Featured Inductee: Ken Babcock - Builder

Year Inducted: 2019
Home Town: Oshawa

More about Ken Babcock:
Ken Babcock has been the athletic director at Durham College since 1995, and is the current president of Baseball Oshawa. In his leading role at Durham College, Ken has helped lead Durham Lords sports teams to an astonishing 42 provincial gold medals and 105 medals overall in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) and an additional five gold and 22 overall medals in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA). On top of those duties, Ken also served as athletic director for the first eight years of existence at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), where he oversaw the Ridgebacks’ first Ontario University Athletics (OUA) medal. A tireless worker, Ken has served a variety of roles on the executive of the OCAA, including president from 2001 to 2003, founded the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association (CIBA) in 1994, created the Durham College Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, helped launch the OCAA Hall of Fame in 2003, and has drawn multiple provincial and national championship tournaments to Oshawa. He planned, developed and launched the birth of the UOIT varsity athletics program in 2003, and has been a driving force behind construction of athletic facilities on campus, which not only serve the students but also the wider community. A native of Brockville, Ont., and father of two, Ken has also given back to the Oshawa community beyond the campus, primarily through Baseball Oshawa, where he has coached since 2005 and served as president since 2012. He was a member of the organizing committee for the 2000 Ontario Summer Games, 2008 Ontario Special Olympics Spring Games, as well as the baseball portion of the 2015 Toronto Pan-Am Games.