Basketball, soccer and volleyball will have at least four athletes from each gender in the CCAA Hall of Fame next week. Hockey has none due in part to shoddy record keeping, inconsistent annual honours, exclusionary eligibility criteria and restrictive nomination practices.

Award information posted on the national governing body's website is incomplete and/or inaccurate for over a third of the hockey players who meet eligibility requirements including a half dozen who received CCAA Tournament Most Valuable Player honours. Award information is incomplete for three who represented Alberta, two who represented Nova Scotia and one who represented Quebec and inaccurate for three who represented Alberta, one who represented Quebec and one who represented Nova Scotia. If documents placed on the CCAA site are problematic, chances are the documents utilized to determine eligibility are also problematic.

The failure of the CCAA to celebrate CCAA All Canadians in all team sports during an academic year resulted in missed opportunities for a number of hockey players to become eligible for the CCAA Hall of Fame. Hockey was the lone sanctioned team sport that did not have CCAA All Canadians honoured in 1982, 1996 and 1997.

in addition, recent changes to eligibility criteria have excluded athletes who have not competed at a CCAA National Championship. Marcel Dionne, Mike Gartner, Borje Salming, Darryl Sittler, Peter Stasny & Mats Sundin entered the Hockey Hall of Fame without lacing up the skates in a Stanley Cup Final. Similarly, a two-time CCAA All Canadian from Alberta is denied consideration on the basis of his hockey team's inability to earn a berth at nationals.

Of the 29 hockey players eligible for the CCAA Hall of Fame, twelve donned the jersey of former member institutions -- Cariboo College, Cégep de Saint-Laurent, Collège Français, Mount Royal College and the (University) College of Cape Breton. The operating code states that the nominee "must have a CCAA institution in good standing support their nomination". Every athlete who has been inducted into the CCAA Hall of Fame represented a member institution that was a member of the CCAA at the time of entry.

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