In the 1982 tournament held in Victoria, the Travellers won all eight of their round-robin games before beating a team from  recorded eight wins and no losses in round robin play and then defeated the Quebec champions from Sainte Foy 3-1 in the final. 

To reach the ACC, the Travellers won the provincial title with 79 wins and just three losses and three ties. The roster included Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame honoured member Cliff Ronning (2005) who went on to an extremely productive 17-season NHL career including playing for the Vancouver Canucks.

Mike Jones coached wrestling at Simon Fraser University from 1975 until his retirement in 2017 developing 18 Olympians and helping wrestlers collect 13 Olympic and world championship medals including Olympic gold by Daniel Igali (2000) and Carol Huynh (2008).

His SFU teams and the Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club he founded in 1976 have won a total of 13 national championships on both sides of the border in the NAIA (USA) and Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Jones has the record for most individual NAIA wrestling champions with 40. He’s twice been named NAIA coach of the year and three times by CIS.

In 1984 in Los Angeles, he coached Canada’s Olympic wrestling to two medals (Bob Molle silver, Chris Rinke bronze) and another at the 1992 Games in Barcelona (Jeff Thue, silver). 

Has coached Burnaby Wrestling Club to 17 consecutive national club titles.

Jones was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2011, the Canadian Amateur Hall of Fame (1992) and the USA Wrestling Hall of Fame (2005).

This is a link to the BC Sports Hall of Fame’s bio on Mike Jones written by the hall’s curator Jason Beck.

Mark Stockdale spent 40 years as a director and 17 (1970 to 1987) as president of the Cliff Avenue United soccer organization. He helped build Cliff Avenue from one boys church team into one of the leading youth soccer associations in the province. Under his watch Cliff Avenue teams won many provincial title and two national club championships.

Stockdale, a native of Kent, England who moved to BC in 1954, served on the BC Youth Soccer Board from 1970 to 1978, the last four as vice-president. He’s one of five individuals who built the soccer exchange between B.C., Washington and Oregon into the largest such athletic venture in the world.

Stockdale is a founding member of four soccer and field hockey leagues. He coached at all levels and took Cliff Avenue to three Division One titles at the prestigious Sun Soccer Tournament of Champions. Stockdale is a life member of the B.C. and Burnaby Juvenile Soccer Associations.

He passed away in 1996. He was 72.

Boxing was Al Principe’s game. He promoted professional and amateur boxing cards in the Lower Mainland for 70 years. He was responsible for bringing in a host of world champions to Vancouver and bringing closed circuit TV fights to the area.

Principe helped the sport grow by establishing the Astoria Boxing Club and the BC Amateur Boxing Association which honoured him for his outstanding achievement in 1976.

Ron Lalond was a founding member and President of Swangard Stadium Society, spearheading a campaign that raised more than $3 million for installation of bleachers, a refurbished track surface and other improvements.

Lalond was president and general manager of the Wesburn Soccer Club for 22 years and a founding director of the professional Vancouver 86ers soccer club. He was also a founding director of the Kensington Soccer Society and acted as its president for many years. The City of Burnaby named him its Sports Builder of the Year in 1992.

The Burnaby Minor Hockey product who grew up in the Cariboo Heights neighborhood, had a 15-year National Hockey League career that included winning a Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens in 1986.

During his minor hockey days, Walter led his Burnaby peewee team to the provincial finals and through to the prestigious Quebec Peewee Tournament.

Walter played major junior for the Kamloops Chiefs, Seattle Breakers and Calgary Wranglers accumulating 138 goals and 321 points in 218 regular season games.

Walter was drafted second overall in 1978 by the NHL’s Washington Capitals. In his first NHL season, he finished second in rookie of the year voting, When he was just 21, the Caps named him team captain in his second pro season, which at the time made him the youngest player in the history of the NHL to hold that position.

He was traded to Montreal in 1982 where he played nine seasons for the Habs including not only the 1986 championship but also the 1989 Stanley Cup final against the Calgary Flames.

Walter signed as a free agent with the Vancouver Canucks in 1992 playing 92 games over two seasons.

His final NHL totals were 1,003 regular season games played, 264 goals, 381 assists and 645 points. In 113 playoff games he scored 16 goals and 51 points. 

Walter’s leadership was so respected he served as vice president of the NHLPlayers Associaton during his career.

After his playing days were over Walter went into broadcasting but then served was an assistant coach for the Canucks (2008 to 2010) and president of the Abbotsford Heat of the AHL (2011 to 2014).

Walter has also become a well-respected motivational speaker and an author of the Simply the Best book series.

David Steen, Sr. was the first Canadian to shot put over 60 feet. He captured three Commonwealth Games medals, gold in 1966 and 1970 and bronze in 1962. Steen was a member of Canada’s national track and field team for eight years moving the national shot put record from 52 feet one inch to 63 feet and a 1/4 inch.

He was also a member of the powerful University of Oregon track team finishing second in the 1963 NCAA championships. Steen was ranked seventh in world that year with a throw of 61 feet 11 l/4 inches. He also held Canadian age class records during his high school days at Burnaby South Senior Secondary.

Pier Morten is a two-time B.C. Disabled Athlete of the Year (1988 and 2001) and was the unbeaten 15-time Canadian blind wrestling champion. In 1988, Morten won the blind world wrestling championship, the first European Judo championship and the Canadian powerlifting championship.

He has won wrestling silver in three Paralympics and four bronze medals in judo at four other Paralympics. In 1992 became the world’s first totally blind and deaf athlete to obtain a black belt in judo.

Morten was the first deaf-blind athlete to receive a black belt in judo. He was awarded Sport BC’s Harry Jerome Comeback Award in 1998 and was named the International Blind Sports Federation’s athlete of the year in in 2002. He was inducted into Judo Canada’s Hall of Fame in 2012.

Lise Léveillé won two gold medals in gymnastics at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. She captured one of the golds in the individual beam event and then a second in the team event. A year earlier Léveillé won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur..

Léveillé shared a ninth-place team finish at the 2000 Olympics and was the beam champion, runner-up in the all-round and floor exercises and bronze medalist on the vault and uneven bars at the 1999 Canadian championships held in Burnaby. A student at Stanford University, she was a two-time Pac10 conference champion on beam and All-American on beam.

After her gymnastics career Léveillé went on to become a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon,

Daniel Igali captured the wrestling gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney in his weight class and was Canada’s first World freestyle champion in 1999.

Made the sweep complete by winning the gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He is a five-time Canadian champion. Wrestling for Burnaby’s Simon Fraser University, Igali won every one of his 116 matches over three years capturing NAIA titles from 1996 to 1998.