Rosey Edeh (born August 16, 1966) is a

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television personality. She was a news anchor for ''Global News at Noon'' at

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and the senior reporter for ''

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''. She is the CEO of Micha Muse Media and directed her debut film'' Oliver Jones: Mind Hands Heart''. Currently she is a morning co-anchor for CTV Morning Live Ottawa.

Biography

Edeh was born in

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. She was a weather presenter providing weather forecasts on CFCF in

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before moving to the

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to work for

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and most recently as a weathercaster on

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's ''

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'' and on

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. Her running skills led to an athletic scholarship at

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, where she established herself as a world-class 400-metre

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. 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

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and competed at the

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in 1988, 1992, and 1996. Edeh won a bronze medal at the

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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

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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

External links

Rosey Edeh joins Ottawa Morning News Live.

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