Early Life
Felicien carries her mother's maiden name, whose origins are in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. Her mother named her "Perdita" after a contestant on the television game show, The Price is Right.
Felicien grew up in Pickering, Ontario, where, as a student, she began competing in track and field events at her school. At first, she competed in the 100m dash, 200m dash and Long Jump. Felicien dedicated herself to hurdling and won the Ontario high-school hurdling championship in 1998. That year she added the first of two consecutive Canadian junior championships. Her performance at a scholastic meet in Ohio brought offers of athletic scholarships from a number of U.S. universities from which she chose the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she enrolled in the study of kinesiology.
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