Margaret and the late Paul Savage were the first swimming and diving coaches at Simon Fraser University. The dictionary describes dynasty as a length of time in which one is in power. Spell it the SFU swimming program.

Our two coaching inductees created a remarkable dynasty, coaching members of their team to international prominence over more than two decades. They guided SFU teams to ten men’s and three women’s NAIA championships and along the way he was named NAIA Coach of the Year five times and was inducted into the NAIA Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in 1982.

She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985. Together they coached or managed 27 Canadian National teams at the Olympics, World championships, Commonwealth and World University Games. More than 30 of their swimmers competed internationally and two of their swimmers, Gary MacDonald and Bruce Robertson, were Olympic medalists.

The diving and swimming pool at SFU is named in their honor. Paul unfortunately passed away in 2002 after a lengthy illness.

The dictionary describes dynasty as a length of time in which one is in power. Spell it the SFU swimming program. Our two coaching inductees, Margaret and the late Paul Savage were the first swimming and diving coaches at Simon Fraser University. And they created a remarkable dynasty, coaching members of their team to international prominence over more than two decades.

They guided SFU teams to ten men’s and three women’s NAIA championships and along the way he was named NAIA Coach of the Year five times and was inducted into the NAIA Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in 1982. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985. Together they coached or managed 27 Canadian National teams at the Olympics, World championships, Commonwealth and World University Games.

More than 30 of their swimmers competed internationally and two of their swimmers, Gary MacDonald and Bruce Robertson, were Olympic medalists. The diving and swimming pool at SFU is named in their honor. Paul unfortunately passed away in 2002 after a lengthy illness.

Stuart Ballantyne, who graduated from both BCIT and Simon Fraser University, is a worldwide major sports and entertainment producer with down-home Burnaby roots.

Ballantyne was the general manager for the Molson Indy, overseeing the design and production of the Vancouver Champ Car series from 1997 to 2003.

In 2006, he put on the record-setting World Junior Hockey Championships in Vancouver, which raised $9 million for amateur hockey programs in Canada.

The following year, he managed the Master Card Memorial Cup junior hockey championships, which drew record crowds and record profits. The national tournament doubled the record net proceeds of past championship tournaments, raising more than $1.8 million. Ballantyne continued his record-setting ways as CEO of the 2009 World Police and Fire Games, the largest and most successful in the event’s 26-year history.

Ballantyne, who was an All-American swimmer and member of Canada’s national team while at SFU, also co-ordinated the Canadian hockey house for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Jean Peters started the club with just seven swimmers and learned on the job, being solely responsible for all coaching, financial management and administrative duties.

When numbers grew, Peters hired coaches and organized volunteers, while earning her level one coaching certificate.

Peters received a Burnaby Chamber of Commerce award for dedication to sport in 1987. Two years later, Caprice sent a masters team to compete internationally in Denmark. By 1990, she had a Caprice team competing in Calgary.