Two-time Olympian Carol Turney-Loos, described as the greatest women鈥檚 basketball player to play at the University of Victoria and one of the best ever in sa国际传媒, will be inducted into the UVic Sports Hall of Fame.
All three members of the Class of 2017 鈥� former basketball stars Turney-Loos and Spencer McKay and runner Ulla Hansen 鈥� were internationals.
The Class is the 15th to be enshrined by UVic, with the induction ceremonies part of the Vikes awards banquet April 5 at the Victoria Conference Centre.
鈥淐arol Turney-Loos is without question the best [female] basketball player to play at UVic,鈥� said former Vikes men鈥檚 coach Ken Shields. 鈥淪he made plays other players couldn鈥檛 make.鈥�
Turney-Loos played for sa国际传媒 at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. She helped lead sa国际传媒 to the bronze medal at the 1979 world championships but was denied the chance at the Olympic podium in 1980 because of the boycott of the Moscow Games. (Those athletes who qualified for Moscow are officially listed as Olympians by the COC).
Turney-Loos led the Vikes to the Canadian university championships in both her dazzling seasons at UVic, capping it by being named national MVP in taking the Vikes to the Canadian title in 1980. Including two earlier seasons at UBC, she is the all-time points-per-game scoring leader in sa国际传媒 West history with a 21.1 average and is third all-time in field goals made with 649.
鈥淐arol鈥檚 work ethic was second to none,鈥� said Kathy Shields, who coached Turney-Loos at UVic.
McKay was a versatile, even elegant, player inside. He was a five-time sa国际传媒 West all-star. The only other Vikes player to accomplish that was point-guard and two-time Olympian Eli Pasquale.
McKay was also three-times all-Canadian and is the all-time Vikes men鈥檚 hoops scoring leader with 1,657 career points and is 10th all-time in sa国际传媒 West points-per game scoring.
Internationally, McKay represented sa国际传媒 at the Pan American Games, World University Games and FIBA world championships. He also played in the NBA Summer League.
鈥淪pencer was a good all-round player with good interior fundamentals, plus he could shoot,鈥� said Ken Shields, who coached McKay at UVic.
Hansen was known as Ulla Marquette during a standout high school career at Mount Douglas. She ran with that to five individual CIAU (now U Sports) national medals with UVic and two CIAU relay golds between cross country and track. Hansen鈥檚 international career culminated by representing sa国际传媒 in the hometown 1994 Commonwealth Games. A tenacious competitor with multiple and varied skill sets, she represented sa国际传媒 18 times internationally in track, cross-country and road racing and was a three-time gold-medallist and nine-time medallist at the Canadian track and field championships. Hansen also won the Canadian 10K women鈥檚 road race championship three times.聽
