Alison started golfing in Ottawa at age eight, winning numerous club and provincial awards in Ontario and Quebec over the next 29 years.

Alison moved to Vancouver in 1998 and, because she spent weekends in Victoria, joined the Victoria Golf Club and won her first of four Canadian Senior Women’s Championships in 2002. Alison retired to Victoria in 2004 and, that same year, won the first of four Irish Senior Women’s and second Canadian Championships. 2007 was a banner year as she again captured both Canadian and Irish titles and added the British Senior Ladies’ Championship.

Alison has won two Washington State Senior Women’s Championships, four Pacific Northwest Golf Association Championships as well as twice winning the BC, Alberta and Washington State senior titles. She has been Washington State Champion of Champions and twice Canadian Super Senior Women’s Champion.

Alison has been VGC Club Champion for 17 of the past 20 years. In recognition of her long and illustrious career, Alison was inducted into the Golf Canada Hall of Fame in 2013.

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National champion and three-time Olympian, Ron retired from competitive swimming in 1972 to coach in Vancouver. He came to Victoria in 1984 and in 1988, helped form and was Director of Swimming at Island Swimming until 2002. He then co-founded and is Director of Swimming at Pacific Coast Swimming.

Ron is an NCCP Level 4 and NCI Master Coach. He has been recognized for coaching excellence by Swim BC, both the BC and Canadian Swim Coaches and Teachers Associations, and Swimming/Natation Canada. Ron was National Open Water Coach of the Year (2002-2005), Paralympic Coach at Athens 2004, and Canadian Open Water Head Coach at the 2005 World and 2006 Pan Pacific Championships.

Ron has received two National Domestic Excellence in Coaching awards, two Petro-Canada National Coaching Excellence awards and an International CSCTA Team award. He was BC Coach of the Year (SWAD/Para) for six consecutive years and 2002 BC Coach of the Year (16 and under). Ron has been inducted into the Canadian Swimming, Swim BC and BC Sports Halls of Fame.
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