Alex Devlin was an All-American and NAIA all-star during his basketball playing days at Simon Fraser University. He went on to play on the Canadian national team for four years.
Devlin was a member of Canada’s fourth-place finishing team at the 1976 Olympics Games. A graduate of Burnaby Central Secondary, Devlin also coached at SFU from 1976 to ’78. He helped Canada to fourth place at the World Student Games in 1973 and eighth at the world championships a year later.
Devlin also received an invitation to the NBA Portland Trailblazers rookie camp in ’73. Devlin is currently an active and successful high school basketball coach in Port Moody. In 2007, he was inducted into the B.C. and Canada basketball halls of fame.
