Honoured as one of the B.C. Football Conference’s greatest players of all-time back in 2007, Shawn Olson is returning to the Langley Rams as the junior football team’s new offensive co-ordinator.
Olson quarterbacked the Rams organization from 1992 to 1995 and won three Cullen Cups and a Western Canadian championship. He threw for 5,758 yards and 62 touchdowns in four seasons.
Olson followed that up with a stellar five-year run as quarterback of the UBC Thunderbirds, earning a Canada West all-star award three times and leading the team to the Vanier Cup — the Canadian national university title — in 1997.
Olson finished with a career 9,953 yards passing (second all-time in UBC history), 1,276 yards rushing and 65 total touchdowns (55 passing and 10 rushing) to rank among the school’s most prolific offensive players of all-time.
He also played professionally in Europe with the Vienna Vikings — including a stint as player-coach — before returning to the Lower Mainland to coach first at SFU (offensive co-ordinator, head coach) and then at UBC (head coach).
Olson joins the staff of Rams’ coach Khari Joseph, who took the helm in Langley earlier this month.