The Updated List as at April 19th., 2012
*Two additions to the list of nominees are:
Marg O'Reilly and John O'Shea.
Marg was a long time member of the Board of Directors
for the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Association.
John is a recent president of Boxing Canada and
has been active in Boxing BC events in the past.
ways there are connections. For Allan Bayne of Prince George and
Donnie Orr of Victoria, one could say the 1994 Commonwealth Games
in Victoria was the connecting factor. Allan Bayne was one of the
Canadan boxers in the Games, but part of the build-up of the Games
was a revival of amateur boxing in Victoria that would see Donnie Orr
become the big star that would fight his way onto the 2000 Canadian
boxing Olympic team in 2000.
For the Nanaimo Boxing Club and the Spruce Capital Warriors
boxing club of Prince George one individual that was connected to
to both clubs is current boxing coach Bob Pegues. He was one of
the original members of the Nanimo club that began in 1971 and
would coach at the Spruce Capital club before starting his own
club to develop Canadian champion Kenny Lally and boxer
Jag Seehra. Other nominees connected to the Spruce Capital
club are. Laurie Mann, Allan Bayne and Wayne Sponagle.
Wayne is the present coach of the boxing club which had
Harold Mann as one of the original coaches for many years.
For Harry Twist and Bert Lowes, they both were former coaches
of inductees Freddy Fuller and Frank Scott. Both Freddy and Frank
were members of Harry's South Burnaby boxing club when they were
just junior boxers, and in September 1967 they both joined the
Vancouver Firefighters Boxing Club that was coached by Bert Lowes
and Pat West. Bert also coached Roger Adolph at one time in the Sixties.
George Shiels and Charles John were coaches of the Campbell River
Eagles Boxing Club which was inducted in 2011 in the club category.Tony Duffy, nominated for the Junior and Youth Category was also
on the BC junior boxing team that competed in the 1984 Junior
Nationals which has been nominated in the even category, Nominees
George Armson and Bert Lowes were also connected to the 1984
Junior Nationals and Senior Olympic box-offs. George was the
President of the host association Boxing BC and Bert was
one of the ring officials. Bert also served as a volunteer at
the 1994 Commonwealth Games where boxer Allan Bayne
competed.
