• Competed on the Pandas swim team (1979-82).
• An international swimming star who, in 1975, posted times in the top ten of the world in five different events.
• Participated in the 1974 and 1978 Commonwealth Games, winning one gold medal, three silvers, and one bronze.
• Participated in the 1976 Olympics and won two bronze medals.
• A member of the Alberta and Edmonton Sports Halls of Fame and a recipient of the Governor-General's Medal in 1976.

An Edmontonian, Becky Smith Wiber (B Ed '82) attended Garneau School, and Strathcona Composite High School. One of eight siblings who, along with mother Gwen, and father, Dr. Don (inducted to the U of A Sports Wall of Fame in 1990), became famous across the country, and throughout the swimming world, as the “Swimming Smiths".

Becky was an acclaimed international swimmer for Canada while still in high school, having first gained prominence in the early 1970's as a Canadian age-group record-holder in both the 100m butterfly and the 100m backstroke. In all, she set 40 Canadian age-group records between the ages of 10- and 17-years.

In 1973, at her first Canada Summer Games in New Westminster, B.C., she collected 5 gold-and 1 silver-medal. Each year between 1973 and 1978 she was listed in the “World Top-10 Rankings" in both individual medley (IM) events (200rn and 400m) and at various times in the 100m or 200m freestyle, backstroke, or butterfly. In 1975 she posted 'Top-10 World' times in five different events both IM's, 100m free, 200m back, and 200m butterfly.

As a 14-year-old in 1974, at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, she was on Canada's gold-medal team in the 400m freestyle relay, and earned two silvers in her specialties, the 200m and 400m IM. That same year at the Canadian nationals, she was the high point female while setting national records, again in both IM's. Becky posted a British Commonwealth record in the 200m IM in 1975, followed a few months later by no fewer than 5 first-place finishes in a 15-country international meet in London, England. Before the end of her competitive career she was to set new Commonwealth records in the 200m IM on three separate occasions.

She was a finalist in both medleys at the 1975 World Aquatic Championships in Cali, Columbia. At the Montreal Olympics the next year she won two bronze medals, one in the 400rn IM (also a Commonwealth record), and the other with the Canadian team in the 400m freestyle relay. But the premier event over her entire career was the 200m IM which was unfortunately deleted from the program of the 1976 Olympics, when she was at her peak. The event was restored to the Olympic program in 1980 and has remained because it best challenges a swimmer's speed and skill in all four competitive strokes. When the Commonwealth Games came to Edmonton in 1978 she won the silver in the 400m and bronze in the 200m IM, achievements that were particularly satisfying because they dime in the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre's Don Smith Pool, named for her father.

Tendonitis in her shoulder prematurely ended her sparkling international career in 1978 at the age of 18 at the World Aquatic Games in Berlin, West Germany. On her return to Canada, she was named Canadian University Female Swimmer of the Year. Among other honours are: Edmonton Female Athlete of the Year 1974; induction to the Alberta (1974) and the Edmonton (1991) Sports Halls of Fame; and the Governor General's Medal, 1976.

Becky and husband Bruce, are teachers with the Edmonton Public School Board, and have a son, Davis.