To name Tom McKeachie an all-rounder would be a huge understatement. Tom almost did it all in his lengthy and stellar career from the 1940's to the 1980's. Tom was a well-respected rugby, football, basketball and lacrosse player in the 1940's on fields and in gyms all over Victoria and British Columbia. His powerful kicking ability made him a valuable rugby fullback with the James Bay Athletic Association and the Vancouver Island Crimson Tide. He turned to cricket in the 1950's and exchanged his many sporting jerseys for a whistle. He also officiated in basketball and lacrosse. It was in his final sport that Tom McKeachie turned his hand and mind to and left his greatest legacy. From the 1960's to 1985, Tom was a keen and important lawn bowler, administrator and builder on the city, provincial and national scene. His pinnacle as a player came in 1973 when he won the Walt Disney Masters in Hollywood, California. Tom was president of the Victoria Lawn Bowling Club, the B.C. Lawn Bowling Association and vice-president of the Canadian Lawn Bowling Council.

Bo Mearns was the greatest equestrian rider ever to come out of Greater Victoria and was the Canadian equestrian queen of the 1970s. In her time, she was one of Canada s top-three equestrian riders and was a member of the Canadian national equestrian team a number of times. Through her top seasons, between 1973 and 1980, she set a seven-foot-two-inch Canadian jumping record and scored sixteen major event wins across Canada. The only disappointment during that decade of success was a near miss in making the Canadian team for the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. The Oak Bay High graduate rebounded to make the national team in 1977 for its tour of Europe and was on six International Nations Cup Teams. Most of Bo s success came atop Flying Nun, an unlikely future championship horse she bought at the racetrack for a mere $400 in 1968. By the time of its death in 1981, Flying Nun had amassed career winnings of $110,000. Flying Nun, the horse Bo bought on an impulse, was one of the best show-jumping horses of its time and catapulted Mearns to international stardom in equestrian sport.