The Delta Sports Hall of Fame Committee are pleased to congratulate the 2023 Inductees to the 2023 banquet Oct. 14 at the Coast Tsawwassen Inn.
The selections vary and starting things off with the first pitch is Tsawwassen’s Terry McKaig in the coach category.
McKaig is most well-known for his accomplishments in pioneering, building, developing and coaching the UBC Baseball program
Sport Champion: Youth Athlete Aidan Turner
In track and field Turner excels in sprinting, hurdles, long jump, high jump, shot put, pole vault, discus, javelin and decathlon. At last year’s BC Secondary Schools Track & Field Championships he finished second in decathlon.
Sport Champion: Master Athlete Corrie Guraliuk
Guraliuk was selected to Canada’s Over 60 Master’s Field Hockey team and will compete in the Pan American Continental Cup in December. Guraliuik plays for the Delta Falcons (Saker Falcons Div. 4) and also played for the National Over 55 team competing in the UK and also volunteered as a technical official and technical judge for Field Hockey BC.
Sport Champion Team: Delta Blue Jays U15 National Champions
The Blue Jays were crowned U15 National Champions in 2022 knowing that it has been 24 years since a Delta-based team has had a minor baseball national champion.
In 2022, the Jays won all games at the provincials pulling out a 7-6 win over the Quebec Selects in the final.
Athlete: Cari Rampersad Kuzyk
Kuzyk developed her passion for running at seven when she entered her first 10 km race and competed for Simon Fraser University from 1994 to 98. She is considered to be the greatest distance runner from North Delta.
Builder: Don Berger
Berger moved to Delta in 1973 and started a mini basketball program running over 10 years teaching young people in a variety of sports.
What Berger was known for was his role in the development of community and high school
football in North Delta as the president of BC Minor, Metro Football and ND Football for over 20 years.
Team: 1990 Surdel Devis U16 soccer team
The U16 Surdel Devils Soccer team had an exceptional year in 1990 winning at every level that has the 1990 U16 team recognized for their dominance of girls’ soccer as a U11 squad in 1985.
Athlete: Matt Wilkinson
Wilkinson, nicknamed Tugboat, started pitching at the age of seven in the Ladner Minor
Baseball system. He played in Ladner until the start of the 2014 all-star season. He was one of two B.C. players chosen in the Major League Baseball Draft, going in the 10th round to the Cleveland Guardians.
