Team
Kamloops International Baseball Tournament – Team of Volunteers
Year of Induction: 2023
Since 1973, the Kamloops International Baseball Tournament (KIBT) Team of Volunteers have worked tirelessly to keep the mid-summer classic. For forty-nine years, a team of fourteen people, including tournament co-founders Lynn Bylund, Art Worth, and Gary Cameron who envisioned hosting the best semi-professional baseball tournament. Other influential individuals include Pat Swaine, Donna Hagen, Fran Pope, John Braun and Dean Padar, who worked on the tournament until his passing in June of 2019. Current members of the tournament executive are Wayne and Jan Harper, Tom Blair, Linda Coutts and Ron Masson. The fourteen member team is rounded out by Verna Desjardins and Diane Wells who made significant impacts on the KIBT executive for several years. Baseball fans from Kamloops, all of British Columbia, Alberta and the Pacific Northwest have made their way to Canada’s Tournament Capital for this event.