Jim or Jimmie as he usually was referred to in the newspapers was a coach or manager from 1934 to 1954. His first coaching job was with the intermediate girls team UCT Vics. He and manager Stew MacPherson had immediate success as the team won the league championship in 1934 and 1935. When the league folded after the 1935 season, Jimmie formed a new team, St. Boniface Athletics, and entered it in a new senior league. Under his leadership the team won championships in 1936, 1937, 1939, 1944, 1945 and 1948. The colourful field general had the second longest tenure as a coach/manager in women’s ball next to 2002 Hall of Fame inductee John Shaley of CUAC Blues. McKenzie married his star catcher Bea Hall, who was inducted as an athlete in 2002, and Jimmie’s St. Boniface teams from 1944-1948 were inducted in the team category in 2003. He passed away in 1981.