UVic Sports Hall of Fame
CATEGORY: Coach
Ken Shields was the University of Victoria Vikings men's basketball coach from 1976-89 and during that time he won seven straight CIAU National Championships and four "CAU Coach of the Year" awards. In his seven championship seasons, Shields produced six CIAU most valuable players, eight CIAU All-Stars and nine CIAU All-Canadians. In his 13 years as head coach, Shields won 10 Canada West championship titles, three of which were during undefeated seasons (1979, 1982,1983).
A former national team program director and head coach, Shields has a Master Coach certificate from the Coaching Association of Canada. Shields worked with the Canadian national team from 1990 through to 1994 and coached Canada to a seventh place finish at the 1994 FIBA World Basketball Championships.
In 1998 he was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada and a year later he was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. Shields has also been inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and UBC Sports Hall of Fame as the head coach of the 1969-70 women's basketball team.
After coaching professional sides in Tokyo for two seasons, Shields served as assistant coach of the Australian senior men's basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Closer to home, Shields was instrumental in establishing the University of Victoria's National Coaching Institute and he was the founding president of the Commonwealth Centre for Sport Development.
UVic Achievements
- 1976-89 Head coach of UVic's Men's Basketball Program for 13 years
- 1979-85 Won seven consecutive CIAU National Championship titles
- 1978, 1981, 1982, CIAU Coach of the Year (UVic)
- Produced six CIAU MVPs, eight CIS All-Stars and nine CIS All-Canadians
- Captured 10 Canada West Championships (1977, '78, '79, '80, 81, '82, '83, ' 85, '87, '88)
- 1979, '82 '83 Undefeated Canada West seasons
International Achievements
- 1989 to 1994 Canadian national team program director
- 1990 to 1994 Canadian Men's national team coach
- 1994 FIBA World Basketball Champions 7th place finish
- 1998 to 2000 Coached professionally in Tokyo, Japan
- 2001 to 2003 Australian Senior Men's Assistant Basketball Coach
- 2006 Consultant to the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team
- 2007 Head coach of Georgian National Basketball team
- 2010 Assistant coach of Great Britain National Women's team
Hall of Fame
- 1993 Inducted into the UBC Sports Hall of Fame with 1969-70 UBC Women's Basketball team as head coach
- 1998 Inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
- 2003 Inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame
- 2009 Inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
- 2013 Inducted into the B.C Sports Hall of Fame (with his wife and legendary UVic women's head coach Kathy Shields)
Other Achievements
- 1975 CIAU Coach of the Year (Laurentian University)
- 1969 Head coach of UBC women's basketball team
- 1993 First "Ken Shields basketball, academics & community service Award" presented to a CIS male basketball athlete
- Key component of the development of the National Coaching Institute
- 1994 Founding president of the Commonwealth Centre for Sport Development
- 1999 Appointed as a member of the Order of Canada
