Forward Jessica Kaczowka was named the CIS player of the year, while Teresa Kleindienst was chosen the nation’s top defensive player. Bruce Langford earned coach of the year honours. Lani Kramer was the team’s assistant coach. The Clan team, including Gaby Salazar, Jen Van De Walle, Kirsten Wood, Maren Corrigal, Jennifer McElgunn, Devon Campbell, Morgan McLaughlin and Dani Langford, averaged 77 points per game, while holding its combined opposition to just 49.3 points during that stretch.

Team members:

Not in order of apprearance in photo
Coach Bruce Langford, and assistant coach Lani Kramer. Players: Teresa Kleindienst , Gaby Salazar, Jen Van De Walle, Kirsten Wood, Maren Corrigal, Jennifer McElgunn, Devon Campbell, Morgan McLaughlin and Dani Langford

Joanne McLeod is considered one of the finest figure skating coaches in the world. As the Director of the Burnaby Figure Skating Centre of Excellence, she has produced a double medalist in senior skater Mira Leung and a host of junior national medalists, the lastest counting six medal and the 2006 Junior Championships.

Sandhu has also won three Grand Prix titles and in 2004 won the overall Frand Prix title. At the 2004 national junior championships, her three skaters captured all three medals in pre-novice men. In 2004, Joanne was named Skate Canada’s National Coach of the Year.

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

He has developed 16 junior champions and five national titleholders and has also put together the top wheelchair tennis program in the Province, with his players winning 15 national titles and 2 international championships.

Known as a coach of coaches, Elderton has mentored over 1,000 coaches and is a pioneer of modern coaching methods in North America.

He has won 4 individual Tennis Canada coaching excellence awards and was a national development coach of the year runner-up in 1999 and 2000.

Tom Mukai, Burnaby’s outstanding citizen in 1997, founded the Burnaby Judo Club at the Bonsor rec centre in 1966. A 7th Dan black belt and Judo Canada life member, Mukai has produced over 60 black belts during his more than 35 years in Burnaby, including numerous junior and senior national and international champions.

He was the first fighter from B.C. to compete at the judo nationals and later was Team B.C.’s first coach in 1970. Mukai mentored the Canadian men’s and women’s team internationally in the 1980’s and ’90s respectively.

Mukai is also a certified international referee and has officiated at the Junior Pan Am Games and the U.S. Open.

James Johnson is a Karate B.C. past president and World Karate Federation executive committee member. Johnson represented Canada in three world championships and was the first person to win four national senior men’s open titles, including one in 1983 when he was 39 years old.

He is a nationally carded referee and played a key role in women’s inclusion in kumite, or sparring. Johnson was inducted into the National Karate Association Hall of Fame in 1991 and was first honoured for his outstanding contribution to the sport in Canada in ’88.

He founded the Burnaby Karate Club at Cameron centre in 1981 and has been its chief instructor since.

Osvaldo ‘Ossie’ Chavarria went from winning the best utility player for the AAA Pacific Coast League Vancouver Mounties to umpiring the bronze-medal match at the Barcelona Olympics. The longtime Burnaby resident played minor ball from 1959 into the ’70s before taking up coaching at the minor and national team levels.

Chavarria started umpiring in 1979 and continued to find time behind the plate in the NAIA league, at national-level championships and in the Summer Games. Chavarria umpired internationally at the Olympics, world championships, Pan Am Games and Intercontinental Cup.

Cliff Ronning tallied over 950 points in 17 seasons in the NHL, including six years with the Vancouver Canucks between 1990 and ’96. A seventh-round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues in ’84, Ronning tallied a total of 335 goals and 620 assists in his pro NHL career, posting a career-high 85 points in his third year with the Canucks.

Ronning garnered over 50 points in 10 separate pro seasons. He also scored over 150 points in two stints with the Canadian national team. A former Western Hockey League MVP and rookie of the year, Ronning was also a key player of the Burnaby Winter Club midget AAA team that won the Air Canada Cup national championships in 1982.

Courtney Knight was the first visually-impaired athlete to win a B.C. high school track and field championship, placing first in the discus in 1995. With less than 10 per cent normal vision, her participation with an able-bodied Team B.C. at the Canadian Junior Championships and Western Canada Games were also firsts.

Knight is currently ranked No. 2 in the world in the pentathlon, discus and shot put and is the Canadian record holder in seven individual Paralympic disciplines. She is a three-time paralympian, winning silver medals in Atlanta and Sydney. Knight was the Sport B.C. disabled athlete of the year in 1995 and was B.C. Athletics’ female disabled athlete from 1996 to 2003.

Glenn Anderson was a fourth-round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers in 1979, who went on to win five Stanley Cups in 11 seasons with Wayne Gretzky in the 1980s. He won a sixth Stanley Cup ring in New York in 1994. In 16 NHL seasons,

Anderson scored a total of 591 goals and 722 assists. Anderson twice tallied over 50 goals in a single season and scored over 100 points on three separate occasions, including a career-high 105 points in 1982. He also played in four all-star games and in four Canada Cup events.

Justin Abdou is one of Simon Fraser University’s most successful wrestlers. Competing at 80 kilograms, Abdou was a nine-time Canadian senior champion and won a gold medal for Canada at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.

He won two silver medals and two bronze at Pan American Games and represented his country at the Sydney Olympics. During his university career, Abdou won four consecutive NAIA national championship titles, only the second SFU wrestler and fifth on the continent to do so. Abdou finished his collegiate career with a record 204 wins, 24 losses and two draws.