Basketball BC Executive Director, Lawrie Johns, on behalf of President Diana Chan and the Basketball BC Hall of Fame Committee, is pleased to announce the 2014 Basketball BC Hall of Fame inductees.
“This is our 12th year for our Hall of Fame inductions and again it is a pleasure to announce the inductees who represent the best of the best in our sport. This year’s inductees come in the Builder, Coach, Official, Athlete and Team categories and represent a number of decades of contribution to our sport.
Athlete category
Spencer McKay. Spencer’s tremendous career began after high school with the University of Victoria where he was a Canada West all-star 5 consecutive years. In 3 of those years he was All Canadian. He is the U Vic all time leading scorer averaging 18’4 p/g and he played with the Canadian National team from 1985-95 representing our country in a variety of international events. Spencer finished his playing career playing for 16 years professionally in Europe, Mexico and the Far East. Spencer continues his basketball career as a coach presently the assistant coach at UBC.
McKay joins the following – as 2014 inductees:
The 1954/55 Alberni Athletics developed out of the small Vancouver Island mill team in the late 1940’s to become a dynasty in Canadian Senior Men’s basketball.
The 1954/55 Vancouver Eilers dominated senior women’s basketball in the ‘40’s and 50’s.
Larry Street has made an impact in basketball throughout the province and particularly on Vancouver Island.
Bob Burtwell played high school basketball at King George and continued his athletic career as a baseball catcher at the University of Washington.
In the Official’s category Basketball BC will be inducting Michael (Mike) Thomson.
In the coach category Basketball BC is proud to induct Bruce Enns.