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Irwin Strifler

Following a brief but successful career in American college football and a stint with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Footbal League, former University of Alberta Golden Bear Irwin Strifler opted for a career as a teacher, coach, and administrator, assuming the role of director of athletics for the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in 1968.

Over the next 30 years, Strifler was the architect of one of Canada's most respected college athletic and intramural programs, in which teams and individual athletes from NAIT won 157 Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) gold medals, 12 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA) national team championships, and 17 individual gold medals.

Strifler also served in various administrative capacities with the ACAC and the CCAA, coached minor league hockey, and volunteered at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and 1983 Universiade Games. He retired from NAIT in 1998 and was named to that institution's Wall of Fame in 2003. He is a 2005 inductee to the University of Alberta's Sports Wall of Fame.

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