Darwin Michael Semotiuk (February 6, 1945 – January 4, 2022) was a Canadian football coach and professor of kinesiology at the

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. He coached the

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football team from 1975 to 1984 and also served as the university's athletic director for 20 years. He won two

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championships, in 1976 and 1977. He was the CIAU Coach of the Year in 1976. Semotiuk attended the

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where he played on and captained the basketball and football teams in the 1960s. He was later drafted by the

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of the CFL and played on the Canadian national men's basketball team. He earned a Ph.D. from

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. He was added to the University of Alberta's Sports Wall of Fame in 2002. Semotiuk died on January 4, 2022, at the age of 76, from

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related to sepsis.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Semotiuk, Darwin 1945 births 2022 deaths Canadian people of Ukrainian descent Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario Western Mustangs football coaches Canadian football people from Edmonton Deaths from sepsis Infectious disease deaths in Ontario University of Alberta alumni