• Co-captain of the Golden Bears football team, winning the WCIAU championship in 1960.
• Won two national titles as head coach of the Edmonton Huskies.
• First head coach of the University of Calgary football team and later the Director of Athletics and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education.
• A scholarship fund at the University of Calgary is named in his honor.
• General Manager and president of the Calgary Olympic Development Association (1990-99).

As a youth growing up in Edmonton during the 1950's, Dennis Kadatz (BPE '60; MA '65; PhD '80; UO) was known as an outstanding athlete. He starred in hockey, baseball, and football. It was, however, the sport of football which eventually played a dominant role in his life. From 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the Edmonton Huskies Football Team, twice winners of the provincial championship during that span. He joined the Golden Bears for the 1959 and 1960 seasons, was named co-captain of both teams, and helped lead them to a WCIAU championship in his last year as a player.

Following graduation, Dr. Kadatz began to direct his energy to the task of building sports programs. He was appointed head coach of the Edmonton Huskies in 1961. Under his leadership, the Huskies went on to win the provincial championship in his first year and consecutive national titles in 1962 and 1963. In 1964 Dennis was recruited to the faculty of the University of Calgary where he became the first head coach of the newly formed Dinosaurs Football Team. He continued in this role until 1968 when he reverted to a position as an assistant coach in order to devote more time to a new leadership challenge - that of Director of Athletics in the University's School of Physical Education, a position to which he had been appointed in 1966. Dr. Kadatz is the person primarily responsible for the intercollegiate athletic program of the University of Calgary emerging as a national power in a number of interuniversity sports. From 1975 to 1985, Dr. Kadatz served as the Faculty's Associate Dean, a position that gave him responsibility for athletics, recreation and facilities. When he left the University of Calgary in 1985, its Athletic Scholarship Fund was named in his honour. The impact of his legacy as a founding developer of these programs continues to be felt.

Never a person to refuse a challenge, Dennis accepted a new leadership role in 1985 when he was named the General Manager of the Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA). From 1990 to 1999 he served as the president and a member of the Board of Directors of this Association. When Dennis assumed this new role, CODA had two employees. By the time he retired from CODA in 1999, the organization had grown to a staffing complement of 75 full-time and over 300 part-time employees. It had net assets of over $200 million and an annual budget of $12 million. This was an amazing achievement accomplished during difficult economic times and reflects clearly the high quality of this inductee's abilities.

During the decades of the 1970's -1990's, Dr. Kadatz served as a member of the executive or on the Board of Directors of 11 different local, provincial, national