McGill University Athletics

At the age of 33, Steven Bielby of Pointe Claire, Que.,became the youngest male and second youngest laureate in the Hall, behind hockey player Catherine Ward who was inducted in 2019 at age 32.
 
Born in Montreal on July 16, 1989, Bielby was a product of John Abbott College who went on to become the most decorated swimmer in McGill history with a school record 13 medals at Nationals, eight of them golden (also a record), in five trips to the then-named CIS championships. A team MVP in each of his five seasons, he was named three times as the RSEQ conference's male swimmer of the year (2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12).
 
The 5-foot-9, 155-pound individual medley specialist, Bielby received conference all-star status five times and first-team All-Canadian honours on four occasions. He served as captain for his last three years. He twice merited the Forbes Trophy as McGill's male athlete of the year, initially receiving the honour in 2009, when he became the third freshman in school history to win the award and then winning it again as a senior.
 
In 2013, he also took home the Richard Pound Trophy, presented to a graduating McGill male athlete for proficiency and leadership in athletics. Bielby became only the second athlete in school history to capture both the Forbes and Pound trophies in the same season, joining Ryan Tomicic, also a swimmer, who accomplished the feat in 2006-07.
 
Bielby was selected to swim for Canada at three FISU world university games, namely Serbia (2009), China (2011) and Russia (2013). At the 2012 Canadian Olympic trials for the London Summer Games, he finished third in the 400 individual medley.
 
In the classroom, Bielby merited Academic All-Canadian honours and made the Principal's Student-athlete Honour Roll every year en route to earning an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering (2012), followed by a master's in that field (2015). Among the prestigious academic awards he won at McGill was the J.W. McConnell Entrance Scholarship, a Faculty of Engineering Scholarship, a Clifford Wong Scholarship, a J.W. Woodyatt Scholarship and the T. Palmer Howard Award.