Members by Category: Coaches

The backbone of any great team or athlete is their coach or coaches. We’d like to recognize these individuals for bringing positivity, enthusiasm, support, trust, focus, winning goals, knowledge, respect, and patience with athletes in our community.

Dave Lough

Dr. David Lough has sent more junior A lacrosse teams to consecutive Minto Cup finals than any other coach in the history of box lacrosse.

Brit Townsend

Brit Townsend has coached the Simon Fraser University women's team to the last five National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics cross-country and women's indoor track and field national championships.

Stan Stewardson

Stan Stewardson built Simon Fraser University men's basketball into a winning program in two separate decades.

Harry Twist

Burnaby's 'Boxing Mountie', Harry Twist, staged a one-man war against juvenile delinquency over his long career as coach of the South Burnaby Boxing Club.

Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan coached 16 individual Canadian champions in track and field and five more in cross-country, including Olympian Leah Pells and the late Emily Mondor, a former world outdoor 5,000-metre

Joanne McLeod

Joanne McLeod is the Director of the Burnaby Figure Skating Centre of Excellence, she has produced a double medalist in senior skater Mira Leung.

Wayne Elderton

Wayne Elderton is recognized by Tennis Canada as creating the No. 1 tennis program in B. C.

Allison McNeill

Allison McNeill served as the SFU women's basketball coach for 13 seasons, compiling an amazing 363-79 record.

Arif Mawani

Arif Mawani served as provincial coach for Badminton B.C. from 1991 to '94 and was instrumental in the growth of the sport throughout the province.

Ken Taylor

Ken Taylor is probably the most successful high school track and field coach in B.C. history. Taylor won 15 provincial banners, was nine times a runner-up and 3 times placed