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Inductees by Category: Athletes

These athletes have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments throughout their career. We salute them here and welcome them into the Burnaby Sports Hall Of Fame.

Lui Passaglia went on to play 25 seasons in the CFL, all with the Lions. No one has played more CFL games than Passaglia’s 408.
Mike Santorelli climbed the hockey ladder and eventually playing 406 regular season and four playoff games in the National Hockey League.
As a youngster, Mike McLenaghen thrived in the sporting breeding fields of Wesburn and Confederation Park community centres but eventually it was the soccer pitch where his talent bloomed the
Erin Gee’s softball prowess was born on the diamonds of Burnaby and thrived there for almost two decades before she took it to the national and international stage.
Fred Usselman, an East Burnaby boy, was a long, lanky sniper who was lethal playing on one of the era’s most prolific lines. The six-foot-four Usselman played alongside two other
Kevin Reynolds’ amazing athleticism helped to influence changes to figure skating judging. Based out of the elite skating program at Burnaby 8-Rinks and Reynolds represented Canada at six world championships,
Chris Joseph, who grew up in North Burnaby and played much of his minor hockey for the Burnaby Winter Club. After two seasons of major junior with the Seattle Thunderbirds
Bruce Wilson remembers he was a little tyke in North Burnaby when his father first took him and his brother to Confederation Park for a training session in his pop’s
The ‘Confed Box’ was where Eric Cowieson’s Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame career was conceived and nurtured as he helped Norburn A.C. win several provincial minor lacrosse championships.
Like most Burnaby boys in the 1940s and ’50s, Alex Carey played several sports, excelling at many of them like baseball, soccer and basketball.

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