Born in North Vancouver, Susan grew up on Saltspring Island and moved to Victoria where she graduated from Victoria High School. At age 12, Susan started playing tennis at the Victoria Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club, and was coached by her father Jack Butt. It wasn’t long before she made her mark on the tennis scene at age 17 by winning the Victoria City Singles and Doubles Championships (the youngest women ever to win the titles), Vancouver Island Open Singles and Doubles Championships, BC Open Junior Singles and BC Closed Junior Women’s Championship in 1955. That year she also received the Fred Fatlin Trophy for outstanding ability and sportsmanship in BC tennis competition. Susan finished her junior career by winning the Western Canadian Singles crown and was Canadian Junior Champion.

Susan was a six-time BC Open Singles Champion (1958-63), and never lost a BC Hardcourt Women’s Open Championship, winning the Stanley Park tournament eight times. She ranked as Canada’s top women’s singles player three times (1960, 1961, 1967), and was second in 1958. She also won a Canadian National Championship in Doubles. A four-time member of Canada’s Federation Cup team (1967, 1970-72), Susan served as Team Captain four times.

Susan played in tennis tournaments on four continents and won championships all over North America and Europe. Her list of achievements include: the Federation Cup, French Open, US Open, Australian Open, South African Open, and US Nationals. Susan competed at Wimbledon in 1961, reaching the third round in Singles play before falling to the tournament’s top seed on Centre Court. She also competed at Wimbledon in 1967.

During the height of her tennis career, Susan managed to organize her life to also graduate from the University of British Columbia before earning a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Chicago in 1967. While competing, Susan wrote a series a columns for the Victoria Times newspaper and following her career, lectured and wrote numerous books on the psychology of sport.

Susan was an active tennis player from the late 1950s through the early 1970s and was inducted into the Canada Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000, Pacific North West Hall of Fame in 2007, and this year will also be inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame. Her mentors include Gordon Hartley, Jack Milledge, Jim Macken and Jim Skelion.

Susan is currently living in Victoria and lives by her motto which she learned during her years at Norfolk House School for Girls – “Do thy best and rejoice with those that do better”.

From his first step onto the pitch at the Gorge Soccer Club at four years old in 1971, a field later endowed with his family name, Jamie has exemplified the physical versatility of the consummate soccer player. He honed his craftsmanship on the soccer pitch by blending the skills of lacrosse, baseball, field hockey and ice hockey from his childhood and early teen years. As a youth at Gorge FC Soccer Club, Jamie was awarded the Gorge Kulia (MVP) Award six times.

As a member of the Spectrum High School team in 1985, he helped the team claim the Colonist Cup and was named to the Tournament All-Star team for the BC High School Provincials. In his first year playing top flight adult soccer in the Vancouver Island Soccer League (VISL), Jamie was recognized with the Ivy Lucas Lands End Award as Rookie of the Year along with the Mogens Brodsgaard (McGavin Cup) MVP Award. A stalwart fixture of the Gorge Division One Men’s Soccer team, he helped lead the team to two Provincial Senior Men’s Soccer Championships in 2001 and 2002.

At 16 years old, Jamie also gravitated to coaching and immediately made a contribution to the development and excellence of club players. In 2005, he began his long tenure as the Gorge FC Soccer Club Technical Director, overseeing the community soccer program for players 3 - 18 years old. In 2014 and 2022, he was awarded the Lower Island Soccer Association Coach of the Year Award; coaching a Victoria United Girls U14 Metro team to a Provincial title - a first for a lower island girl’s Tier One team.

Over the years, Jamie suffered multiple concussions resulting in brain damage, which led to his career as a para soccer player. While still an active member of the Gorge Over 35s team, Jamie made his debut with Canada Soccer’s Para Soccer National Team Program under coach Drew Ferguson. In Jamie’s first competition in 2010 at Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was Canada’s top goal scorer with four goals. He scored two goals versus Venezuela in a 6-0 win and later versus Mexico, he scored another two goals in a 5-4 win helping the team qualify for the 2011 World Championships in Drenthe, Netherlands. Playing as a central midfielder, Jamie continued his scoring streak with a hat-trick in a 6-0 win versus Finland. Canada went on to finish the tournament with a memorable 3-2 comeback win against Spain with Jamie scoring the equalizer and eventual winner.

For his play and invaluable mentorship on and off the soccer pitch, Jamie was named Canadian Soccer Association Para Player of the Year in 2017

In 2019, Jamie retired as one of the all-time greatest Canadian para players, having represented Canada in tournaments worldwide and won the respect of all against whom he played. Over his nine years with the Para Soccer National Team, he scored 25 goals and accumulated 35 caps for Canada at three World Championships, two America’s Championships, two World Cup Qualifiers, the Para Pan Am Games and the International Cup.