Racquetball Canada Ivan Velan Award in 1985<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nNess remains a highly active member of his community and has served in many professional and public leadership roles over the years. He was active as a racquetball player until his late 50\u2019s, when he took up bicycle touring. Notably he has crossed Canada from Vancouver to Wolfville, rode the Sunset Trail from Vancouver to Los Angeles and most recently circumnavigated his home Province, Nova Scotia at the age of 71 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gary Ness’s acceptance remarks from the 2018 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be posted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inducted in 2018 Hometown: \u00a0Barrie Category: Builder Contribution Gary Ness has had a far reaching impact not only racquetball, but in Canadian sport. Ness learned to play racquetball in the 1970\u2019s while completing his PhD in Exercise Physiology at the University of Alberta. He went on to have a long and esteemed career at Acadia University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19897,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions\/19897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}