Nominate now for Surrey Sports Hall of Fame\u2019s next class of 2027<\/p>\n
Published 11:45 am Thursday, October 8, 2026<\/p>\n
Do you know a person or team worthy of Surrey Sports Hall of Fame?<\/p>\n
Nominations are now open for six categories and one award of the Hall, launched in 2026 with the induction of eight individuals and two teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHelp us honour the athletes, coaches, builders and others who have made a lasting impact on Surrey\u2019s sports community,\u201d says a post on surrey.ca<\/a>, where nominations are accepted until Dec. 31.<\/p>\n The six award categories are Athlete, High Performance Athlete, Team, Game Changer, Builder and Coach, plus a Community Hero Award.<\/p>\n Those who nominate should be prepared to send sports achievements of a nominee, community contributions, quality of character, supporting documents, letters of recommendation and more, on surrey.ca\/sportshall<\/a>. Questions can be emailed to sportshall@surrey.ca<\/a> or call 604-592-6946.<\/p>\n Nominations are valid for three years, and a class of inductees will be celebrated each June.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, on June 2, the first 10 members of Surrey\u2019s new Sports Hall of Fame were celebrated during a ceremony at Surrey City Hall.<\/p>\n Inducted were wrestler John \u201cEarthquake\u201d Tenta<\/a>, Whalley Little League builder Orest Springenatic<\/a>, BC Lions football player Terry Bailey<\/a>, wheelchair tennis trailblazer Sarah Hunter<\/a>, track athlete\/coach Harold Morioka<\/a>, weightlifter Prabdeep Sanghera<\/a>, multi-sport builder Cyril William Greenwell<\/a>, rugby coach Adam Roberts<\/a>, the Surrey Marlins<\/a> women\u2019s soccer team of 1990-1993 and the BC Tigers Hurricanes<\/a> men\u2019s soccer team of 2018.<\/p>\n A display at the Museum of Surrey<\/a> showcases inductees, while long-range plans are to create a permanent home for the Sports Hall of Fame at City Centre Arena, where a groundbreaking event<\/a> was attended by singer Michael Bubl\u00e9 and others Sept. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nominate now for Surrey Sports Hall of Fame\u2019s next class of 2027 Published 11:45 am Thursday, October 8,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-925725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}