Chris Hall (September 17, 1950 – December 21, 2014) was a
lacrosse
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player and coach. He was inducted into
National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame
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in 2014 and the
Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame
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as builder in 2015. As a coach in the
National Lacrosse League
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The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United Stat ...
, he won the
Champion's Cup
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Winners
Most Valuable Players
All-time Finals appearances since leagu ...
with the
Calgary Roughnecks
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and
Washington Stealth
The Washington Stealth were a member of the National Lacrosse League, the professional box lacrosse league of North America from the 2010 NLL season through the 2013 NLL season. They were based in Everett (part of the Seattle metropolitan area ...
.
Hall co-won the
Les Bartley Award The Les Bartley Award is given annually to the National Lacrosse League head coach of the year. The award was simply called the Head Coach of the Year award until 2004, when the award was renamed in honour of Les Bartley, the most successful coach i ...
with
Derek Keenan Derek Keenan (born October 2, 1961, in Oshawa, Ontario) is a former lacrosse player, and current head coach and general manager of the Saskatchewan Rush of the National Lacrosse League. Keenan has won the NLL GM of the Year award and the Les Bartle ...
as the NLL coach of the year in 2010. He won the
Mann Cup
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with the
Victoria Shamrocks
The Victoria Shamrocks are a Senior A box lacrosse team, based in Victoria, British Columbia. The team competes in the 7-team Western Lacrosse Association (WLA).
The Shamrocks entered the former Inter-City Lacrosse League, which is now the WLA, i ...
three times: twice as a coach and once as a player.
He is survived by his sister, Janice, wife Pam Harknett, stepsons Brock and Drew Henson, and step-granddaughters Georgia, Annika, and Leni Henson.
References
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1950 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from cancer
National Lacrosse League coaches
National Lacrosse League major award winners
Calgary Roughnecks coaches