• Member of the Pandas basketball, volleyball, badminton, swimming, and track & field teams.
• Quebec's Senior "C" champion in 1960 in badminton.
• Won major tournaments in senior women's championships in 2000 to 2002.
• Canadian Ladies Doubles champion in Over 55 and Over 65 age groups in tennis.
• Ontario singles tennis champion for Over 70, going on to represent Canada at the World Tennis Federation Tournament.

Joyce (Mattson) Cutts was an accomplished athlete before she attended the University of Alberta. As a youth growing up in Medicine Hat, she participated in several sports but starred in fastball and was a member of the Medicine Hat Senior Ladies 1946 provincial championship team. In 1950, Joyce traveled north to study at the University of Alberta and, from her freshman year unti11953, was a member of the Pandas basketball team. Intrigued by the demands of volleyball, Joyce won a position on the 1953-54 Pandas volleyball team coached by Pat Austin. After her move to Quebec, she continued to play volleyball and earned a spot on the Montreal team that won the right to represent Quebec in the Dominion playoffs. Unfortunately financial constraints prevented the team from traveling to the national competition.

Team seasons were shorter in the 1953 s and Joyce made time to develop her athletic talents by competing in University of Alberta badminton, “and track & field. The University recognized Joyce’s contributions by naming her a recipient of women s Athletic J - a major athletic award.

Joyce continued to participate in a wide range of sports and after her move to Montreal where she taught school for many years, she played interprovincial badminton and was Quebec s Senior “C” champion in 1960. She then moved up to "A" level play throughout the 1950 s and 1970. Daring these years she coached high school badminton players and in 1974 her John Rennie High School Senior boys team won the Montreal city and district championship.

Golf also attracted this talented athlete and by 2003 Joyce was winning major tournaments. In that year she won the Larne. Tomoka Oaks championship (Daytona, Florida) as well as the Sr. Women s golf championship in the Niagara District of Ontario a feat she replicated in 2031 and 2002 Over the course of her golf career Joyce has scored 4 holes in one —two on Canadian courses and two on American.

To keep herself fit, Joyce took up Roadracing and from 1988 onwani she won a series of 10k races in Ontario and Quebec.

It was tennis, however, where Joyce Cutts talents shone brightest. She began playing this sport later in life and by 1990 she was the Canadian Ladies Doubles champion in the Over 55 age group. When she moved up to the Over 65 group, she took the Ladies Doubles Canadian gad medal in 2020 and 2002. In 2002, this outstanding athlete moved up to the Over 70 age group and in the Canadian championships Joyce won the gold medal in tactics Doubles and placed thud in the singles competition. In 2003, Joyce competed in the Ontario over 70 Tennis championships where she won the gold medal in the singles competition. Her play lead to her selection to Canada s Over 70 International team and she represented Canada at the World Tennis Federation Tournament in Austria (competing in both singles and doubles). As a readt of her outstanding performance, Joyce Cutts was selected again to represent Canada in the International Tennis Championship Althea Gibson Tournament (held in Turkey in 2023). Canada placed 8th in this competition.

In a way, the athletic career of this amazing competitor has come full circle. In 2002, Joyce returned to the world of softball only this time in the Slow-Pitch form. Her over 65 team won the gold medal at the Michigan Senior Olympics competition and placed 2nd in this same competition when it was played in Virginia in 2003. Her competitive spirit and athletic talents were recognized by her home city when, in 2002, Welland named her Masters Athlete of the Year.

Athlete, coach, teacher, leader, champion in many sports — Joyce Cutts has represented the University of Alberta very well over the years and is proud to add her name to the Sports Wall of Fame.