Outstanding College Coach honoured
Tim Frick to receive highest award

ANNETTE MARTIN

Douglas College coach Tim Frick will receive this
province's highest award, the Order of British Columbia,
on June 17, 1999.

11 of those coaching wheelchair basketball, and he
has had a positive impact on the lives of thousands
of athletes.

Frick has guided the National Women’s Wheelchair
Basketball team to several titles including the Gold Cup
World championship in 1994 and 1998, and Paralympics
[check spelling] titles in 1992 and 1996.

He was also instrumental in the planning and imple-
mentation of the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Tour, which
raised the world’s awareness of the potential of people
with disabilities and the barriers they face.

He is the “winningest” coach in
womens wheelchair basketball,
and the only coach in Canada to
win a gold medal at the World
Championship or Olympic
Games,

“T think it’s fantastic after all this time, Tim finally got
his due,” said Hansen. “He's incredibly selfless, a true
supporter and giver. He believes in teamwork first. He’s a
leader, a mentor and a friend and he has impacted on a
lot of people.”

Fe of Port Coquitam has been a coach for 30 years,

“T don't know if I did anything special or different,”
Frick said. “I took the same kind of approach I always
have taken [to] coaching—a humanistic one. Everyone in
life has differences and varying abilities, it’s just a matter
of tapping into them.”

The Order of British Columbia awards will be presented
to 14 recipients in the June 17 ceremony to be held at
Government House.

In making the announcement, Premier Glen Clark said,
“These outstanding British Columbians have made a dif-
ference in their chosen fields and given generously of
themselves. The Order of British Columbia recognizes

_ their outstanding achievements and their positive impact

on the lives of thousands of people.”

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page 3 the Other Press June 1999