Alexa Loo

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Alexa Loo (born October 6, 1972) is a Canadian athlete, accountant and politician, serving as city councillor for Richmond, British Columbia since 2014. As a snowboarder, she competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.

Early life and family

Loo was born in Vancouver and raised in the adjacent city of Richmond, British Columbia. Her father is Chinese-Canadian, and her mother is of French-English ancestry. She attended the University of British Columbia, where she competed as both a rower and swimmer for the Thunderbirds. After graduating with a bachelor of commerce degree in 1994, she joined accounting firm KPMG, eventually gaining the chartered accountant designation.

Loo married Ari Goosen shortly after the 2010 Winter Olympics; the couple has two sons.

Snowboarding career

She began snowboarding at 15 years old, and joined a racing club in 1995. By the 2000s, she was coached by Mark Fawcett; she also counted Jasey-Jay Anderson among her mentors.

In 2006 she won a bronze medal in the woman's parallel giant slalom (PGS) at the World Cup in Plan de Corones, Italy, becoming the first Canadian woman to earn a World Cup medal in alpine snowboarding. At that year's Winter Olympics in Turin, she finished 20th overall in the women's PGS qualifying runs.

After finishing 12th in women's PGS at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she announced her retirement from competitive snowboarding in July that year.

Other career highlights include:

• Finished ninth in PGS at the World Cup Lac Beauport, Quebec.
• Gold medalist in PGS at the Nor Am Cup in Copper Mountain (Colorado).
• Eighth in PGS at the 2005 World Cup, Tandadalen, Sweden.
• 16th in PGS at the 2005 World Cup in Sapporo-Makomanai, Japan.
• 17th in PGS at the 2005 World Cup in Bardonecchia, Italy.
• Silver medalist in parallel slalom at the 2005 NorAm Cup PSL, Sun Peaks, British Columbia.
• 14th in PGS at the 2004 World Cup, Soelden, Austria.

Loo served as the athlete representative to the International Ski Federation (FIS) and for many years sat on the board of directors of AthletesCAN - the association of Canada's national team athletes.

Politics

Loo ran for Richmond City Council for the first time in the 2011 municipal election; she finished in 11th place and was not elected. She ran again in the 2014 municipal election as an independent candidate, this time winning a council seat by finishing eighth overall. She was re-elected for a second term in 2018.

In September 2020, Loo became the British Columbia Liberal Party candidate for the riding of Richmond South Centre, in a bid to replace retiring member of the Legislative Assembly Linda Reid. In the October 24, 2020 provincial election, she lost to New Democratic Party candidate Henry Yao by a margin of 179 votes.

She was re-elected to Richmond City Council for a third term in 2022, this time running as a candidate for ONE Richmond.

Electoral history

Provincial elections

Municipal elections

• Top 8 candidates elected — Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold * ::data[format=table title="[[2018 British Columbia municipal elections]]: [[Richmond, British Columbia City Council|Richmond City Council]]"] | Party | Council candidate | Vote | % | |---|---|---|---| | | RITE Richmond | Carol Day (X) | 20,871 | | | Richmond Citizens' Association | Harold Steves (X) | 19,136 | | | Richmond Community Coalition | Chak Au (X) | 18,026 | | | Richmond First | Bill McNulty (X) | 17,242 | | | Richmond Citizens' Association | Kelly Greene | 16,464 | | | Richmond First | Linda McPhail (X) | 15,521 | | | RITE Richmond | Michael Wolfe | 13,627 | | | Independent | Alexa Loo (X) | 13,212 | | | Richmond First | Derek Dang (X) | 13,115 | | | Richmond First | Andy Hobbs | 12,336 | | | Richmond Citizens' Association | Judie Schneider | 11,672 | | | Richmond Community Coalition | Ken Johnston (X) | 11,161 | | | Richmond Community Coalition | Jonathan Ho | 11,140 | | | Richmond Citizens' Association | Jack Trovato | 10,915 | | | Richmond First | Sunny Ho | 8,933 | | | RITE Richmond | Niti Sharma | 8,917 | | | RITE Richmond | Henry Yao | 8,467 | | | Richmond First | Peter Liu | 8,357 | | | Richmond Community Coalition | Parm Bains | 7,973 | | | Independent | John Roston | 7,961 | | | Richmond Community Coalition | Melissa Zhang | 7,708 | | | Independent | Kerry Starchuk | 6,959 | | | Independent | Jason Tarnow | 5,720 | | | Independent | Adil Awan | 4,278 | | | Independent | Manjit Singh | 4,134 | | | Independent | Dennis Page | 3,478 | | | Independent | Andy Chiang | 3,337 | | | Independent | Theresa Head | 3,251 | | | Independent | Patrick J. Saunders | 2,241 | | | Independent | Zhe Zhang | 2,241 | ::

::data[format=table title="[[2014 British Columbia municipal elections]]: [[Richmond, British Columbia City Council|Richmond City Council]]"]

Party	Council candidate	Vote	%
	Richmond First	Bill McNulty	17,417
	Richmond Community Coalition	Chak Au	15,742
	Richmond First	Linda McPhail	15,679
	Richmond First	Derek Dang	14,844
	Independent	Harold Steves	14,417
	Rite Richmond	Carol Day	13,389
	Richmond Community Coalition	Ken Johnston	12,792
	Independent	Alexa Loo	12,595
	Richmond First	Andy Hobbs	12,013
	Rite Richmond	Michael Wolfe	11,765
	Richmond Community Coalition	Dan Baxter	9,952
	Richmond Community Coalition	Kirby Graeme	9,869
	Richmond Community Coalition	Sal Bhullar	8,965
	Independent	Dave Semple	8,566
	Richmond First	Elsa Wong	8,500
	Richmond Community Coalition	Helen Quan	8,375
	Richmond Reform	Sunny Ho	6,926
	Renew Richmond	Grace Tsang	6,222
	Independent	Roy Sakata	5,824
	Independent	Jerome Dickey	4,708
	Independent	Henry Juin-Hsien Yao	4,412
	Independent	Jennifer Huang	3,977
	Renew Richmond	Adil Awan	3,587
	Independent	Janos Bergman	3,248
	Independent	Don Montgomery	2,997
	Independent	Laura Nastasa	2,295
	Independent	Patrick S. Saunders	2,108
	Independent	Kristian von Schalburg	1,619
	Independent	Gary Yuill	1,406
	Independent	Lee Gildemeester	1,258
	Independent	Jun L. Wuyan	694
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References

References

1. (18 September 2011). "Alexa Loo - Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website". Canadian Olympic Committee.
2. "Alexa Loo — Biography".
3. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163451/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/alexa-loo-1.html Olympic results]
4. (2014-11-21). "Alexa Loo: Chinese-only signs in Richmond 'ridiculous'". [[CBC News]].
5. (2009-12-01). "Eleven Minutes With Alexa Loo, Olympic Snowboarding Veteran". Scout Magazine.
6. Drexhage, Glenn. (February 8, 2010). "Hooked on racing: Grad's grace under pressure". University of British Columbia.
7. Christie, Jack. (2009-11-04). "Snowboarder Alexa Loo is persistence personified". [[The Georgia Straight]].
8. Booth, Mark. (2014-01-29). "Olympian turns her attention to Kidsport Richmond".
9. "Alexa Loo Biography". International Olympic Committee.
10. (2010-07-22). "Veteran snowboarder Alexa Loo retires". The Canadian Press, via [[CBC Sports]].
11. "AthletesCAN website - Prior Board Members List".
12. Wood, Graeme. (2014-09-16). "Alexa Loo to make second attempt at city council".
13. Wood, Graeme. (2014-11-14). "Community activist Carol Day and Olympian Loo win seats on Richmond council".
14. (16 November 2014). "Veteran Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie wins sixth term". Vancouver Sun.
15. Rantanen, Maria. (2020-09-21). "Updated: Richmond Coun. Alexa Loo to run provincially". Richmond News.
16. Rantanen, Maria. (2020-11-07). "Update: NDP secures third provincial seat in Richmond".
17. Larsen, Karin. (2020-11-07). "Projected Green seat flipped to Liberals following tightest race in B.C.".
18. Campbell, Alan. (2022-10-08). "Municipal election: Mayoral, city council candidate profiles".

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