Veronica McDonald (born in 1995), participated in Arctic Sports competitions from a young age, and has been a coach in these traditional Indigenous sports.[1] A member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta, Canada, McDonald lives in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.[1] She holds two Arctic Winter Games records in kneel jump and triple jump, was a recipient of the Sport North Federation's Junior Female Athlete in 2018, and won both Junior (2012) and All-Around Open Senior Female Athlete in Arctic Sports (2014, 2018) at the Arctic Winter Games.