Terrianne Zhang has played at six national badminton tournaments and has been ranked in the Canadian top 10 in doubles and mixed doubles. She is a grad of Burnaby North secondary and is attending the University of California Berkley.

In his high school career Jimmy Zaborniak playing basketball for Burnaby South, Jimmy Zaborniak led the Rebels to three provincial titles.

Once for junior boys in 2019 and then the senior titles in 2020 and 2022. Zaborniak currently plays for the Simon Fraser University men’s basketball team

Since he founded the Burnaby Karate Academy in 1999, Sandeep Gill has become one of the sport’s elite coaches in Canada.

He was a provincial team coach for four years.Gill was named the Karate BC high performance coach of the year in 2008 and 2009, and then national coach of the year in 2010. His students have participated in world junior championships, karate world cups, the Pan American Games, Pan American karate championships and a Commonwealth championship.

His students’ results include a first-place finish by Melissa Chan and a third place by Isabel Chan at the 2016 World Cup in Croatia, Pan-American Games bronzes for Shaun Dhillon (2011, Mexico) and Jusleen Virk (2015, Toronto), who also won the 2008 Pan American junior championships in Santiago, Chile. Ten years later, Michael Plunkett won at the Pan American junior championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were also seventh-place finishes by Andrea Maikawa and Virk at the 2007 world junior championships in Turkey, and a fifth-place by Julia Maclean at the 2017 world juniors in Spain.

According to the academy, under Gill it has more trips to the podium at national championships than any other club in British Columbia with 86 gold medals and more than 150 silver and bronze medals as of 2021. In 2018, for example, it claimed 11 individual titles which was four more than Alberta, the fourth-place province.

The club also attracted many elite-level athletes from around the world to come to Burnaby to train and it gave Gill a lot of satisfaction to see many who had trained there — including Kalvis Kalnins of Latvia, American Tom Scott and Canada’s Daniel Gayzinsky — compete at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.

As a youngster, Mike McLenaghen thrived in the sporting breeding fields of Wesburn and Confederation Park community centres but eventually it was the soccer pitch where his talent bloomed the most. By 1972, McLenaghen was playing for British Columbia’s first-ever BC under-18 team which won the Western Canadian championship and came second in the national championship.

The next year, the midfielder/defender made Canada’s initial national youth team and was chosen captain. McLenaghen moved on to play at Simon Fraser University participating in two NAIA national championships.

He was a first-round selection of the Minnesota Kicks in the 1979 North American Soccer League draft. He went on to play for not only the Kicks, but the NASL’s Toronto Blizzard, Los Angeles Aztecs and Edmonton Drillers as well. McLenaghen also competed in eight international games for Canada.

Erin Gee’s softball prowess was born on the diamonds of Burnaby and thrived there for almost two decades before she took it to the national and international stage. The speedy centrefielder helped the Burnaby Oakeys win three provincial softball titles, a Western Canadian championship and two national crowns, including being named the top batter at the under-16 national championship.

After attending Sperling elementary and Burnaby North secondary, Gee took her skills to Burnaby Mountain where during her collegiate career at Simon Fraser University, Gee and the Clan won four NAIA regional titles and two NAIA national championships. In her final season, 2006, she was named a NAIA all-American and a national championship all-star.

At SFU, she had a career .424 batting average and is the school’s top career leader in runs scored, second in hits and stolen bases and third in batting average and on-base percentage.

She played for Canada at the 2004 World University Softball Championship. She went on to compete for Canada at two Canada Cups, the 2007 US World Cup of Softball and the 2007 PanAm Games in Brazil where Canada won a silver medal. She was also an alternate on Canada’s 2008 Olympic team in Beijing.

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It doesn’t get any better than an entire season with no losses culminating in becoming Canadian university champions. That’s what the 2004-05 version of SFU’s women’s hoop team did to set a school record for most victories in a season. And they did it in dominating fashion.

After not suffering any losses in league play, the women Clan swept the University of Calgary Dinos in a best-of-three series before beating Victoria in the Canada West semifinal and Regina in the final. At the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship, SFU breezed past the Ottawa, Laval and Winnipeg university squads scoring a combined 67 points more than their opponents.

The team’s accomplishments earned head coach Bruce Langford Canada West and CIS coach of the year honours while guard Dani Langford was named a Canada West first-team all-star and the most valuable player of the CIS championship tournament.

Sport BC also named the Burnaby Mountain squad its 2005 Team of the Year.

Players
• Maren Corrigal
• Devon Campbell
• Dani Langford
• Morgan McLaughlin
• Jen McElgunn
• Laura van den Boogaard
• Kelsie Thu
• Courtney Brown
• Lani Gibbons
• Courtney Gerwing
• Julia Wilson
Head coach — Bruce Langford
Assistant coaches — Teresa Gabriele,
Kerry Rokosh, John Prescott

Jim Swelander was a fresh-faced teenager right out of high school when he first began building sports teams forming the Burnaby Dartmen Soccer Club to play in the Hastings East Senior Men’s Soccer League.

The Dartmen went on to win the league championship that first year, 1973, which put them into the B.C. Senior Soccer League where they rose from becoming Division 7 champs in their first year to to eventually Division 1 in 1987.

During their first season at that level they competed in the league cup playdowns beating many Premier Division teams en route to capturing the Imperial Cup crown. That earned them promotion to the top loop. They were the only club in league history to go from Division 7 to the Premier League.

Along the way, Swelander turned the Dartmen into a multi-sport club to include baseball and hockey so they could compete throughout the year. He not only founded those teams but he coached and managed many of the baseball squads since that sport was another big passion of his. Dartmen club teams went on to win numerous championships at various levels and tournaments before leaving the club in 1994. But because of Jim Swelander, the Dartmen carried on.