Alison Sydor and was a three-time consecutive World Champion (1994 to 1996), a three-time overall World Cup Mountain Bike Champion (1996, 1998 and 1999) and a silver medalist in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Alison Sydor
Violet Pooley Sweeny
Violet Pooley Sweeny was a true golf pioneer, winning multiple golf championships throughout the Pacific Northwest during the early 1900s and travelling overseas to compete in the British Ladies Open. Violet also founded the Canadian Ladies Golf Union, and the BC chapter of the union of which she was president of for 13 years.
Donalda Smith
Donalda Smith worked as a coach, judge and official for Synchronized Swimming for over 33 years. She was instrumental in promoting the inclusion of the sport in the 1984 Olympics.
Bev Smith
Bev Smith has contributed to women’s Basketball, both as an athlete and as a coach. She competed at the 1984 and 1996 Summer Olympics and is arguably the finest female basketball player Canada has ever produced.
Claire Sharpe
Claire Sharpe won six Commonwealth Games medals in Badminton and was the first Canadian female athlete to compete in five Commonwealth Games.
Erminia Russo
Erminia Russo has been a strong competitor for Team Canada in two World Championships, three World Cups and two Pan American Games. Russo competing in beach Volleyball at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Diane Nelson
Diane Nelson is a pioneer and former owner of the Vancouver Griffins female hockey team, attracting some of the finest women’s hockey talent in the world to BC.
Ann Mundigel Meraw
Ann Mundigel Meraw has set seven world marathon Swimming records. At the age of 10, she swam across Howe Sound. In 1958, she swam 88km, the length of Lake Okanagan in a record setting 32 hours and 12 minutes.
Karen Magnussen
Karen Magnussen was Canada’s only medalist in the 1972 Sapporo Olympics, winning a silver medal in Figure Skating. In 1971 and 1972 she was named Canadian Female Athlete of the Year.
Irene MacDonald
Irene MacDonald (d. 2002) advanced the sport of Diving as an athlete, coach, judge and commentator. She won a bronze medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and was the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in diving.
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