Tom’s long storied volleyball career began in Courtenay, BC where he was a member of the Georges P. Vanier Towhees that captured the Vancouver Island High School Volleyball Championship in 1972. After high school, Tom stayed close to home and played at the University of Victoria where he started to turn heads, especially at the national level. He left BC when he was selected to go to the national team training centres in Montreal and Winnipeg. Before he left, Tom helped Team BC win Gold at the Canada Winter Games in 1975. While in university, Tom made Team Canada’s Men’s Volleyball team and competed in the Pan-American games, World Cup, World Championships and the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Following the Games, Tom played for the University of Manitoba Bisons where he would help lead them to two CIAU national championships in three years. After graduating with a Bachelor’s in Psychology, he eventually made his way back to BC and stepped into coaching, with stints at Trinity Western and UVic before heading to the University of Saskatchewan where he continued his coaching career with the Huskies. Tom would go on and receive his PhD in Health Psychology. He is a part of the Saskatchewan Hall of Fame, Volleyball Saskatchewan Hall of Fame, and was most recently inducted into the Volleyball BC Hall of Fame in 2020 in the Team category for the 1975 Canada Winter Games Men’s team that won gold.

Listen to Tom’s Hall of Fame Induction Podcast HERE