Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Eight individuals, a husband and wife duo, and a team join Dave Sidoo as members of the 51st induction class into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

Below are the members of the 2017 class at a glance: Geroy Simon played 12 seasons for the B.C. Lions, won two Grey Cups in B.C. and is the CFL’s all-time leader in receiving yards with 16,352;

Kamloops’ Mark Recchi is a threetime Stanley Cup champion (Pittsburgh, 1991; Carolina, 2006; Boston, 2011) who had a 22-year NHL career and was a seven-time all-star;

Fernie’s Roland Green is a twotime winner of the cross-country mountain biking world championship (2001-02), the overall World Cup champion in 2001 and four-time national champion;

Michelle Stilwell, a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Parksville-Qualicum and Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation, is the only Paralympic athlete to have won gold medals in two separate summer sport events (wheelchair basketball and athletics). She won six gold medals and a silver medal at four Paralympics — Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Victoria’s Mark Wyatt played for Canada at two Rugby World Cups, captaining the squad in 1991. He played on both the senior national rugby team and the national sevens rugby team, and scored eight penalties vs. Scotland in a 1991 match — a record for an international match that stood for nine years.

Pender Island’s Tim Frick coached the Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team to seven straight gold medals at the worlds or Paralympics between 1992 and 2002 and was head coach for 20 years.

George and Dianne Tidball, who both died in 2014, built Langley’s Thunderbird Show Park into an internationally recognized equestrian competition facility.

Vancouver’s Frank Smith led the UBC Thunderbirds to Vanier Cup titles in 1982 and 1986 and two other appearances in a 21-year head coaching career. He played four seasons in the CFL, was an assistant coach in the CFL, and 47 of his UBC players went on to play in the CFL.

Chang Keun Choi opened the first Taekwon-Do school in Vancouver and Western Canada in 1970 and was one of the dozen original Masters of the martial art in 1956.

The 1969-70 UBC Thunderettes women’s basketball team went 32-6, won the Canadian Senior A women’s championship and five of its members played on Canada’s national women’s team.