A high school provincial champion for Dakota Collegiate, guard T.L. (Terri-Lee) Johannesson made an immediate impact for the Bisons women’s basketball team, culminating in back-to-back national championships in 1996-97. This Sunday during Manitoba’s home opener at 2 pm, she gets the call to the Canada West Hall of Fame, being selected as one of eight inductees across four categories in the class of 2024.
Johannesson is the second Bisons women’s basketball alum to earn Hall of Fame status, joining her head coach and former Bisons Director of Athletics, Coleen Dufresne.
In 1991, Johannesson was named the GPAC Rookie of the Year, the first of countless conference and national accomplishments in her career.
She was a three-time CIAU All-Canadian in 1994-95, 1995-96, and 1997-98 and the National Championship Tournament MVP in 1995-96 (scored 30 points) and 1996-97 where she helped the Bisons become one of just nine teams to repeat as national champs in U SPORTS history.
A consistent scoring threat, Johannesson won the GPAC scoring title in her graduating year in 1996-97, setting a program record with 26.2 points per game. She was named the CIAU Female Athlete of the Year that season, becoming the first Bison, and one of just two to ever win the prestigious award.
She’s also the only player in school history to average over 20 points per game in more than one season, doing so in 1997 as well as 1996 (21.6, fourth-most points per game in school history). Overall, Johannesson ranks in the top ten in six different school stats categories, and she was inducted into the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.
Johannesson was also Manitoba’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1996 and 1997. She’s one of just seven individuals to accomplish the honour in the 61-year history of the award.