Skip to content
  1. Home
  2. Opinion

Letter: How the Capilano Blues came to be

The name was a tribute to a North Vancouver high school destroyed by fire in 1977
Brent Richter
Brent Richter
web1_vka-basketball-2079
There’s a reason why the Capilano University sports teams are both named and coloured in blue. | Adriam Lam / Times Colonist

Dear editor:

Thank you for an excellent article on 50 years of athletics at CapU.

I started teaching at Capilano College the year after it opened, and as I am/was a fitness freak, I got to know Joe Iacobellis as soon as he was appointed athletic director.

I went to his fitness classes, and ran around the track.

When the subject of teams came up, and team colours were mentioned, I suggested that Cap use the colours royal blue and turquoise. It was a tribute to the colours used by Delbrook High School, which had burned down in 1977.

Joe liked the idea and that’s how the “Blues” were born.

Hilary Clark,

Retired Capilano University faculty

West Vancouver