| Alexa Loo | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | 盧仙泳 | ||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hant | ||||||||||
| Term Start: | 2014 | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 6 October 1972[1] | ||||||||||
| Nationality: | Canadian | ||||||||||
| Party: | ONE Richmond (municipal) | ||||||||||
| Otherparty: | BC Liberal (provincial) | ||||||||||
| Children: | 2 | ||||||||||
| Allegiance: | Canada | ||||||||||
| Branch Label: | Branch | ||||||||||
| Serviceyears: | 2022–present | ||||||||||
| Branch: | (primary reserves) | ||||||||||
| Unit: | 39 Service Battalion[2] | ||||||||||
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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.[3]
Loo was born in Vancouver and raised in the adjacent city of Richmond, British Columbia.[1] [4] Her father is Chinese-Canadian, and her mother is of French-English ancestry.[5] She attended the University of British Columbia, where she competed as both a rower and swimmer for the Thunderbirds.[6] After graduating with a bachelor of commerce degree in 1994, she joined accounting firm KPMG, eventually gaining the chartered accountant designation.[6] [7]
Loo married Ari Goosen shortly after the 2010 Winter Olympics; the couple has two sons.[8]
She began snowboarding at 15 years old, and joined a racing club in 1995.[6] By the 2000s, she was coached by Mark Fawcett;[7] she also counted Jasey-Jay Anderson among her mentors.[5]
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.[7] [1] At that year's Winter Olympics in Turin, she finished 20th overall in the women's PGS qualifying runs.[1] [6] [9]
After finishing 12th in women's PGS at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver,[1] [9] she announced her retirement from competitive snowboarding in July that year.[10]
Other career highlights include:
Loo served as the athlete representative to the International Ski Federation (FIS) and for many years sat on the board of directors of AthletesCAN [11] - the association of Canada's national team athletes.
Loo ran for Richmond City Council for the first time in the 2011 municipal election; she finished in 11th place and was not elected.[12] She ran again in the 2014 municipal election as an independent candidate,[12] this time winning a council seat by finishing eighth overall.[13] She was re-elected for a second term in 2018.[14]
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.[15] In the October 24, 2020 provincial election, she lost to New Democratic Party candidate Henry Yao by a margin of 179 votes.[16] [17]
She was re-elected to Richmond City Council for a third term in 2022, this time running as a candidate for ONE Richmond.[18]
Top 8 candidates elected — Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold
| RITE Richmond | Carol Day (X) | 20,871 | 7.01 | ||
| Richmond Citizens' Association | Harold Steves (X) | 19,136 | 6.43 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Chak Au (X) | 18,026 | 6.05 | ||
| Richmond First | Bill McNulty (X) | 17,242 | 5.79 | ||
| Richmond Citizens' Association | Kelly Greene | 16,464 | 5.53 | ||
| Richmond First | Linda McPhail (X) | 15,521 | 5.21 | ||
| RITE Richmond | Michael Wolfe | 13,627 | 4.58 | ||
| Independent | Alexa Loo (X) | 13,212 | 4.44 | ||
| Richmond First | Derek Dang (X) | 13,115 | 4.40 | ||
| Richmond First | Andy Hobbs | 12,336 | 4.14 | ||
| Richmond Citizens' Association | Judie Schneider | 11,672 | 3.92 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Ken Johnston (X) | 11,161 | 3.75 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Jonathan Ho | 11,140 | 3.74 | ||
| Richmond Citizens' Association | Jack Trovato | 10,915 | 3.67 | ||
| Richmond First | Sunny Ho | 8,933 | 3.00 | ||
| RITE Richmond | Niti Sharma | 8,917 | 2.99 | ||
| RITE Richmond | Henry Yao | 8,467 | 2.84 | ||
| Richmond First | Peter Liu | 8,357 | 2.81 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Parm Bains | 7,973 | 2.68 | ||
| Independent | John Roston | 7,961 | 2.67 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Melissa Zhang | 7,708 | 2.38 | ||
| Independent | Kerry Starchuk | 6,959 | 2.34 | ||
| Independent | Jason Tarnow | 5,720 | 1.92 | ||
| Independent | Adil Awan | 4,278 | 1.44 | ||
| Independent | Manjit Singh | 4,134 | 1.39 | ||
| Independent | Dennis Page | 3,478 | 1.17 | ||
| Independent | Andy Chiang | 3,337 | 1.12 | ||
| Independent | Theresa Head | 3,251 | 1.09 | ||
| Independent | Patrick J. Saunders | 2,241 | 0.75 | ||
| Independent | Zhe Zhang | 2,241 | 0.75 |
| Richmond First | Bill McNulty | 17,417 | 7.08 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Chak Au | 15,742 | 6.40 | ||
| Richmond First | Linda McPhail | 15,679 | 6.37 | ||
| Richmond First | Derek Dang | 14,844 | 6.03 | ||
| Independent | Harold Steves | 14,417 | 5.86 | ||
| Rite Richmond | Carol Day | 13,389 | 5.44 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Ken Johnston | 12,792 | 5.20 | ||
| Independent | Alexa Loo | 12,595 | 5.12 | ||
| Richmond First | Andy Hobbs | 12,013 | 4.88 | ||
| Rite Richmond | Michael Wolfe | 11,765 | 4.78 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Dan Baxter | 9,952 | 4.04 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Kirby Graeme | 9,869 | 4.01 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Sal Bhullar | 8,965 | 3.64 | ||
| Independent | Dave Semple | 8,566 | 3.48 | ||
| Richmond First | Elsa Wong | 8,500 | 3.45 | ||
| Richmond Community Coalition | Helen Quan | 8,375 | 3.40 | ||
| Richmond Reform | Sunny Ho | 6,926 | 2.81 | ||
| Renew Richmond | Grace Tsang | 6,222 | 2.53 | ||
| Independent | Roy Sakata | 5,824 | 2.37 | ||
| Independent | Jerome Dickey | 4,708 | 1.91 | ||
| Independent | Henry Juin-Hsien Yao | 4,412 | 1.79 | ||
| Independent | Jennifer Huang | 3,977 | 1.62 | ||
| Renew Richmond | Adil Awan | 3,587 | 1.46 | ||
| Independent | Janos Bergman | 3,248 | 1.32 | ||
| Independent | Don Montgomery | 2,997 | 1.22 | ||
| Independent | Laura Nastasa | 2,295 | 0.93 | ||
| Independent | Patrick S. Saunders | 2,108 | 0.86 | ||
| Independent | Kristian von Schalburg | 1,619 | 0.66 | ||
| Independent | Gary Yuill | 1,406 | 0.57 | ||
| Independent | Lee Gildemeester | 1,258 | 0.51 | ||
| Independent | Jun L. Wuyan | 694 | 0.28 |