VANCOUVER - A crowd of over 1,000 athletes and alumni is expected to be on hand to witness the upcoming 20th induction of former athletes, teams and builders into the UBC Sports Hall of Fame. The Class of 2013 will take their place among the 107 individuals and 20 teams currently in the Hall of Fame at the annual Big Block Athletic Awards Dinner at the Vancouver Convention Centre on April 3.
Athletes
Penny Cooper – field hockey
A litany of accolades and awards places Penny Cooper in the upper echelon of a countless number of extraordinary women's field hockey players at UBC over the years. A member of the Thunderbirds from 1987 to 1992 under Hall of Fame coach Gail Wilson, Penny led the Thunderbirds to a CIAU (now CIS) national championship title in her 1990 graduating year. She was named a Canada West all-star in all but her first year; a second-team All Canadian in 1988; a first-team All Canadian in 1989 and 1990, and was voted to the CIS Championship All-Tournament Team in 1990. Throughout much of her UBC playing days and beyond she was a member of Canada's national team and an Olympian in Seoul in 1988, where, along with UBC team mate and UBC Sports Hall of Fame member Melanie Slade, she helped Canada to a respectable sixth-place finish. She was awarded the Harry Jerome Comeback Award by Sport BC in 1988 and UBC's Kay Brearley Award for service to women's athletics in 1992.
Jessica Deglau - swimming
Jessica Deglau was a butterfly specialist on five CIS Championship swim teams at UBC between 1995 and 2002. She took time off from university to focus on training for Olympic competition in 1996 and 2000. The Vancouver native was a finalist in the 1996 Games with a sixth-place finish in 200-metre butterfly, setting a Canadian record in the process. She was also a finalist in both the 1996 and 2000 Games as a member of the 800-metre and 400-metre freestyle relay teams. She won a total of five Commonwealth Games medals in 1998 and 2002, and at the 1999 Pan American Games she posted the second fastest time in the world that year in 200-metre butterfly. She won a total of 29 medals in CIS competition, the most ever for a female swimmer, and was CIS Swimmer of the Year in 1999 and 2000. She capped off her graduation year in 2002 as a co-recipient of the Marilyn Pomfret Trophy and as an Academic All Canadian in the Faculty of Arts.
Jack Henwood – Football
An extraordinarily versatile athlete, Jack Henwood played on UBC's basketball and rugby teams, but it was on the gridiron under Hall of Fame coach Frank Gnup that he made his most indelible marks in UBC sport history. He was a multi-purpose player throughout his UBC football career from 1956 to 1959, playing quarterback, running back, defensive back and added kicking and punting duties in his final two seasons. Playing in his freshman season against tough US opponents, he remarkably led the Thunderbirds in rushing yardage, scoring, total offence and interceptions, and was the only UBC player to be named to the prestigious Evergreen Conference all-star team that year. He continued to lead UBC in scoring throughout the remainder of his playing career. In UBC's first season in the Canada West conference in 1959, he was instrumental in the Thunderbirds winning the conference championship and earning a berth in the team's first-ever national championship. The 1960 Bobby Gaul Trophy winner set many offensive records, and his 100 per cent single-game pass completion record (10/10) set against Saskatchewan in 1959 remains unbroken.
Jessica Mills – Basketball
After a brilliant athletic and academic career from 1995 to 2000, Jessica Mills graduated as UBC's all-time scoring leader with 1993 points and an Academic All Canadian in each of her five seasons. In just her second season she led the Canada West conference in field goal percentage (56.7%) and was consistently ranked in the top 15 in the conference in numerous statistical categories from 1997 to 2000. She was named a first-team All Canadian in 1999 and 2000 and was the Marilyn Pomfret Trophy winner as Female Athlete of the Year in 2000. She was also named the Top Female Academic All Canadian in the Canada West conference for the 1998-99 season. She entered the UBC Faculty of Medicine in 2000 and returned to War Memorial Gymnasium for a year as an assistant coach.
Victor Warren – field hockey
The brother of 1996 UBC Sports Hall of Fame inductee Charlotte Warren and son of the late Harry Warren, UBC's first-ever Olympic athlete and an inaugural UBC Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Victor Warren was one of Canada's top field hockey players in the late 1950's and early 1960's. He led the Thunderbirds to Vancouver City League Championships in 1958, '60 and '63 and is still recognized as UBC's all-time scoring leader, with 114 goals in 92 games over six seasons. He was also selected to the provincial team on six occasions, leading BC to four national championships. A key member of Canada's national team in the 1960's, he played for Canada in the 1964 Olympic Games along with fellow UBC alumni Peter Buckland, Lee Wright and John Young.
Teams
1989-91 Men's Soccer team
With UBC's men's soccer teams so completely dominant in Canada West and CIS in the late 1980's and early 1990's, the UBC Sports Hall of Fame selection committee had an inordinately challenging task identifying which among the teams from this period was most worthy of induction. After considerable consultation and discussion at both the nomination and selection stages, the committee selected the players who played for UBC during a three-year period in which the Thunderbirds were undefeated against Canadian university competition with an overall record of 30-0-8, won the CIS Championship in each of those years, and consisted of a core of many of the most outstanding and officially recognized CIS players at the conclusion of each of those seasons.
Additionally, those same teams represented Canada at the World Collegiate Soccer Championships (Invitational) in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Cuidad Juarez, Mexico in 1990, 1991, 1992), and qualified for the championship final in 1991, losing by one goal to the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Between 1989 and 1991, four UBC players were first-team All Canadians, five were second-team all Canadians, and a total of nine players played professionally in the Canadian Soccer League. In 1989, UBC's Dick Mosher was named CIS Coach of the Year and son Mike (UBC's current head coach) was selected as CIS Championship Tournament MVP. Rob Reed was named CIS Player of the Year in 1991.
The UBC players who played in at least one of those three years are: Paolo Bordignon, Steve Burns, Ed Cannon, Randy Celebrini, Rick Celebrini, Kevin Colbow, Bill Connor, Willie Cromack, Paul Dickson, Enrique Domingo, Colin Elmes, Markus Felderer, Jamie Gurniak, Jeff Hutton, Gary Kern, Tom Kim, Mark Korn (assistant coach), Ray Lohr, Gordon MacIntyre, Ken More (assistant coach), Dick Mosher (head coach),
Mike Mosher, Marno Olafson, Pat Onstad, Dave Partridge (assistant coach), Marcello Pavan, Alex Percy, Colin Pettingale, Rob Reed, Gordon Sanders, Doug Schultz, Fernando Torres, Ron Village, Mark Watson, Anthony Weaver, Neil Wilkinson, Gregor Young and Rob Zambrano.
1972-74 women's volleyball team
Coached by Marilyn Russell (Pomfret), the 1972-73 UBC women's volleyball team was just the second UBC women's team in any sport to claim a national university championship, winning the 1973 Canadian Women's Interuniversity Athletic Union (CWIAU) Volleyball Championship at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia following an undefeated regular season. The Thunderbirds followed that up with another undefeated regular season the following year (1973-74) and claimed a second consecutive CWIAU Championship before a home-town crowd at War Memorial Gymnasium. Although the era pre-dated selection of conference all-stars and All-Canadians, the team's key players in those two seasons included subsequent national team members Betty Baxter, Sandy Vosburgh and Maureen Fishleigh.
The UBC players who played in at least one of those two years are: Margaret Atkinson, Betty Baxter, Laura Buker, Sandi Burh, Ellen Crute, Lynne Day, Jo-Anne Fenton, Maureen Fishleigh, Patricia Horn, Faye Hudson, Karen Johnson, Carin McBean, Norma McDonald, Susan Murray, Jacquie Pike, Sandy Richardson (manager), Marilyn Russell (coach), Vickey Sahota, Anne
Taggart (manager), Janice Van De Putte, Sandi Vosburgh, Sharon Williams and Barbara Woolner.
Builders
Dr. Rob Lloyd-Smith
A unanimous committee selection for induction into the UBC Sports Hall of Fame, Dr. Rob Lloyd-Smith has been the head sport medicine physician for UBC Thunderbird teams since 1982. He has been credited by numerous UBC coaches with making significant contributions to conference and national championship victories by providing top-flight injury treatment to a countless number of UBC student-athletes from across the entire varsity sport portfolio. After completing medical training at McGill University in 1977, Rob ventured west and soon entered general practice. In 1982 he came to UBC to work at the Student Health Service as well as the BC Sports Medicine Clinic (now the Allan McGavin Sports and Exercise Medicine Centre) where he was the first to complete the newly developed Fellowship in Sports Medicine. He began as a clinical instructor in both the UBC Faculty of Medicine and School of Kinesiology in 1984 and earned the designation of clinical professor in 1999. His academic credentials and publications are numerous and his medical consulting experience has spanned a broad spectrum of organizations including Canada's national biathlon, nordic ski and field hockey teams, the FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski) Medical Committee, the NHL Players Association, and the National Ballet of Canada. Most recently, he was chief medical officer at the men's ice hockey venues during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
For tickets and information, please contact Chris Ufford at 604-827-5215 or chris.ufford@ubc.ca
For a complete list of current inductees and bios, go to www.ubcsportshalloffame.com
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