3 new members named to UPEI Sports Hall of Fame

Three new members with different sports backgrounds will be inducted into the UPEI Sports Hall of Fame on Nov. 9.

The three inductees this year are George Morrison, a longtime basketball coach, Alanna Taylor, acelebrated soccer star, and the late Barb Mullaly, who had a four-decade career as aninstructor, coachand nationally decorated athletic administrator at UPEI.

"I was quite honoured, there's no question of that. I spent a lot of time atUPEI," Morrison said of his 17 year coaching career at the school.

Morrison coached both the women's and men's teams at UPEI, winning over 300 games and making the playoffs nearly every year.

He also won numerous conference championships, season titles and coach of the year awards.

'It was all about managing my time'

Taylor was excited to learn she was going to be an inductee but that she was even more thrilled when she learnedMullaly was going to be inductedposthumously.

"She was the only athletic director that I knew," Taylor saidof Mullaly.

"She was there for most of the time that I coached and then Barb and I got to be friends afterwards because we were actually on the sports hall of fame committee."

Taylorsaid the things Mullaly did for women atUPEIwas extraordinary not only for athletes but women in general.

Taylor was a top student-athlete and keeper for the UPEIwomen's soccer squad in the early 90s.

Among her awards were rookie of the year, MVP, All-Conference, and both UPEI and Atlantic Female Athlete of the Year awards.

"It was all about managing my time," said Taylor of being involved in sports and a good student.

"What I got from UPEIfar exceeded what I gave to UPEI."

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