International Career
Schlegel established herself as one of the best gymnasts in Canadian history when she won a gold medal for best all-around gymnast at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta. At the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she won a bronze medal as the third-best gymnast in the games, two silver medals for the uneven bars and vault, and a gold medal as a member of the first-place Canadian team. She also won a bronze medal in the vault at the 1980 World Cup in Toronto, the first-ever World Cup medal for a Canadian.
She was selected as a member of the Canadian national team for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia, but was unable to participate when Canada joined the United States–led boycott of the Moscow games in protest of the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. (Russia was then the dominant constituent republic of the Soviet Union.)
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