Trinity Ellis is Canada's lone returning Olympic luge athlete of 6-member team

Canada has named its six athletes for the Olympic luge team, with five first-time Olympians set to hit the big stage.

Embyr-Lee Susko, Kailey Allan, Beattie Podulsky, Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski will all be debutants in Italy.

Trinity Ellis, headed to her second Games, and Susko will compete in the women's singles.

Allan and Podulsky will be in the women's doubles, while Wardrope and Zajanski are set to compete in the men's doubles.

Ellis contributed to the sixth-place finish in the mixed team relay following a 14th-place finish in the women's singles race at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

Women's doubles luge will make its debut in Milan Cortina.