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