The Victoria Shamrocks were inducted into the Victoria Sports Hall of Fame on their 50th anniversary .The team was born with the opening of Memorial Arena in 1950 and they have enjoyed a storied, almost fabled, existence. The Shamrocks can boast that some of the greatest lacrosse players in the world were proud to wear the famous green and white. The Shamrocks won the Mann Cup Canadian Senior "A" championship six times --in 1955, 1957, 1979, 1983, 1997 and 1999 along with twelve league titles and eleven playoff finals. There was the heyday of the 1950s, the dry spell of the 1960s, the renaissance of the 1970s, evolution of the 1980s and the days of thunder in the 1990s. Through it all, the Shamrocks have provided us with so many memorable summer nights at Memorial Arena and have become an integral part of the Greater Victoria community.

Walter Yeamans was an outstanding coach who came to his lifelong love and devotion to coaching women's sports teams honestly. He first became interested in women's basketball because of a personal interest in one of the players, Charlotte, who became his wife and loving life partner. Walter led his softball teams, Unitys in the 1930's, Reds Service in the 1940's, Individuals in the 50's and Vikettes in the 1960's and 1970's, to three B.C. junior championships, 14 B.C. Senior 'B' titles, two B.C. and Western Canada Senior "A" titles and a silver medal at the 1973 Canada Summer Games. Walter led his basketball teams, Unitys and Eaglettes in the 1930's and 1940's, McDonald Electric and Victoria Van Isle in the 1950's and the UVic Vikettes in the 1960's, to B.C. championships in each of the juvenile, junior, Senior "A" and Senior "B" ranks, and to the Canadian Junior "A" title.