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As the Managing Director, UBC Athletics and Recreation, Kavie Toor (BA’99, BEd’00, MHK’10) oversees UBC’s 26 varsity teams, sporting venue operations, recreation programs, and the department’s business units, and manages over three million square feet of facility space. Through board and management leadership, he has led almost one billion dollars in capital projects. On the UBC Board of Governors, he chaired the People, Community, and International Committee; was a committee member of Audit, Governance, Finance, and Indigenous Engagement; and was vice-chair of the Campus Vision 2050 (UBC’s Master Plan) process. He is presently the vice-president for EDI on the Canada West Board. He has also taught courses in the UBC Faculty of Education and holds three degrees from UBC.

As the Head of City Partnerships at Lyft, Tyla Flexman (BHK’09) leads teams involved in business development across Canada and the US. She also leads the strategy and investment for Lyft’s Sports and Entertainment portfolio, which most recently focused on Women’s Professional Sports. Before Lyft, she worked at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment as a partnership development manager on the global partnerships team. She graduated from Rotman School of Management with an MBA in 2017 and holds a Bachelor of Kinesiology from UBC. She played on the Canadian Women’s National Field Hockey team from 2005 to 2012, representing Canada at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2011 Pan American Games.

Jama Mahlalela (BHK’04) rejoins the Toronto Raptors organization after two seasons with the Golden State Warriors. As an assistant coach, he helped the Warriors capture the 2022 NBA Championship. He was an assistant coach with the Raptors during the 2020-21 campaign, following two seasons (2018-20) as head coach of Toronto’s G League affiliate, Raptors 905. He started with the Raptors as community development staff in 2006, and served as director of basketball operations for NBA Asia in 2009. He remains involved with the non-profit Giants of Africa Foundation. A native of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), he grew up in the Greater Toronto Area, played collegiately at UBC, and began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the University of Toronto.

Dr. Dana A. Sinclair (BPE ’85) is a performance psychologist at Human Performance International (HPI), where she consults with clients from various fields and professional athletes. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the UBC Department of Family Practice. After her UBC degree in Kinesiology, she acquired a Master’s degree from Miami University, Ohio, and a PhD at the University of Ottawa, both in Sport Psychology. She trained to become a registered psychologist, and completed a second PhD at the University of Cambridge in England. In Vancouver, she worked in Reproductive Psychiatry at St. Paul’s and BC Women’s hospitals before becoming a founding partner of HPI. She was previously on the Canadian National Field Hockey Team, played ice hockey at Cambridge, and her new book, Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most was published in January 2024.