• Before becoming a Golden Bear, played professional hockey, winning the U.S. Hockey League championship with the Kansas City Pla-Mors in 1947.
• Captain of the Golden Bears, winning the Wilson Trophy as the University's Male Athlete of the Year in 1951.
• Won the WCIAU championship all four years he competed and won the Hamber Trophy in 1951.
• Went on to play senior hockey, winning the Western Canada Senior Hockey Championship with the Penticton Vees in 1953.

Jim Fleming graduated as class president from Westglen High School in 1944. An outstanding athlete, Jim's great love was hockey. He played his way through the midget, juvenile and junior ranks and such were his talents he was drafted by the Buffalo Bisons. In 1944, however, Jim's professional hockey career was put "on hold" when he joined the Royal Canadian Navy where he rose to the rank of Sub lieutenant. Following his discharge in 1945, Jim returned to Edmonton and joined a team that went on to win the first Western Canada Intermediate Hockey Championship defeating, in the finals, the Canadian Army team that played out of Vernon B.C. The next season (1946-47) Jim Fleming played professional hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks' farm team, the Kansas city Pla-mors. The Pla-mors were exceptionally strong that year and went on to win the US. Hockey League championship.

Although successful in the professional ranks, Jim decided to attend university and selected the University of Alberta to pursue his degree in agriculture. He joined the Golden Bears and helped to build the Golden Bear hockey legend. From his sophomore year onwards, Jim captained the Golden Bears hockey team, He also won the MVP and Purcell trophies in 1948-49 and 1949-50. In 1950-51, Jim Fleming was awarded the Wilson Trophy as the University's Male Athlete of the Year. During each of Jim's four years as a Golden Bear hockey player, the team won the WCIAU championship and his team participated in the first US- Alberta college series at Colorado College and Denver University. At the close of the 1950-1951 season, the Bears played the UBC Thunderbirds for the Hamber Trophy, emblematic of Alberta/ BC university hockey supremacy and defeated their west coast rivals in a two game, total goal series. During the nomination process for this recognition, a classmate and an eminent Canadian wrote these words about Jim Fleming, 'He was simply in a class of his own, a superb performer on and off the ice, looked up to by all of us at the time and still, as the finest example of a player and a gentleman."

After graduation Jim was recruited to play for the 1951-52 Edmonton Waterloo Mercurys (a team that went on to win for Canada the Olympic Gold in 1952). But Jim had already signed a contract to play hockey that season with Kamloops in the BC Senior Hockey League. He was never one to break a commitment and he played that season with the Kamloops Elks. The next year (1952-53) Jim skated for the Western Canada Senior Hockey Championship and Allan Cup finalists, Penticton V's, and then elected to return, to play for the Kamloops Elks for the 1953-54 season - his last year in competitive hockey.

Since retiring as an athlete, Jim has continued to support the development of amateur hockey in British Columbia While operating as a businessman in Merritt B.C, Jim assisted a volunteer group that raised the funds necessary to build an enclosed arena for their community. He then moved to Princeton and served as a volunteer hockey coach before moving on to Vancouver. During all those years Jim has remembered his roots and served as the President of the Vancouver Branch of the University of Alberta Alumni Association in 1972-73 and 1973-74. Today, Jim Fleming continues as a prominent businessman in the hotel industry. As an outstanding student-athlete and a highly supportive alumnus, we are proud to add the name "Jim Fleming" to the University Of Alberta Sports Wall Of Fame.