• Golden Bears volleyball coach (1973-80), winning silver in 1975 and bronze in 1980; Pandas volleyball coach (1981-82).
• CIAU Volleyball Coach of the Year (1980).
• Director of Campus Recreation at the U of A for 33 years (1963-2004).
• Director of Volleyball for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
• Awarded the Students' Union Gold Key and inducted into both the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Volleyball Association Hall of Fame.

Hugh Hoyles has been an essential part of the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation since 1963 and within this family he is known widely and affectionately as “Captain Recreation”. It is a nickname well earned and a sign of the deep, widely held esteem felt by all for this inductee. Hugh arrived on campus in 1963 and retired in 2004 after 33 years as the Director of Campus Recreation, a unit responsible for the year around provision of organized as well as casual recreation, fitness and lifestyle programs, instructional programs and activity clubs. On his retirement programs under his sphere of influence touched more than 30,000 students as well as 7000 faculty and staff together with their families. His special “Family Fun Days” and the annual “Thanksgiving Turkey Trot” were widely popular events. And his “Old Timers Hockey League” continues to attract colleagues from many walks of campus life. In his years on campus, Hugh Hoyles touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who simply wanted to add fellowship, fun, enjoyment to their lives. Hugh and his teams of supporters provided these to participants and added to them an important ancillary component – health enhancing fitness.

During his tenure in the Faculty Hugh taught Physical Education, Sport and Recreation classes within the degree programs and he coached both the Golden Bears (1973-1980) and Pandas (1981-1982) volleyball teams. His Bears were CIAU national silver medalists in 1975 and bronze medalists in 1980. For his outstanding performance as a coach he was recognized for the 1979-1980 season as the CIAU Volleyball Coach of the Year. To prepare himself for these senior coaching responsibilities, Hugh coached the Edmonton Phoenix Men’s volleyball tam from 1969-1973 and turned them into a nationally competitive force.

So highly regarded was Hugh Hoyles by the Canadian leaders in the world of volleyball and international sphere of sport administrators that he was named Director of Volleyball for the Games of the 21st Olympiad (the Olympic Games) held in Montreal July, 1976. The high quality of Hugh’s performance resulted in a Government of Alberta Achievement Award of Excellence and Sports Canada Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. Not surprisingly when Edmonton and the University of Alberta were awarded the right to host the 1983 Universiade (World Student Games) Hugh Hoyles was appointed Chair of the Volleyball competitions. These, too, were internationally acclaimed competitions – a real tribute to this inductee’s amazing talents as an organizer of sports.

Legacies are often left by inductees to the U of A’s Sports Wall of Fame. Hugh has many of these but perhaps one of the finest is the Alberta Volleyball Association Jasper Volleyball camp that Hugh founded in 1974 and directed for ten years. This program has been a cornerstone in the development of high calibre volleyball in western Canada.

As a tribute to Hugh Hoyles’ commitment to students the Student Union named him a Gold Key recipient in 1990. For his years of dedication to the building of the sport of volleyball, Hugh was recently inducted into both the Alberta and Canadian Volleyball Associations’ Halls of Fame. Hugh’s unremitting zeal in his quest to improve the lives of students, staff and faculty on the campus of the University of Alberta affirms the appropriateness of adding his name to the Sports Wall of Fame.