• A standout Golden Bears basketball centre (1951-54); the team won conference championships in 1951 and 1952.
• Led the western conference in scoring four times and once scored 88 points in a league game against Saskatchewan.
• Represented Canada in men's basketball at the 1956 Olympics and the 1958 Pan American Games.
• Served as the Golden Bears' assistant coach in basketball (1961-62).

Ed Lucht (BSc – Chemical Engineering) was born in Edmonton and attended Alex Taylor and McCauley schools before entering Victoria High School where he competed in basketball, football, tennis, and track, as well as community league baseball during the summer. In 1947 and again 1948 he led Vic to the city high school senior basketball championship. One of the first highly skilled, big men in basketball in the province, he was added to the Waterloo Meteors senior team during his final year in high school.

Entering the University of Alberta in Engineering in 1950, he was a standout player for the basketball Bears for four seasons, 1951 - 1954. The team reached the Western university final in each of those four seasons, winning the conference championship in 1951, and again in 1952 when the team went to Alberta's first appearance in a national basketball final.

A skilled post player, he set scoring records in high school and a western university conference scoring record of 88 points in a 1954 game against Saskatchewan- a record that still stands after more than 40 seasons. In international basketball, he played for the Canadian team at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, and for the Vancouver Eilers, the team that represented Canada at the 1958 Pan America Games in Chile. Following graduation he continued his successful career with Henry Singer's senior Edmonton Town Hailers, national finalists in 1956. He was a key factor in winning national senior championships with the Montreal Snowden Blues in 1957, and as playing coach of the senior "B" Montreal Lakeshore Flyers the next season.

Joining Canadian Industries Limited (CIL, now ICI Canada), in Edmonton after completing his degree in 1954, he spent his entire working career with that organization, holding various senior engineering positions in Montreal, Cornwall, and Toronto. At his retirement in 1992 he was Manager of Manufacturing, Forest Products, for Ontario and the Maritimes.

Ed and wife Lyla live in Etobicoke, Ontario where they satisfy their competitive urges playing golf and tennis. They have four children, Karen, Duane, Greg, and Sandy (Schroder).