And then my coach told me and it was super exciting,” Miller said from PEI.

Before Friday, Team Saskatchewan only had a total of four medals in female artistic gymnastics in the 56-year-history of the Canada Games. Miller almost doubled that number in a single day.

“Honestly, I wasn’t feeling very nervous about it. I was just happy with how I did and I was just happy with any outcome to come out of this,” Miller added.

Friday was full of firsts for Saskatchewan, as Saskatoon gymnast Jordan Carroll became the first Saskatchewan athlete to win gold in the pommel horse event.

All gymnastics events wrapped up on Friday, with Saskatchewan winning two additional medals earlier in the Games in male and female synchronized trampoline.