Roy Smith roared out of Western Speedway, where he started in 1965 at age 20, to race on the great NASCAR tracks of North America. He enjoyed a tremendous 12-year career driving Super Modified cars throughout the Northwest where he won many major events and championships. He showed his great skills behind the wheel by winning the NASCAR Winston West points championship three years in a row from 1980 to 1982. He placed 22nd in the 1976 and 20th in the 1978 Daytona 500 races and enjoyed a career highlight with his 1982 top ten finish at Daytona. What makes these accomplishments all the more remarkable is that Roy was a true outsider. He was a Canadian driver operating on a budget that was a mere drop in the bucket compared to the famous and high-powered teams of competitors such as Bobby Allison and Ricky Rudd. Smith was named Victoria's male athlete of the year in 1980.

A true "diamond" on the diamond, Bill Prior was one of the greatest baseball players to come out of Victoria. He was a lanky pitcher who could throw a hot ball from the mound began playing senior amateur ball with Pitzer & Nex at the tender age of 16. The Second World War prevented him from turning pro but he threw for the Army team during the war and he wasn't bad with the bat either. He hit a remarkable .773 for the soldier's team in 1944 and in the following year, Bill helped lead the Canadian Army team in Europe to the overseas league title as a star reliever. At age 25 he started a nine-season career of pro ball with the Victoria Athletics and Tyees franchises at Royal Athletic Park from 1946 to 1954. He was a crowd favourite and was instrumental in helping the Tyees win the Western International League pennant in 1952. After his years as a player, Bill continued his love affair with the sport by becoming a yeoman coach and fund-raiser for youth baseball in Victoria.