Members by Category: Builders

Behind the scenes there are a lot of individuals who come together to make sports possible for us all to enjoy and for the athletes have a platform to display their talents and gifts. These builders have contributed in ways that deserve gratitude and recognition.

Larry Hayes

Larry Hayes is an honourary life member with the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association, Hayes has also coached and managed numerous youth hockey teams to provincial and regional titles, including a

Ann Willcocks

Ann Willcocks started up netball in B.C. right here in Burnaby. The Burnaby North High School principal has coached the provincial team from 1983 to the present and has taken

Alex Turkington

Alex Turkington spent close to 40 years working in youth soccer as an official and referee. He is a life member of the B.C. and B.C. junior and juvenile soccer

Merril Gordon

Merril Gordon was the founder of Cliff Avenue United Soccer Club in North Burnaby, which grew into the largest juvenile soccer club in Burnaby. Burnaby's 1967 citizen of the year

Alex Kemp

Alex Kemp is a life member of the provincial and B.C. youth soccer associations. A referee for 25 years, Kemp has been chair of the Vancouver and District junior and

Bill Colbourne

Bill Colbourne was a co-founder of the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association. He has been involved in minor hockey for nearly 50 years as an official, referee-in-chief and coach, from peanut

Mark Stockdale

Mark Stockdale spent 40 years as a director, 17 as President, of Cliff Avenue United soccer organization. One of five individuals who build the soccer exchange between B.C., Washington and

Al Principe

Al Principe is the founding member and President of Swangard Stadium Society, spearheading a campaign that raised more than $3 million for installation of bleachers, are furbished track surface and

Ron Loland

Ron Loland is the founding member and President of Swangard Stadium Society, spearheading a campaign that raised more than $3 million for installation of bleachers, are furbished track surface and

Jim Swelander

Jim Swelander was a fresh-faced teenager right out of high school when he first began building sports teams forming the Burnaby Dartmen Soccer Club to play in the Hastings East