Joy SpearChief-Morris

Joy SpearChief-Morris (born 17 March 1994) is an indigenous Canadian hurdler from Lethbridge, Alberta. She is a multiple Ontario University Athletics and U Sports (formerly Canadian Interuniversity Sport) track champion and has competed for the Canadian U23 National Team. A Blackfoot from Alberta's Blood Tribe (also known as the Kainai Nation), SpearChief-Morris was the (female) recipient of the 2017 Tom Longboat Awards, awarded annually by the Aboriginal Sport Circle to the most outstanding male and female indigenous athletes in Canada.

Her mother is Kainai First Nation and her father is an African-American from Los Angeles. Currently, she holds the 115th position in the World Ranking of the International Association of Athletics Federations for 100-metre hurdles, scoring 1137 points. Her best position to date in such an event has been 111th.

In the Women's Overall Ranking, she occupies the 1400th position. In June 2019, SpearChief-Morris was announced as part of the Canadian delegation for the 2019 FISU Summer Universiade, held in July, in Italy. In the 100-metre hurdles, she obtained the fifth place in the final (13.34 seconds).

That was her first time competing in the hurdles on the international stage. She trained to win a spot on the Canadian Olympic team and compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, but was unsuccessful.