The BC Sports Hall of Fame has revealed its 2025 Induction Class and Trail’s Ray Ferraro and Rossland’s Cindy Devine have made the list of honoured members.
Alongside the Kootenay locals joining the ranks in May next year are three athletes, three builder-coaches, one team, one pioneer, one media member and the winner of the prestigious W.A.C. Bennett Award.
“After months of anticipation, we’re energized to begin telling the stories and marking the outstanding achievements of our Class of 2025,” said Tom Mayenknecht, Chair of the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
“Honouring the past – and inspiring the future – is at the very heart of the mission of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and this year’s honourees truly exemplify the best of sport in this province and beyond. On behalf of our Board of Trustees, Selection Committee chaired by Stan Wong and management team led by Chief Executive Officer Michelle Kitchen, we congratulate our deserving inductees and look forward to coming together again in person to fully honour the Class of 2025 at our BC Sports Hall of Fame Induction Gala next year.”
Ray Ferraro
Ferraro is among the most consistent NHL goal scorers ever among BC-born-and-raised players.
He topped 20+ goals 12 times and 40+ goals twice during 18-season NHL career (1984-2002) with six teams: Harford Whalers, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, and St. Louis Blues.
His 1258 NHL regular season games produced 408 goals, and 898 points rank fourth, fifth, and seventh all-time among BC-born players as of 2024.
His career best season was in 1991-92 with the Islanders scoring 40 goals and 80 points in 80 games, earning an appearance in the 1992 NHL All-Star Game.
Ferraro represented Canada three times at the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships, helping Canada to silver medal finishes in 1989 in Sweden and 1996 in Austria.
Earlier, he helped the Portland Winter Hawks to the 1983 Memorial Cup championship.
The next season he was named the WHL’s Player of the Year after scoring a league record 108 goals in 72 games, a record that still stands to this day.
Since 2002, he has worked as an on-air analyst/colour commentator for various regional and national NHL broadcasts, most recently on Sportsnet covering Vancouver Canucks games
Cindy Devine
One of Canada’s great early mountain bikers, Devine won the first-ever official UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) world downhill mountain bike championship in 1990 at Durango, Colorado, one of only two Canadian women ever to win this title.
She won world championship bronze medals in ensuing years in 1991 in Ciocco, Italy and in 1992 in Bromont, Quebec. Also finished in the top-five at the world championships in 1993 and 1994.
Her success continued when she won gold in downhill and bronze in slalom at the unofficial world mountain bike championships in 1989.
She is also a five-time undefeated Canadian national downhill mountain bike champion, 1990-94, a three-time US National downhill mountain biking champion in 1990, 1992, and 1994, won the Dodge ‘Desert to Sea’ 150-mile mountain bike race from Palm Springs to San Diego in 1989 and is a three-time champion of the Mammoth Kamikaze downhill race in Mammoth Lakes, California, 1989-91.
Devine was inducted into the World Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2003.
BC Sports Hall of Fame
Induction into the BC Sports Hall of Fame is the highest sporting honour in British Columbia, celebrating the extraordinary individuals and moments that make up the fabric of B.C.’s diverse sport history.
Since 1966, the BC Sports Hall of Fame has inducted 452 individuals and 69 teams to its Hall of Champions, ensuring their legacies will continue to inspire future generations.
The formal Induction Gala for the Class of 2025 is scheduled to be held in May 2025, with details to be announced in the coming months.
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