Steve McKenna
Steve McKenna went to Galt Collegiate Institute and played minor hockey in town with the Cambridge Hawks of the OMHA, but he started thinking he might have a future in the sport when he played for the Cambridge Jr. B Winter Hawks in 1991-92. The next year the six-foot six-incher went west to play for […]
Cambridge Winterhawks 2005-07
As the 2005 Midwestern Jr. B hockey season began, the Cambridge Winter Hawks had high expectations. They were coming off a third-place finish the previous year and GM Peter Brill had assembled a stellar cast of players. Indeed, not since the glory years of near the end of the 20th century had the Winter Hawks […]
Southwood SS Basketball 2007
2007 OFSAA AAA Basketball Champions When Rob Baird’s senior boys basketball team captured the OFSAA championship in the spring of 2009, it was the first all-Ontario basetball title ever won by a Cambridge high school. Their 39-37 win over Windsor Catholic Central was one of the biggest wins in any sport by a Cambridge high […]
Casie Coleman
Casie Coleman, a four-time recipient of Canada’s trainer of the year honours – the only female to ever win the O’Brien Award – is a Victoria native who now resides in Cambridge. She’s made a name for herself across Canada and the U.S., having trained nearly 1,500 winning horses, and along the way has become […]
Glen Gaudet
Glen Gaudet started his long association with ringette in 1986 in Edmonton, and has been at it ever since. And the impact he’s had on the sport in those nearly 30 years has been immense. With a hockey background, the Winnipeg native had moved to Edmonton in 1982, and within a few years started coaching […]
Brenda Irving
For decades, her broadcasting career has taken her around the world, but she still considers Cambridge home. Growing up in Preston, Brenda Irving grew up in an athletic community — she fondly recalls the Preston Jesters hockey club — which was good preparation for what would come later. “Sports has always been a huge part […]
Jeff McClintock
A Mississauga native, Jeff McClintock was part of the first generation of McClintocks from Puslinch Lake to establish the family name as a force to be reckoned with on the world water ski stage. It began in the late 1960’s when Joel, Jeff and Judy emerged onto the forefront of the national and international water […]
Jim Armstrong
Victoria B.C. native James P. Armstrong was a highly-regarded and successful able-bodied curler for much of his career until a car accident and bad knees forced him to quit. The accident, in 2003, literally changed the game for Armstrong. He’d already had 18 knee operations — usually after curling season ended, so it wouldn’t interfere […]
Dan Donahue
As a youngster, Hespeler native Dan Donahue, who grew up near the playing fields of Forbes Park and Central School, would catch lacrosse balls his father hurled at him. In those early days he learned to put his body in front of the ball and to make the catch, because if he missed, it usually meant […]
Home “Spike” McConnell
Galt’s Homer ‘Spike’ McConnell, who worked for years at Union Gas, was a fixture in local sports for a couple of decades. McConnell served on the Galt Minor Hockey executive beginning in 1971, and continued until 1979. He was a bantam travel hockey coach for five years, and from 1977 to 1979 served on the […]