Edeh was born in
London. She was a weather presenter providing weather forecasts on
CFCF in
Montreal, Quebec before moving to the
United States to work for
CNN and most recently as a weathercaster on
NBC's
Early Today and on
MSNBC. Her running skills led to an athletic scholarship at
Rice University in
Houston, where she established herself as a world-class 400-metre
hurdler. Based on her 100-metre hurdle time she was considered one of the best athletes to attend Rice and was inducted into the Rice Hall of Fame. At the time of her induction she was ranked sixth in the world. She was a five time All America at the university. She lived in
Lasalle, Quebec and competed at the
Olympic Games in 1988, 1992, and 1996. Edeh won a bronze medal at the
1990 Commonwealth Games as a member of the 4 x 400 metre relay team; she was on the gold medal-winning 4 x 400 metre relay team, at the 1992 World Cup of Track and Field in
Havana, Cuba. In the 400-metre hurdles final at the
1996 Summer Olympics Edeh set a Canadian national record time that stood over 23 years, until broken by
Sage Watson in 2019. In July 2016 her daughter
Micha Powell was named to
Canada's Olympic team as an alternate. In September 2020, Rosey became a co-anchor of the CTV Morning News Live Ottawa. == References ==