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EAGLES
ATHLETICS
HISTORY

Soaring now from humble beginnings

1979-80

1980-83

1983-84

1984-85

1985-86

1991-92

1993-94

1996-97

• The King’s College (as it
was then known) opens;
women’s and men’s
ice hockey teams, the
Trojans, are operational.

• Formal tournament
hockey continues for
the men in the local
Christian Hockey League
(composed of Christian
Reformed Church
church teams). Martin
Halvorson registers
the men’s basketball
team in the Edmonton
Basketball Association,
and organizes the “King’s
College Invitational”
basketball tournament,
with eight teams
attending. The women’s
basketball team plays
exhibition games against
Edmonton Christian High
School and Concordia.
The men’s volleyball
team, coached by Eric
Chang, plays exhibition
games against Edmonton
Christian High School
and Concordia.

• Dr. Robert Day arrives
at the college as the
Registrar/Director of
Student Affairs and
founds a formal athletics
program focused around
men’s ice hockey and
men’s basketball teams
(the College boasts
108 students).

• Women’s ice hockey
and women’s basketball
are added to the
athletics program.

• Women’s and men’s
volleyball are added
to the athletics program
and participate in
the Edmonton
Volleyball Association.

• Men’s indoor soccer
introduced at the
college under founding
faculty member Dr. Glen
VanBrummelen. The
team participates in the
indoor Edmonton District
Soccer Association.

• The King’s College
becomes The King’s
University College and
moves to its current site
and opens a gymnasium.

• The King’s University
College participates in
the ACAC for the first time
in women’s and men’s
basketball after two years
of exhibition play.

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• Ice hockey teams are
discontinued to facilitate
the development of
women’s and men’s
basketball and volleyball
to ACAC status.
• The University College
applies for membership
in the Alberta Colleges
Athletic Conference
(ACAC) of the Canadian
Colleges Athletic
Association ( CCAA).

• The men’s team places
third in the ACAC Northern
Division and then captures
the ACAC bronze medal.
• Coach Bob Day is the
1st coach in King’s history
to win an ACAC Coach
of the Year Award by
being named the ACAC
Men’s Basketball Coachof-the-Year.

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