Hailing from Newfoundland, Wendy Bedingfield first appeared at Acadia in 1970 as a lecturer, volleyball and basketball coach. She later earned her PhD and, in 1976, joined the faculty at the University of Alberta where she ran a highly productive sport biomechanics lab. Her understanding of the role of universities, leadership, and sport developed, and […]

From the fall of 1984 to the spring of 1988, Greg Reeds made a huge impact on athletics at Acadia University both as head coach of the men’s soccer team and as an enthusiastic supporter of the University’s athletes and their wide area of sports interests. Greg’s background experience with the game of soccer included […]

Kentville native Burton Russell has been a sports enthusiast for as long as he can remember. A Kings County Academy graduate, he came to Acadia in 1954 and earned degrees in Arts ’57 and Education ’58 followed by a Diploma in Physical Education through Dalhousie University and the Department of Education. For the first 10 […]

Elizabeth Vermeulen, who attended grades ten and eleven at Central Kings Rural High and grade twelve at the recently opened Horton District High School, was certainly an all-round student who excelled in both academics and athletics. Ranked first in her graduation class at Horton and selected to be her school’s first valedictorian, Elizabeth entered U.N.B. […]

The late Jack Scholz, a New Haven, Connecticut native, was a graduate of Springfield College. Beginning his teaching career at Colby College, this All-American athlete, was destined to devote some twenty plus years as a highly respected faculty member of Acadia University’s School of Recreation and Physical Education. For a dozen of these academic years, […]

John F. Herbin of the Class of 1890 was a gifted athlete and visionary whose organizational skills and leadership ability contributed greatly to the growth of Acadia University’s sports facilities. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and a descendant of French settlers in Grand Pre, he left school at the age of nine and began learning […]

 …an outstanding coach and administrator whose ’65, ’66 and ’67 Canadian football Axemen became Conference contenders. William “Bill” Busching, a gentleman with a Springfield College and University of Maine background, first appeared on the Acadia scene during the fall of 1965. He had, however, been involved with the Nova Scotia athletics a decade earlier, having […]

Athletic Director and a national championship basketball coach During the Fall of 1967, Gib Chapman one of New England’s leading small college coaches who had completed a 19-4 record with the Ricker College basketball squad that previous season, had arrived on the Acadia campus to become head coach of the men’s basketball squad. During his […]