CANADA BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMER TO JOIN CANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Last Updated: November 05, 2009
TORONTO - Canada's Sports Hall of Fame will be inducting its 2009 class on Tuesday night. Ken Shields, a member of the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame class of 1999, will be inducted in the builders category.
Shields is the most successful coach in the history of Canadian university basketball, most notably winning seven consecutive CIAU championships with the University of Victoria Vikings from 1980-1986. He also spent time coaching at the University of British Columbia and Laurentian University. During his CIAU coaching career, he was named Coach of the Year on four occasions (1975, 1979, 1982 and 1983).
Shields began coaching with the national team program in 1981 and was head coach of the Canadian Junior Men's team for the World Championship in 1983 and 1987. He also coached the World University Games team to a fourth-place finish in 1989. Shields was the head coach of the Senior Men's team from 1988 to 1994, achieving success in the COPABA World Qualification Tournament, and finishing seventh at the World Championships in Toronto in 1994.
Shields did a tremendous job maintaining and building on the high level achieved by his predecessor, Jack Donohue, in international basketball. He brought strong planning, preparation skills and motivation to the job. Numerous players from his university programs went on to play for national teams.
Shields has conducted basketball clinics across the country and all over the world. The Coaching Association of Canada acknowledged him with their highest classification, Master Coach-Basketball, in 1985. He was inducted into the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and given the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame highest honour, the Dr. James Naismith Award of Excellence, in 2007.
In 1998, Shields was bestowed with the highest compliment, the Order of Canada, for his contribution to amateur sport. He was inducted into the Basketball BC Hall of Fame in 2006.
Shields continues to be an advocate for the sport of basketball and Canada's National Team program by sitting on Canada Basketball's Council of Excellence.
For more information on the other members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2009 click here.
Shields is the most successful coach in the history of Canadian university basketball, most notably winning seven consecutive CIAU championships with the University of Victoria Vikings from 1980-1986. He also spent time coaching at the University of British Columbia and Laurentian University. During his CIAU coaching career, he was named Coach of the Year on four occasions (1975, 1979, 1982 and 1983).
Shields began coaching with the national team program in 1981 and was head coach of the Canadian Junior Men's team for the World Championship in 1983 and 1987. He also coached the World University Games team to a fourth-place finish in 1989. Shields was the head coach of the Senior Men's team from 1988 to 1994, achieving success in the COPABA World Qualification Tournament, and finishing seventh at the World Championships in Toronto in 1994.
Shields did a tremendous job maintaining and building on the high level achieved by his predecessor, Jack Donohue, in international basketball. He brought strong planning, preparation skills and motivation to the job. Numerous players from his university programs went on to play for national teams.
Shields has conducted basketball clinics across the country and all over the world. The Coaching Association of Canada acknowledged him with their highest classification, Master Coach-Basketball, in 1985. He was inducted into the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and given the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame highest honour, the Dr. James Naismith Award of Excellence, in 2007.
In 1998, Shields was bestowed with the highest compliment, the Order of Canada, for his contribution to amateur sport. He was inducted into the Basketball BC Hall of Fame in 2006.
Shields continues to be an advocate for the sport of basketball and Canada's National Team program by sitting on Canada Basketball's Council of Excellence.
For more information on the other members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2009 click here.
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