Cindy (Montgomerie) Tye
An outstanding multi-sport athlete, Cindy Montgomerie Tye excelled in soccer, basketball and fastball during her years at CEC. Cindy was always the most outstanding player on any soccer field. She was also a valuable member of NSSAF championship teams in basketball and fastball. She was the Female Athlete of the Year at both Truro Junior High School and CEC. In her first year at Acadia University in 1990, Cindy was selected the AUS Rookie of The Year and helped lead the Axettes to the CIS soccer title. She was a five-time AUS all- star. In her last two years at Acadia she was a CIS All-canadian in soccer and the university’s Female Athlete of the Year. Always a conscientious student, Cindy was an Academic All-canadian her last three years at Acadia.
Her achievements in senior women’s soccer were equally impressive. She helped teams win provincial championships 12 times and was a key player on club teams that captured four silver medals and two bronze medals at the national championship. In 1995 she helped a team out of Edmonton win the national women’s senior title. The pinnacle of her soccer career was when she was selected for the Canadian national team from 2001 to 2003. Following her playing career Cindy began to give back to soccer as a coach. She guided the Nova Scotia Canada Games Team to a fifth- place finish in 2009, a fourth-place finish in 2013, and a bronze-medal performance in 2017.
A former assistant coach with the national under-20 team, Cindy is currently an assistant coach with Canada’s under-15 team as well as the high performance director with the regional Centre of Excellence and the head coach for women’s soccer at Dalhousie University.
She has already been inducted into the Acadia Sports Hall of Fame, the Colchester Sports Wall of Fame, and in 2010-2011 she was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame.