Cambridge Hornets 1982-83
Allan Cup Champions 1982-83 The Cambridge Hornets began the 1982-83 season with high hopes. It had been 10 years since the Galt Hornets became the Cambridge Hornets, following the amalgama- tion of Galt, Preston and Hespeler, and the team was hungry for another Allan Cup. They had won Cups in 1968-69 and again in 1970-71. […]
Benita Rope
Born 1938 – January 22, 2016 Benita Rope and husband Don were an athletic couple when they arrived in Galt in the late 1950s and within a decade – 1972 – would found the Cambridge Kips gymnastics club, a club that has produced several Olympians in the decades since. Benita, a native of Sault Ste. […]
Brian Anderson
Simply put, Brian Anderson was one of the finest all-round athletes Cambridge has produced, competing in one of sport’s unheralded but most demanding athletic endeavours – the decathlon. As a high school track and field athlete, he was a standout, winning the 1970 district 11 senior boys individual champion- ship, and advancing to the OFSAA […]
Jason Mulholland
In the fall of 1990 Jason Mulholland was the star player on the talented Galt Collegiate senior boys volleyball team and was a big reason the Ghosts went undefeated (54-0) and captured the all- Ontario OFSAA championship that season. That year he was named to the Fabulous 50 Preps list by Volleyball Magazine. In the […]
Cambridge Winterhawks 1999-00
Sutherland Cup Champions 1999-2000 When the Cambridge Winter Hawks advanced to the all-Ontario Sutherland Cup finals in the spring of 2000, they had already made it further than many had expected. True, they were a Peter Brill (GM) club, and had coach Jeff Brick, who had stressed the importance of teamwork all season, behind the […]
Bob Cunningham
June 27, 1938 – June 6, 2020 Even into his seventies, Cambridge’s Bob Cunningham has a difficult time trying to place one sport above the others. He loved them all. And, for more than two decades, he and his good friend, Basil Ramsay helped coach and manage many minor sports team in the city. His […]
Bob Hadfield
July 15, 1935 – June 24, 2001 Bob Hadfield spent most of his life in and around Dickson Park, playing or coaching baseball. The Galt native was a talented player, in both hockey and baseball, in his youth, but it was as a coach that he earned the distinction that would one day see him […]
Elvira Saadi
When Elvira Saadi came to Canada, she had no idea she would one day become head coach at the Cambridge Kips gymnastics club, the club that Don and Benita Rope had founded in Cambridge. Saadi, a two-time Olympic gold medalist (1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal), had befriended fellow Olympian Patti Rope at the Montreal Olympics in […]
Kurtis MacGillivary
Cambridge’s Kurtis MacGillivary moved into some fast company when he went to Queensland, Australia to train with one of the top swimming programs in the world. Within two years of his move he had broken the oldest Canadian men’s long-course swim record in the books at the Australian Olympic swimming trials in Sydney. MacGillivary beat […]
Michelle Menzies
Pairs skater Michelle Menzies was a member of the National Pairs Training Centre in Preston, and was coached by Kerry Leitch. Menzies (born April 28, 1972 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) competed in pairs, most notably with partner Jean Michel Bombardier. With Bombardier, the pair won national titles in 1995 and 1996. Menzies emerged on the national figure […]