OSHAWA, Ont. – Lesley Hatt (Balson), Tracey Michaud, Jimmy Kuzmanovski and Becky Tranter are set to be celebrated this fall as the newest inductees into the Durham College Sports Hall of Fame.

The hall officially opened in the spring of 1997 in order to recognize the significant achievements and accomplishments of student-athletes, coaches and builders from Durham College. As of 2023, there have been 51 individuals and nine teams inducted.

Lesley Hatt (Balson) played for the Lords in women's softball for two years, helping the team to win OCAA gold medals in 1997 and 1998.

In her first season, Balson led the team to a 9-1 record in regular season play and an impressive 16-4 record overall. In 36 at-bats across the 10 league games, Balson made contact for 12 hits and scored 12 runs, averaging .333 at the plate. Her next season was even better than the last, scoring 13 runs in 10 games as the Lords went a perfect 12-0 in conference competition and 20-1 overall.

Balson cleaned up on the awards front, taking home league all-star, championship all-star and championship MVP awards from the OCAA. She would also be named the college's women's softball rookie and player of the year at the athletic banquet in 1998. Lesley was named to the OCAA's all-millennium team in 2008 and later inducted into the OCAA Hall of Fame in 2009.

Tracey Michaud competed for the women's soccer team for three seasons from 1993 until 1995. The program saw success during these years, winning their second OCAA medal with a bronze in 1993. The Lords accumulated a 10-5-3 record in conference play and a 21-11-5 overall record through three seasons.

Michaud scored five goals in six games in her first season, before averaging one goal per game through her second and third seasons to finish her career with 17 goals in 18 games. In Michaud's final season, she earned an OCAA league all-star award and became the second player in program history to be named a CCAA All-Canadian. At the time that she retired from collegiate soccer, Michaud was third on the list of all-time goal scorers at Durham College.

Jimmy Kuzmanovski was a men's soccer player at Durham for four seasons from 1997 through 2000. The team proved to be very difficult to beat during this stretch, putting up a 29-7-0 combined record during the regular season and went 51-15-0 overall.

The men's soccer team won its fourth OCAA gold medal in program history in his freshman season and placed fourth at the CCAA national championship in 1997. They would return to the podium in 1999, earning bronze at the OCAA and CCAA championships. Kuzmanovski is one of the program's most prolific all-time goal scorers, scoring 21 times in 26 matches. Kuzmanovski graduated as the third highest scorer in men's soccer at Durham and still holds that spot in history to this day.

He earned a number of awards in 1999, including OCAA central east scoring champion, league all-star and a CCAA All-Canadian before being named Durham's MVP in men's soccer and male athlete of the year.

Kuzmanovski continued to play at a high level following his career, playing for the Oshawa Flames and the Mississauga Olympians of the semi-professional Canadian Professional Soccer League. His career included a loan stint to the Toronto Lynx of the USL A-League, a former professional league in the CONCACAF system.

Becky Tranter played women's volleyball for the Lords in four seasons from 1999 through 2003. A two-time OCAA medalist, Tranter led the Lords to a bronze medal in 2000, earning a wild card berth to nationals prior to winning the program's third gold medal in history during the 2002 season and securing another spot at the CCAA national championship. Becky was named the player of the game in the OCAA championship's gold medal match.

Over four seasons, the teams featuring Tranter went 45-6 in conference play and 72-31 across all competitions, placing top three in the east division each year. In 48 career games played, Tranter played all positions across the net, most notably as the setter, and saw the floor in 141 sets, recording 121 kills, 48 service aces and 24 blocks.

Along with representing the Lords in back-to-back years at the OCAA all-star games during her first two seasons, Tranter was also named the Durham women's volleyball rookie of the year before winning the MVP award for the college in the following year. In 2002, Becky won the coaches award and was the recipient of the inaugural Bonnie Ginter-Brown Leadership Award – annually presented to the overall male and female athletes who best exemplify outstanding leadership in the pursuit of excellence. To close out her career, the three-time captain again took home the Bonnie Ginter-Brown Leadership Award and was honoured with the four-year athletic career award. Tranter also received OCAA All-Academic Awards in each of her four years as a student-athlete.

Off the court, Tranter was the Student Association (SA) Vice President of Student Athletics and President. With one of her focuses of promoting health and wellness on campus, she led intramural programming, suited up as 'Louis' the Lord on numerous occasions to cheer on fellow athletes, took part in organizing the CCAA men's volleyball championship and advocated for athletic facilities including the building of the Campus Tennis and Ice Centres.

The four former athletes will officially be inducted in an invitational ceremony this November.