What Junior High did you attend?

Vernon Barford

What year did you graduate from Harry Ainlay?

1983

What sports did you play at Harry Ainlay?

Football, Track & Field

After graduating Harry Ainlay did you play post-secondary or professional sport?

University of British Columbia Football

What is your current profession?

Screenwriter and Filmmaking Instructor

What lessons did you learn as an athlete that have served you well in your professional career?

A team can achieve excellence only by recognizing the individuals within it, and understanding that individuals are effectively motivated in vastly different ways.

All strong things are built from foundations. Spending the time and effort to learn all the steps may not always be exciting, but the rewards are power, flexibility and creativity in your chosen field.

Your character is defined most significantly by two things; how you react to set-backs, your defeats, and how you treat your opponents when you win.

If you could share one message or memory with current Titans what would it be?

Coming into my final preseason football camp at Ainlay. This would have been August 1982. It was an extraordinary summer, an extraordinary team. You could feel it right away... the looseness, the laughter, the excellence. Two-a-days can be a crush but that August I didn't want them to end. I remember at the end of one afternoon session Coach Anderson and I stood on the field, looking over that expanse of faded green into a low sun, the smell of sweat, dirt and sunburnt grass, the sounds of pads and cleats and banter as the guys headed back to the locker room. When we stop for a moment and take in all that is, all that can be, the people you're with... life can be extraordinary. Those memories last.

Your favorite memory as a Titan?

Daylight. Hearing Bernd and Carl's feet pound the earth behind us, then, thunder past as they found those shifting slivers of daylight we tried to create. O-Line.

Anything else you would like to share?

To be brave, curious and enthusiastic is to live... to also be compassionate is a legacy.