Andy Lin
Sport – Paralympic skiing
School – Burnaby South

Isabel Chan
Sport – Karate
School – Burnaby North

During Darrell Hall’s nearly 20-year tenure (1987-2006) as head coach, he led the St. Thomas More Collegiate Knights to eleven Grade 8 provincial high school football titles, including an unprecedented nine consecutive crowns between 1998 and 2006.

During one stretch between 1996 and 2006, with coaching cohort Ron Crosato beside him on the sidelines, Hall’s Knights were were almost unbeatable racking up a ridiculous record of 96 wins and three losses.

Although he’s no longer a head coach, it’s hard to keep Hall away from the gridiron. He still helps out with all levels of STM’s prestigious pigskin program that has spawned the likes of CFL players Jon Cornish, Calvin McCarty and Keynan Parker, to name a few.

Three decades of being a pillar in Burnaby’s youth soccer community has earned Doug Ross a spot in the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame. Ross has served at least 25 years as a member of the Burnaby District board of directors and has been recognized as winner of a district Pioneer Award and a BC Soccer Award of Merit.

His prodigious and excellent volunteer work, which also includes several coaching stints and working with the provincial sport body, comes despite not having a son or daughter in the system.
Ross began volunteering and coaching with the former Edmonds soccer Club and then continued with the Wesburn Youth Soccer Club after the two organizations amalgamated.

He has coached or managed teams every year for 30 years, sometime helping out two teams at the same time. He’s organized tournaments, served on countless committees and also taken on the often-thankless task of being the organization’s disciplinarian. Ross has served as a district chair and is currently the boys vice-chair for the district.

Although he had a good playing career growing up in Burnaby it’s his two decades of excellence off the floor and field where Steve Govett has made his mark.

Govett has been the president and general manager for the wildly successful Colorado Mammoth, a team that attracts 17,000 spectators to its games, since 2002. Since then the Mammoth have compiled a 104-90 win-loss record heading into the 2016 season now underway.

He held the same positions with the Washington Power the three previous seasons. The current Mammoth roster has three former Burnaby Lakers, and has frequently employed players and coaches with Burnaby connections.
In October 2012, Govett was named vice-president of new business development for Kroenke Sports seeking out new ventures for the company’s portfolio.

Govett also found the time to be the team coordinator and general manager for Team Canada when it won the 2014 FIL World Field Lacrosse championships. In the final, Canada beat the United States for only the third time since 1974.

A love affair between Vancouver Canucks fans and Harold Snepsts began to blossom in the 1970s that resulted in the fan favourite being inducted into the NHL club’s Ring of Honour in 2011. 

The burly defenceman, who resided in Burnaby for 40 years, may not have been the slickest of players, but he got the job done in his own end. The six-foot-three blueliner played 781 of his 1,033 NHL games over 12 seasons for the Canucks scoring 35 goals and 168 assists while collecting 1,446 minutes in penalties. Fans loved his gangly, enthusiastic style of play.

The Edmonton Oil Kings junior product also played for the Minnesota North Stars, Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues notching a total of 38 goals, 233 points and 2,009 penalty minutes in his NHL career which ran from 1974 to 1991.

Snepsts went on to serve as an NHL assistant coach and a minor league head coach before turning to scouting, first of all for five seasons with the NHL’s Central Scouting Service and then with the Canucks. He scouted for Vancouver for 12 years before retiring in 2017.

The former president of the B.C. Mainland Cricket League told the Vancouver Province, “He’s like a child prodigy pianist. He knows when he gets to the concert hall he won’t screw up.”

By 1990, Seebaran was being named a provincial Premier’s Athletic Award winner.

It was the start of an illustrious national career for the accurate left-handed bowler – a former Buckingham elementary student and Simon Fraser University graduate – than didn’t end until 2003. On top of his national exploits, Seebaran played professionally for several seasons in Australia.

Seebaran’s talent and love of the game were part of his DNA. His father Ben, already a Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame honoured member, was a Trinidadian immigrant immersed in the Lower Mainland cricket scene both as a player and an administrator for decades. Barry has also followed in his father’s footsteps as an educator, teaching both in Burnaby and Australia.

The Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame member grew up in Burnaby and was a goaltending star for the Burnaby Cablevision Junior A team for three seasons.

He was a first-team all-star in 1969 and 1970. Evans was named the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League’s top goaltender in 1969. He went one better the next season winning the league’s MVP award. Both years Cablevision finished as runners-up in the Minto Cup.

Evans then went on to play for the Senior A Vancouver Burrards for 10 seasons. He was named the Western Lacrosse Association’s top goaltender in 1973 and WLA playoff MVP in ’73 and again in 1977 when the Burrards went on to win the Mann Cup. The Burrards retired his No. 29 jersey in 1981 and Evans was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1995.

Along the way, Evans played professionally for the Montréal Québécois of the National Lacrosse League in 1975. He had the NLL’s top save percentage as the team made it all the way to the league final.

Evans also represented Canada at the 1974 world field lacrosse championships.

Dave went on to coach at many levels including stints with Cablevision when they won Minto Cups in 1977, ’78 and ’79. He was a goaltending consultant for the Burnaby Jr. Lakers when they won Minto Cups in 2000, 2004 and 2005. He also coached the senior Lakers in 2007 before coaching in the NLL with the Washington/Vancouver Stealth.