Former X-Women basketball standout Theresa MacCuish to be inducted into NS Sport Hall of Fame

Former X-Women basketball standout Theresa MacCuish will be inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame on November 1st, 2014 at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax. She joins four other athletes, two builders, and one team into the elite class.

MacCuish, a native of Balls Creek in Cape Breton, N.S. graduated from StFX in 1997 as the all-time leading scorer in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) women's basketball with a record-setting 2111 points in 91 games.

Theresa has been described as "the greatest women's basketball player to have ever worn an X-Women jersey" at St. Francis Xavier University, according to the hall of fame selection committee.

During her first year of play in 1991-92, MacCuish was the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) and CIS rookie of the year.

She went on to receive the AUS most valuable player award in her sophomore season. Currently, only two former X-Women, including MacCuish, have been recognized as the league's top athlete.

Throughout her university basketball career, MacCuish was recognized twice as a CIS all-Canadian, five times as an AUS all-star and four times as the university's female athlete of the year. She remains the only X-Women basketball athlete to receive all-Canadian designiation.

MacCuish helped lead the X-Women to their first and only AUS conference championship title in 1997. She went on to play in a professional basketball for six years in the U.K. and returned to StFX as both an assistant coach and head coach for two seasons.

Inducted into the StFX Sports Hall of Fame in 2006, MacCuish now resides in Antigonish county, N.S. with her husband Trevor Reddick, an accomplished X-Men soccer alumnus and former X-Women soccer head coach, and their three young children.

Other Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame 2014 inductees to the athletes category included Dalhousie University track star Richard G. Munro, Commonwealth Games silver medallist in badminton Ken Poole, 16-time Atlantic Canadian PGA championship winner Kevin Dugas, and stock car racer Scott Fraser.

In the builder category, Dr. Cathy Campbell has dedicated years to bettering national soccer teams with her knowledge in sports medicine while also coaching one of the provinces greatest track stars, and Anthony Hall has led canoe and kayak teams to unprecedented success while training some of Nova Scotia's finest Olympic and world champion paddlers.

This diverse inductee class is rounded out by the 1998 Truro Bearcats Hockey Club, a team that will be forever remembered for giving Nova Scotia its second-ever Allan Cup win after more than six decades of waiting in the Maritime Junior Hockey League.

The induction ceremony is scheduled for November 1^st, 2014 at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax.