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After helping to rebuild the South Burnaby Metro Club’s soccer program in the 1990s, Ken Meehan’s attention turned from the pitch to the hardwood. Meehan had noticed there wasn’t any organized youth basketball in Burnaby, so he founded one at SBMC in 1996. Meehan got some SBMC members to form a committee and then recruited former NBA player and Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame member Lars Hansen to run the boys program and local coaching legend Norm Roberts to run the girls.

Meehan managed and operated the boys program by himself. He registered players, organized teams, planned game and practice schedules, coached house league teams, did budgets and assembled volunteer coaches.

Over the years the SBMC Eagles program grew with more and more boys and girls joining. And they were good. The U13 elite teams alone have won 22 titles. Local high schools have been beneficiaries of the program too. St. Thomas More Collegiate has had many SBMC players on its teams that have advanced to 3A provincial championships while Burnaby South has become a powerhouse capturing the provincial 4A title in 2018, 2020 and 2022 thanks in part to the skills groundwork laid by the program that Meehan built.

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