Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame

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Hockey

Terry Bangen

Year of Induction: 2020

Terry Bangen has devoted his life to coaching hockey. He has coached on the bench and lead teams such as the Kamloops Blazers, the Vancouver Canucks, the McGill University Redman, the Tri-City Americans, and Hockey Canada. Terry won three WHL Championships with the Kamloops Blazers (1992, 1994, 1995), and three Memorial Cup Championships in the same seasons. For 19 years previous he was Athletic Director for Cariboo College and head coach of the hockey team (1976-79 and 1981-1989) leading his team to five Canadian College Athletic Association finals.

Figure Skating

Kim Scott Kryger

Year of Induction: 2020

Kim Scott Kryger began figure skating at the age of 6 at the Memorial Arena.  She quickly developed and began competing and winning both on a national as well on an international level.  In 1974 Kim placed 5th overall at Nationals and two years later improved at Nationals by placing 4th overall.  By 1976, she began competing internationally at the Grand Prix in St. Gervais, France placing 4th overall, but medalling in the freeskate portion.  Kim skated competitively until 1980 and then transitioned into coaching where she coached for fifteen years in Vancouver.  She continues to coach today at the Valleyview Skating Club.

Curling

Ray Olsen

Year of Induction: 2020

Ray Olsen has been coaching junior curling programs at both McArthur Island and Kamloops Curling Club for many years.  As a long time curler in addition to a curling coach, Olsen was awarded Coach of the Year by Curl B.C. in 2019.  In the 2018-19 season, he came back to coaching playdown curlers and worked with Team Yamada, one of the youngest teams at the 2019 Junior Provincials.  He also coached Team Yamada representing Westsyde to the B.C. High School Championship and coached his daughter’s team, Lori Olsen, at the National Club Championship in New Brunswick in November 2018.

Soccer Official

Michelle Pye

Year of Induction: 2020

Growing up in Kamloops, Michelle played soccer beginning at a young age. At the age of 19, she decided to train to be a referee to earn some extra money while she attended university. From then on her refereeing career continued to develop and grow. In 2006, Michelle was nominated to the National Referee list and received her FIFA Referee Badge in 2007. In 2008, she was appointed to her first ever international game – Canada vs. Brazil at BMO Field in Toronto with 15,000 fans. Since this game, she has had amazing opportunities from both CONCACAF and FIFA. She has been to three FIFA Youth World Cups and been a part of the final games in all three. She was also named as a certified FIFA instructor.

Football

Brad Yamaoka

Year of Induction: 2020

As an outstanding high school player at Kamloops Secondary School and the MVP in their 1990 championship team, Brad Yamaoka went on to play at UBC following his secondary school career and was named a 1993 Western Conference All-Star.  At UBC Yamaoka led the Thunderbirds in rushing in three of his five seasons there and as of 2019 still holds the UBC records for rushing attempts in a season (set in 1992) and career rushing attempts.  He went on to play in the CFL for the BC Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1997 to 2003.  More recently he coached the Kamloops Broncos of the British Columbia Football Conference until retiring in 2018.  In 2019, he was inducted in the BC Football Hall of Fame.

Team

The Eve Skakun Rink

Year of Induction: 2020

The Eve Skakun Rink, winners of three BC Senior Women’s Championships in four years – 1994, 1995, and 1997 also attended National Championships each year.  Skakun, who passed away last year at the age of 90, curled with Liz Karpluk, Una Hazen (deceased), Sandy Allen, Janice Latta, and Kay Belanger during the title years.