Bill Gordon

Builder (2008)

Basketball

Bill Gordon has contributed to Saskatoon basketball since 1983, starting as president and administrator of the Saskatoon Senior Men's League, which has grown from 18 to 72 teams.

He started the Wildwood summer camps and continues to organize them for players from Grade 5 to Grade 12. He has coached numerous community and high school basketball teams, serving as an assistant with Evan Hardy's provincial champions in 1992.

He was a referee at Bedford Road's Hoopla from 1976 to 1984, and in Canada West men's and women's basketball from 1976 to 1983. He won a Canadian Association of Basketball officials award in 2002.

He has been an elementary school co-coordinator of Voyageur and Orienteering clubs, a recreational canoeing instructor, a Huskie football player and later a coach at Evan Hardy's provincial champions, as well as participating in soccer, lacrosse and half-marathons.