Jessica Deglau a 2013 inductee will take her place among the 107 individuals and 20 teams currently in the Hall of Fame at the annual Big Block Awards, to be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on April 3. For tickets and information, please contact Steve Bell-Irving at steve.bell-irving@ubc.ca or call 604-822-6183.
Jessica Deglau was a butterfly specialist on five CIS Championship swim teams at UBC between 1995 and 2002. She took time off from university to focus on training for Olympic competition in 1996 and 2000. The Vancouver native was a finalist in the 1996 Games with a sixth-place finish in 200-metre butterfly, setting a Canadian record in the process. She was also a finalist in both the 1996 and 2000 Games as a member of the 800-metre and 400-metre freestyle relay teams. She won a total of five Commonwealth Games medals in 1998 and 2002, and at the 1999 Pan American Games she posted the second fastest time in the world that year in 200-metre butterfly. She won a total of 29 medals in CIS competition, the most ever for a female swimmer, and was CIS Swimmer of the Year in 1999 and 2000. She capped off her graduation year in 2002 as a co-recipient of the Marilyn Pomfret Trophy and as an Academic All Canadian in the Faculty of Arts.