Canadian beach volleyball player Melissa Humana-Paredes, left, says 'there are a lot of emotions' as she prepares to play before as many as 30 relatives at the Pan Am Games in Chile, where her mother Myriam, right, was born.
| CBC Sports LoadedIt promises to be an emotional return to Santiago this week at the Pan Am Games for Canadian beach volleyball player Melissa Humana-Paredes, the daughter of two Chilean expatriates. For Skylar Park and her brothers, it's their first trip to their mother's homeland.
"There are a lot of emotions. It'll be their first time watching me play which is so special," she said in a recent interview with Anastasia Bucsis of CBC Sports. "I haven't had the chance to go back in a few years, maybe seven or eight. Fifty years ago, Myriam and husband Hernan Humana had their lives changed forever with the beginning of a brutal military dictatorship in Chile that lasted nearly two decades.Watch Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson take on Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia, in the women's quarterfinals at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Apizaco, Mexico.
Hernan represented a Chilean national team for indoor volleyball during the 1970s and emigrated to Canada in 1980. He coachedMyriam Paredes, who will spend the Pan Am Games with 20 to 30 family members, was once in Chile's national ballet. about life during the 17-year reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet, who led the coup and died in 2006.
Despite the short turnaround from worlds, Humana-Paredes is thankful she and Wilkerson prioritized competing at the Pan Am Games.
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