• Participated in Pandas basketball and volleyball (1958-62).
• Played on the Canadian women's national volleyball team at two Pan American Games (1967 and 1971) and in the World Championships (1970).
• Coached the University of Calgary women's volleyball team (1964-75).
• Coached the Canadian women's volleyball team at the World Universiade Games (1970).
• Received the Canadian Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Union Honour Award (1976).

Andrea Borys was born in Edmonton where she attended Strathcona Composite High School and the University of Alberta. At this university she earned a BP.E ('62) and a Teaching Certificate a year later.

Throughout high school and her undergraduate years she excelled in basketball and volleyball and was active in the organization of women's Millets. Following completion of an M. Sc at the 'University of Oregon ('64), she taught and coached for a year at Western Canada High School in Calgary. Her career as a university faculty member began with an appointment in physical education at the University of Calgary where she taught, coached women's volleyball for 12 seasons, and served as Director of Women's Athletics.

In international sport she played on Canada's national volleyball team at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1967, and coached the Canadian Women’s Volleyball team at the 1970 World University (Universiade) in Italy. From 1969 to 1971 she was manager of Canada's women's basketball team when they toured Cuba in 1969 and played at the 1970 World Championships in Brazil and the 1971 Pan American Games in Columbia.

In 1975 Andrea Borys came home to the University of Alberta to a joint appointment in the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation. Her efforts led to promotion in 1985 to a full professorship and later to appointment as Assistant, then Associate Dean of Education. While in the Dean's office she has provided leadership in establishing closer links with schools. Her interest in curriculum and teaching resulted in undertaking studies in those areas at Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York, for which she was awarded an Ed. D. in 1982. Active as a member and on the executive of many professional and academic organizations in Canada and the US, she has been a leader in the Alberta Teacher's Association, Health and Physical Education Council and at the national level in the Canadian Association of Health Physical Education and Recreation. Her influence in sport, and physical and general education has been widened by extensive consulting, and innumerable presentations at conferences, workshops and symposia across the country. In addition, she has written and published a wide range of professional and scholarly papers dealing with teacher education reform, school-university partnerships in teacher education, the nature of successful teaching, and equity in education, physical education and sport.

Among the many honours earned by this outstanding Canadian educator are: the Breakthrough Award, in recognition of her leadership in providing more equitable opportunities for girls and women in physical education and sport, 1990; the Distinguished Service Award of the Alberta Teacher's Association, 1986; a citation in the World's Who's Who of Women, 4th edition, 1977; the Honour Award of the Canadian Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Union, 1976; and the Achievement Award in recognition of service to sport, from the Government of Alberta, 1975.