A five sport athlete in baseball, basketball, football, rugby and lacrosse, Chris starred on many junior and senior teams in Victoria before turning his focus to lacrosse in his mid-twenties.

In basketball Chris was a national junior all star and MVP with the Victoria Chinooks and UVic Junior Varsity then went on to star with the Vikings and later the Senior Men's Scorpions and Datatech teams. In football, Chris was an outstanding receiver and kicker with the BC Football Conference Dolphins and was named to the all-time Victoria team. In rugby, Chris first played for Velox then moved on to first division with the James Bay Athletic Association. In baseball, Chris was an infielder with the Victoria Senior Amateur All Stars and spent a year in the Southern Baseball League with Swift Current just prior to being drafted by the Boston Bolts of the National Lacrosse League in 1975.

From that point, Chris launched a storied career in Canada's National Summer Sport. He spent nine years as a player and ten years as Head Coach of the Victoria Shamrocks, winning three Mann Cups along the way, and is a member of the Shamrocks Wall of Fame. In field lacrosse, Chris co-founded the senior A Men's Victoria Seasprays/Royal Waxmen Club that set lacrosse history in Canada by winning 14 Ross Cup national championships. The team also went on to win three North American Brogden Cup Championships and was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2011.

Chris was an outstanding defenseman with Canada's National Field Lacrosse Team through three World Championships, winning two silver medals and a bronze, and was selected to the All World Team at the World Games in Los Angeles in 1984. He then went on to become Head Coach of the National Team through two more World Championships, winning a silver and bronze.

In box lacrosse, Chris was named Head Coach of the National Lacrosse League Calgary Roughnecks expansion team in 2002 and, in three years, won the NLL Championship. After six years in Calgary he went on to become Head Coach of the San Jose Stealth and won another NLL title when the team moved to Washington in 2012, becoming only the second coach in the history of the league to win titles with two different teams.

Chris spent 12 years as a Head Coach in the NLL, was a five-time All Star Game coach and retired this year as the 3rd all time wins leader. He was nominated and won election as an NLL Hall of Fame inductee Class of 2014. Chris was also the Head Coach of Team England and has taken that country through the last two World Box Championships in Halifax and Prague. Along the way, Chris also found time to spearhead a committee to have field lacrosse accepted as the official Demonstration Sport of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, and chaired the Games Volunteer Recruitment and Orientation Committee responsible for the 15,000 Games volunteers.

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