Gillian Thomas joins just six other Athlete All Rounders in the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame and is the first female athlete to be so honoured. Over a long and illustrious career, Gill excelled in field hockey, softball, squash, badminton, tennis and basketball.

In 1957 Gill started her outstanding athletic accomplishments when just 12 years old as she won the junior girls singles tennis championship in Victoria . She paired with Ray Aldeguer in 1961 to win the Club Mixed Doubles Championships and in 1962 with her partner, Margaret Foreman, scored second in the Provincial Doubles Championship. At the same time she was on the Victoria High school basketball team that won the 1962 Vancouver Island High school championship, and a year later she played on the senior B championship basketball team.

In badminton, two years, later Gill teamed with Alison Daysmith to win the Canadian Junior badminton Doubles in Montreal. She won the B.C. Junior badminton singles title In 1965, and the next year, playing out of the Victoria Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club, she was the club women's singles champion.

Gill started her senior softball career in Victoria in 1961, playing for the Vicettes under the coaching of Hall of Famer Walter Yeamans. The team won the Senior "B" Provincial championships in 1961 and 1962, and in 1963 they won the Western Regional Canadian Championships. Following as a Senior "A" team in 1965, they won the Provincial Championships and were finalists in the Canadian Championships in Winnipeg. Gill moved to Vancouver in 1966, to play for the Senior "A" team called the Vancouver Texacos. They won the Provincial Championships in 1966 and 1967. In 1969 the Texacos, now called the Eldorados, went to Halifax for the first Canada Summer Games where they won bronze.

In 1970, Gill won the South Hill top batter league award with a .492 batting average. In 1972, the team had a new sponsor, Green and Louie Realtors, and they became the first BC team to win a Canadian Championship. Gill was named the all-star shortstop at the tournament and later was inducted into the Vancouver South Hill Sports Softball Hall of Fame.

From 1963 to 1965 she played for the Victoria Greyhounds Field Hockey Team and was then named to the BC team that won the National tournament held in Vancouver. In 1966, she was recruited for the Canadian team and played as a speedy right wing. Gill is remembered for entering the scoring circle and blasting one of her legendary rocket shots on goal. The team toured Jamaica in 1966 in preparation for the Women's International Tournament, held in West Germany the following year. After the World Championship was over, they played games in Holland, Ireland, and Scotland.

Gill qualified for the BC Women's Squash Team in 1977, 78, and 79, and she won the BC Women's Senior "A" Singles Squash Championship held in Victoria to become the number one ranked player in the Province.

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Joe Bryant was a product of simpler times in Victoria, where, like in many other cities of the 1930s and 40's, athletes would excel on more than one field of play. Although he was blessed with considerable abilities for pitching softball, scoring goals with a lacrosse stick and rippling the twine with a basketball, Joe took his talents behind the bench as a young man in Victoria and continued his winning ways for many more years. Known for keeping opposing batters on their toes, Joe was part of four B.C. softball championships teams as a player, but stacked up more titles as a coach. Barely age 20, he guided the Gorge Pharmacy team to a pair of Island Junior titles in the late 1930s and beginning in 1954, he led the Gorge Hotel men to a then-record six straight B.C. championships. A high-scoring lacrosse player at the Junior, Intermediate and Senior B level, Joe also spent a fair amount of time defending the goal in his younger days. He coached juvenile boys teams during his playing days and guided the Douglas Tire team to the B.C. finals in the mid-1940s. On the basketball court, he teamed with such local luminaries as Porky Andrews and Norm Baker on Senior B teams with colourful names like the Tommy Tucker's Red Hots and Black and White Taxi. He parlayed his years of hardwood experience into a position as assistant manager with the four-time Canadian champion Victoria Dominoes in 1946 and travelled east with the Dominoes that year as they captured their fifth title. Joe coached 10 more years locally, winning the city crown with the Tudor House Labatts.