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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.

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Des Archer

How about this for a record: 80 wins, 13 losses. That’s the boxing record of our athlete inductee, Des Archer. Coached by Hall of Fame member, the late Harry Twist,
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Karl Alzner

Karl Alzner has won not one, but two World Championship titles. A product of Burnaby minor hockey, he played his junior hockey in Calgary where he was named the WHL
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Dave Chavarria

Dave Chavarria was an outstanding high school athlete in track, soccer and basketball, where in 1991 he was selected the school’s outstanding Athlete of the Year, it was baseball where
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Heather Wilson-Banks

Heather Wilson-Banks was first capped for Canada's national women's rugby team against Wales at the 1994 World Cup. Wilson-Banks, a back row forward, went on to represent her country 15
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Jay Triano

Jay Triano is arguably the best player to ever don a Simon Fraser University basketball jersey. The Niagara Falls, Ont. native finished his university hoop career on Burnaby Mountain with
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Barry Ihaksi

He went on to win gold medals at the Canadian junior track and field championships and numerous other medals in athletics throughout Canada and the U.S in the early 1960’s.
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Gary Stevens

Gary Stevens excelled in both lacrosse and soccer. The North Burnaby product was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2003, following a career in the senior A
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Bob Hieltjes

Former pro and Basketball B.C. Hall of Famer Bob Hieltjes is the second-best all-time player in Simon Fraser University history. Hieltjes captained the Clan men's team for three seasons and
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Ryan Banks

Ryan Banks represented Canada 36 times on the national men's rugby squad. The former Team Canada captain and No. 8, played for the national team at the men's World Cup
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Audrey Vandervelden

Known as one of Canada's hardest-working players ever, Audrey Vandervelden fashioned a career on the Canadian national women's volleyball team that spanned more than a decade between 1973 and 1984.
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Sports have the unique ability to cut across differences in age, gender, ethnicity, politics and wealth to unify, inspire, entertain and amaze. Our Inductees and our Scholarship winners certainly are living proof of this.

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Recognizing and celebrating those who have brought honour to Burnaby through their incredible achievements in the arenas of sport.

Sports have the unique ability to cut across differences in age, gender, ethnicity, politics and wealth to unify, inspire, entertain and amaze. Our Inductees and our Scholarship winners certainly are living proof of this.

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