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 […]
Galt Midget Hockey 1983
When the Galt major midgets captured the 1983 provincial championship at Galt Arena, they ended a drought of nearly half a century and entered the history books by becoming the first minor hockey club from Galt to win an all-Ontario title. The provincial finale was dramatic, going the seven-game limit before the Galt Mr. Optician […]
2006 Chiefs Midget Lacrosse
Cambridge Minor Lacrosse was in its fourth season of operation in 1986 when the Cambridge Chiefs midget club captured the all-Ontario championship. It was a first for the new association, a hark back to glory days of a previous century when local clubs won provincial honours. Under the direction of head coach Rob Steffler and […]