Norm Baker, as a sixteen year old, led the Victoria Dominoes basketball team to a victory over the Harlem Globetrotters. Their originator, the legendary Abe Saperstein, called Norm "one of the greatest natural players I have ever seen." In 1950 he was named Canada's basketball player of the half-century and later that year he was the only non-US player selected to the Stars of the World team (the best pros and college players of the day) that toured Europe. Norm played four years as a pro in the old American Basketball Association including a contract with the Boston Whirly Birds, the forerunners of the Boston Celtics. His career included playing for the New Westminster 1947 Mann Cup national lacrosse team, four-time Canadian national champion Victoria Dominoes basketball team, and the national Air Force champion Pat Bay Gremlins. He is a member of the Canadian and BC Sports Halls of Fame.

Art Chapman, along with his brother "Chuck" and Doug Peden, led the Canadian basketball team to a silver medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Art was a brilliant playmaker on the court and as an unselfish center he set up his teammates for hoops time and again on the championship Victoria Blue Ribbon and Domino basketball teams. The team won no fewer than five Canadian and seven BC senior championships from 1933 to 1946. Like many athletes of his time, the economics of the Depression prevented him from leaving Victoria to pursue an athletic career elsewhere.