Ilario Enrico "Eli" Pasquale (August 24, 1960 – November 4, 2019) was a Canadian basketball player and two-time Olympian.

[3][4][8] Pasquale was the starting point guard and co-captain of this Canadian team in what was arguably Canada's greatest era of basketball.

[3][4][8] This 1984 bronze-medal game constituted the only time in 80+ years where Canada had a legitimate chance of winning an Olympic medal in basketball.

[5] In this bronze medal game was highly competitive, being tied 18 times with 12 lead changes, with Canada being within one point with less than a minute of play remaining.

[5] Pasquale played well in this crucial game in Canadian basketball history, leading Canada in points (16) and assists (5), while also obtaining 6 rebounds.

[2][3][7] In the 1983 World Student Games hosted in Edmonton, Alberta, the Canadian team won the gold medal.

[15] In the semifinals of this tournament, Canada defeated a talented US team led by future NBA legends Charles Barkley and Karl Malone.

[7] Pasquale played in the Amateur Athletic Union for Seattle and the Los Angeles summer pro league.

[1][8][9] Pasquale is believed to be the first athlete in all of Canadian university sports history to win five consequtive national championships.

[1][4][8] In 1984, he was awarded the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as CIAU's outstanding men's basketball player.

(1981, 1983, 1984)[14] Besides Pasquale, only five other athletes in Canada basketball history have received the CIAU national tournament MVP twice: Mickey Fox, Osvaldo Jeanty, Michael Smart, Tyson Hinz and Philip Scrubb.

[7][16] Besides Pasquale, only five other athletes in basketball were four-time Canada West first team all-stars: Karl Tilleman, J.D.