Bill Benko
Bill Benko was a gold medal winner in wrestling in the Commonwealth Games Championship at Christchurch, New Zealand. He was the Canadian Greco Roman Wrestling Champion in 1968, 1970, 1971, and 1973. Bill Benko was also a double gold medal winner -- winning both the Canadian Greco Roman and Free Style Wrestling Championships in 1971. He placed fourth in the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Columbia.
Cheryl Bernard
Cheryl lived the dream when she won the 2009 Olympic Curling Trials and skipped her team to a silver medal on "home ice" at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. A force on the ice throughout her curling career, Cheryl won five provincial titles - four Women's (1992, 1996, 2007, 2009) and the Mixed Championship (1993). Other championships include: Canadian Women's Curling Tour (2004), Karuizawa International (2004), tour/bonspiel victories (2005, 2006, 2011), Canada Cup Qualifier (2007), 2010 Olympic silver medalist, Grey Power Players, Capital One Players, Capital One Cup, and the 2011 Continental Cup.
Gordon Bertie
Gordon Bertie was a national and international wrestler. He was named the Outstanding Wrestler in Canada in 1974 and named captain of the 1976 Canadian Wrestling Team for the Olympic Games. He was inducted into Canada's Wrestling Hall of Fame. Gordon won three gold and one silver medal in Canadian University Championships for free-style and one gold and one silver for Greco-Roman. He won medals in competitions at the Pan American Games, Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Romanian Invitational, World Cup, pre-Olympics, and a bronze at the Senior World Championships--the first medal ever won by a Canadian at this event.
Douglas Bovee
Douglas Bovee began his athletic career at the Stoke-Mandeville Games in 1971, winning a gold medal in the slalom event. In 1972 at the Wheelchair Olympics, he once again won a gold medal in the same event. At the 1975 Canadian championships, he won gold medals in javelin, slalom snooker, and table tennis. Douglas Bovee won bronze medals in both javelin and table tennis at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico.
Nancy Brawley
Nancy Robertson Brawley became a member of Canada's National Diving Team in 1967. She competed in both platform and springboard diving in which she won three gold, three silver, and two bronze medals in five years. In both 1968 and 1972, she competed for Canada at the Olympic Games. She won silver at the 1970 Commonwealth Games and won the gold medal in platform in 1971, while competing her second time at the Pan American Games.
Johnny Bright
Johnny Bright, a powerful fullback, gained 10,909 yards in thirteen Canadian Football League seasons with Calgary and Edmonton. He was top rusher in the West four times and a Western All-Star seven times. He was an important part of Eskimo coach “Pop” Ivey’s new twin-fullback formation that allowed himself and Normie Kwong to be on the field at the same time. They led the league in rushing yards for five seasons. Johnny Bright contributed to three straight Edmonton Eskimo Grey Cup wins from 1954 to 1956. He set a Grey Cup record in 1956 when he rushed for 171 yards.
Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke began fencing in 1937 when he joined the University of Alberta Club. Before he graduated, he had won the Intercollegiate Championship in all three fencing weapons -- Foil, Epee, Sabre. The high point of his career was in 1953 when he fenced his way to a three-way tie for the United States National Epee Championship. Other highlights include three Canadian Epee Championships, two British Empire Games competitions, the Labour Day International Fencing gold medal win, and the Golden Epee gold medal win. Edward Brooke was named Canada's 1955 Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year.
James “Buster” Brown
James "Buster" Brown established provincial records in the 100 yard, and 220 yard races between 1925 and 1932. He was the winner of the R.B. Bennett Cup after three consecutive Alberta Championships. He also won the Blatchford Trophy four years in succession. The highlight of his track career was in 1930 when "Buster" was a member of the Canadian Relay Team which represented Canada at the British Empire Games in Hamilton. The team won a gold medal for Canada in the 440 yards relay event and established a new Canadian record for the 440 yard relay.
Keely Brown
Keely Brown, an outstanding ringette goalie, started playing the game while growing up in Ontario. She moved to Alberta in 2003, where she joined the Edmonton WAM! of the National Ringette League. Keely competed in 19 Canadian Ringette Championships and won nine gold and eight silver medals. From 2000 to 2012, she was the goaltender for Team Canada, becoming the longest serving goalkeeper in Ringette Canada's National Team history. Keely goaltended Canada to gold in 2002 and silver in 2000, 2004, 2007, and 2010. She was the MVP of the final game three times and ‘Top Goalie of Tournament’ in 2002 and 2007.
Leo Brown
Leo Brown won five bull riding, two bareback, and one saddle bronc Canadian Professional Rodeo Championships. In 1963 at the National Finals Rodeo, he pitched a no-hitter in the World Series by riding all eight of the rankest bulls in the world to a decisive World Bull Riding Championship. Thirty-one years later, this record still stands. His greatest thrill was winning the 1962 Bareback and the 1973 Bull Riding events at the famous Calgary Stampede. After his retirement from professional rodeo in 1975, Leo Brown continued to compete in Oldtimer’s events and to become a respected rodeo judge.