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Bruce O'Neil

Co-coaches for Cochrane’s Cobras High School Football team since 1991, O’Neil and McNab have created an outstanding record winning 14 of 16 Provincial Championships. They have the longest winning streak in Alberta ASAA high school football with 40 wins (2014-18) and an overall record of 290 wins to 31 losses.

Robbie McNab

Daryl Slade

For over forty years Daryl has served as a statistician for hockey, baseball, and football in Alberta. He was a prominent reporter for the Calgary Herald covering a range of sports from hockey and football to canoeing and motorsports. He is a successful author of three books on the history of Calgary Stampeders, and one on the life and accomplishments of football legend Ezzrett ‘Sugarfoot’ Anderson.

ACAC Founding Members

Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) has enjoyed a rich and colorful history spanning 58 years of contributions to the Alberta and National sport landscape. The first executive officers of the Western Intercollege Conference were Dr. Gary Bowie, Mr. Ben Brooks, Mr. Al Buttle and Mr. Garry Meadus. Dr. Gary Bowie, Chairman of the College Conference is quoted as saying the purpose is “To encourage student participating in various athletic and cultural events by means of competition among the various junior colleges and institutions of technology.” That purpose 58 years later still holds true for the ACAC.

Guy Weadick

In 1912, Guy Weadick & Flores LaDue founded the Calgary Stampede, Canada’s first and most significant celebrations of western sport and heritage through rodeo & western competition. When Guy & Flores arrived in Calgary with the idea of hosting a “Frontier Day Celebration and Cowboy Contest” which would honor the history of the West through the sport of rodeo. In 1923 Weadick created the sport of chuckwagon racing. The Calgary Stampede remains one of the premier stops on the North America rodeo circuit.

Flores LaDue Weadick

Jessica Sloan

Jessica was born in Calgary in 1982 without a left hand. She competed at the IPC world championships in Christchurch NZ in 1998 winning six gold medals, three of them setting world records. In the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Australia Sloan won six gold medals, all of them breaking world record times.

Andrew Buckley

Andrew is a Calgary-born football legend. Moving from a star high school quarterback to a University of Calgary Dinos champion to a decorated Calgary Stampeder. Buckley won 3 Canada West Championships with the Dinos and set numerous club records. Drafted 62nd overall to the Calgary Stampeders in 2015, Andrew played in both the 2016 and 2017 Grey Cups with the team before announcing his retirement from professional football in 2018.

Mike Johnson

Born and raised in the Edmonton region, Mike has been involved with baseball for the majority of his life. He played his amateur baseball in Sherwood Park, and provincially with Team Alberta before he was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1993. His professional career spanned 17 years and included 5 seasons in the MLB with the Baltimore Orioles and the Montreal Expos, and stops overseas in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. He was a prominent member of Team Canada in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008, and won a Pan Am gold medal in 2011. Upon retirement, he has given back coaching locally in the Edmonton area, Team Alberta and with the Canadian Junior National Team.

Helen Upperton

Helen is a dedicated and influential force in the sport of bobsleigh in Canada helping elevate the women’s program to the status of international powerhouse. Over the course of her 11-year career as a bobsleigh pilot, her team shattered numerous international start and track records en route to winning over 25 World Cup medals including Canada’s first ever World Cup gold in Women’s Bobsleigh in St. Moritz, Switzerland. After a close 4th place finish at the 2006 Olympics, Helen piloted her team to an Olympic silver medal in Vancouver 2010. She retired from competition following the 2012 season but continues to be involved as a coach, a mentor, and an award-winning broadcaster.