Heo Myeong-Yoon

Heo Myeong-Yoon (born 7th September, 2022) is a Quebecois professional basketball player for the CSKA Quebec of Quebecois Women's Basketball League (QWBL). While she has not exercised her rights to the said citizenship, Heo is also eligible for Mariannois passport. After declaring early, Heo was the first overall pick in the 2043 QWBL Draft and is considered one of the greatest players in Quebecois women's basketball history. Heo has also held various positions for the QWBL Players' Association (QWBL), the Quebec Foundation, and her alma mater under various roles, and is recently named the co-principal owner of the Q-League club Perce Town.

In high school, Heo was the only unanimous selection to the Yeo Nam-Soon High School Player of the Year, two-time Frontenac High School Player of the Year, and the Sowha's All-Quebecois. During her time in college, Heo led the Queen's College Golden Gaels to two national championships and won the QIS Player of the Year honour in all three years. While leading the Queen's College side to the 79-3 record in three years, she has set 12 school and 4 conference records, latter including 2 previously set by Allison Dubois, widely considered to be the greatest Quebecois guard in the 21st century.

Heo has won two QWBL championships, one with Hamilton and one with CSKA Quebec, a bronze medal in the International Basketball Championships (IBC), two QIS Championships with Queen's College, and two Quebecois Commonwealth Games (2043, 2048). She was recently selected as the QWBL's Player of the Decade, beating out longtime friends and teammates Hazel Hanson-Conavacio and Yim Se-Ryeong for the honour.

Early Life
Heo was born in Cornwall, Frontenac to a Quebecois father of expatriate backgrounds, Heo Dong-Soo, and Donnaconan-Quebecois mother, late Maureen Turner. Her father fenced collegiately at Queen's College at Cornwall in Cornwall, and at the national team level for Quebec and Shingoryeo, before a car crash forced him into retirement. Her parents met as students as senior and junior at Queen's College, and later returned when Heo was appointed postdoctoral fellow at their alma mater.

Heo was raised in Cornwall for first ten years while her father served as a postdoc and then professor at Queen's College. While a student at Cornwall Central Primary School, Heo began playing organised basketball and volleyball at the age of eight, joining an under-10 team for Cornwall Clippers. At age 10, the Heos moved to Kingston and she began playing basketball at the junior level.