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Baie-d’Urfé is planning to honour hometown star Rhian Wilkinson by renaming a park after the Canadian soccer player.

Mayor Maria Tutino said the town decided to rename Dorset Park in her honour, describing her as a Canadian soccer superstar and a role model for Canadian youth.

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“That was her backyard for many years,” the mayor said of Wilkinson’s ties to Dorset Park.

While a council resolution approved the move last week, a formal dedication ceremony will be held next spring. Dorset Park, a sprawling green space between Victoria, Dorset and Cornwall streets, has a couple of youth soccer pitches, Tutino said.

Wilkinson, 33, who grew up in Baie-d’Urfé and attended Dorset elementary school, has represented Team Canada in 165 matches on the international soccer stage, earning a bronze medal at the London Olympics in 2012. Previously, she won a gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games and a bronze at the 2007 Pan American Games. In 2008, she was a finalist for the Canadian Soccer Association’s Female Athlete of the Year award. Though she has played as a forward and midfielder, her primary position has been right fullback.