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Jack Kenyon

Basketball Builder - Inducted 1990

Jack Kenyon was involved as a basketball player, coach, and builder for over thirty years. During twenty-seven years of Alberta Colleges' Athletic Conference play, his teams won seven championships and compiled an impressive record of 198 wins and 26 losses. Twenty-two basketball players who were coached by him went on to play for the Canadian National Team; ten played semi-pro in Europe, and one played in the National Basketball Association League. Jack Kenyon spent several years working with Junior National Teams and in 1988 served as the assistant coach of the Calgary 88s in the World Basketball League.

After Induction

Awards

2007 - University of Saskatchewan“100 Most Influential Alumni” Award

2006 - Saskatchewan Centennial Award Sport & Recreation

2005 - Alberta Centennial Salute for Sport and Recreation Award

2003 - Saskatoon Hall of Fame, U of S Huskies Athletics Team, Coach

2002 - Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, Multi-Sport Builder

2002 - Queens Jubilee Medal

2001 - Calgary Booster Club, Athletic Leader

1995 - Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, Athlete

1993 - Great Canadian Award

1992 - University of Saskatchewan, Athletic Wall of Fame

1992 - Commemorative Medal, 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada

1990 - International Toastmasters “Communication & Leadership” Award

1988 - YWCA “Woman of Distinction” Award, Sport

1980 - Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, Athlete

1979 - Chatelaine Magazine “First Woman of the Year”

1978 - Order of Canada

1978 - Canada’s “Female Athlete of the Year”

1975 - Canada’s “Female Athlete of the Year”

Other Accomplishments

2010-2011          - CEO, KidSport Canada

2008-2011          - Member, Premiere’s Council on Arts & Culture

2008-2010          - Member, Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation, Heart Truth Leadership Council 2006-                            - Member, Petro-Canada’s FACE Committee

2006-2011          - Director, KidSport Canada

2005-2011          - Chair, KidSport Alberta

2001-2005          - Director, KidSport Alberta

1997-2009          - Director, Canadian Olympic Committee

1999-2005          - Member, Canadian Olympic Committee Games Review Committee

1997-2001          - Executive Member & Director, Canadian Olympic Association

1995-1997          - Vice President, Canadian Olympic Association

1997-2005          - Chair, Petro-Canada Olympic Torch Scholarship Fund

1997-2001          - Chair, Olympic Legacy Coaching Fund

2000                   - Chef de Mission 2000 Canadian Olympic Team ( Sydney, Australia)

1992-2000          - Honorary Co-Chair, University of Saskatchewan’s Athletic Endowment Fund   

1986-1999          - Director, Coaching Association of Canada

1993-1995          - Chair, Fair Play Canada

1995-1999          - Director, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport

1993-1995          - Director, Calgary Olympic Development Association

1993-1995          - Chair, Olympic Hall of Fame

1986-1994          - Director, Commission for Fair Play

Athletic Career Highlights

  • Retired from active competition in 1984.

  • 17 years on Canada’s National Track & Field Team (1967-84)  

  • Winner of over 70 Canadian Championship titles – Pentathlon, high jump, long jump, shot put, hurdles, sprint relays

  • Canadian, Commonwealth & Pan American Games Champion & Record Holder

  • Olympic Games – 1972 (10th), 1976 (6th) and 1980 (boycott)

  • “Alternate Olympics” – Gold medal (1980)

  • Commonwealth Games: 1970, 1974 & 1978 (Gold medal)

  • Pan American Games  - 1975 (Gold) & 1979 (Gold medal)

  • 1981 World Cup Team

  • 1975 & 1978 ranked #1 in the world in the pentathlon event

  • World University Games, Moscow, USSR – Bronze medal (1973)

    Jack Kenyon Memorial Scholarship – Mount Royal

    Jack Kenyon had two loves in his life: basketball and mathematics; often combining the two in on-court strategy and in-class teaching.

    He began his coaching career in 1963, taking Mount Royal to seven Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference titles. A former coach of Canada’s Junior Basketball Team (1975-79), Jack was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

    He also published several papers on making mathematics more accessible to students.

  • After a 33-year teaching career, Jack Kenyon retired in the spring of 1994. He died tragically in September of that year.