Bill Moody

	Bill Moody
	2019
	Builders

Bill Moody has done it all in the game of basketball. He was born in Winnipeg but grew up in Toronto. He returned to Manitoba in 1967 and played senior basketball before enrolling at Brandon
University where he had a very successful playing career. While attending BU, he coached the Neelin Spartans to a Provincial B Championship. His teaching career began in Killarney where he coached the junior high, junior varsity and varsity boys’ teams for five years. In 1979, he accepted the challenge of rebuilding the BU Bobcats women’s program and, over 5 years, he became the winningest women’s coach in school history. He was twice selected GPAC Coach-of-the-Year and had the Bobcats in the national rankings regularly. He then moved to Crocus Plains High School and coached the Plainsmen to their first MHSAA ‘AAAA’ Final Four.

Bill also became a highly respected official where, for 40 years, he refereed championship games in high school, Canada West university, the Canada Winter Games and the CCAA final in 1981. In addition, he was a regular presenter at numerous basketball clinics and camps for players and coaches in the Westman region. He was the chair of the only MHSAA Provincial Basketball Championship Tournament where all four categories were played at the same location – in Brandon at various venues. In 1999, he was inducted into the Brandon University Wall of Fame.