Kali (Bogias) Parsons
In 1983 Cambridge’s Kali Bogias won the world powerlifting championship in Adelaide, Australia with a vocal cheering section comprised of Aussie relatives. Bogias played several sports in high school – Glenview Park – in the mid-1970s, including basketball, volleyball and badminton, and during that time she trained with weights three times a week. But she […]
Lillian Burke
Lillian Burke’s climb to the champion- ship level in disabled track and field was an extremely rapid one. She began her athletic competition in 1975 and was a provincial record-holder by 1976. Amazingly, Lillian also became a Canadian champion that very same year. Blind in one eye and with only four per cent vision in […]
Sherry (Hawco) Delanty
Feb-. 17, 1964 – Oct. 26, 1991 She had the heart and soul of a lion and very well might have become an Olympic medalist had it not been for the Canadian boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. Hawco was a dynamo in gymnastics circles, reaching the pinnacle of the sport in Canada in 1979 […]
Normie Himes
April 13, 1903 – September 14, 1958 Perhaps the greatest all-round athlete to come out of Cambridge, Galt’s Normie Himes could do it all. A gifted hockey player, he was also an accomplished golfer and baseball player. Indeed, he was once offered a tryout by New York Giants manager John McGraw. Himes played on two […]
Verne ‘Tex’ Kaiser
September 28, 1925 – Jan. 17, 2011 All of his contemporaries were agreed that Preston native Tex Kaiser was a talented hockey player. But what would surprise some was that he was just as good a baseball player, and perhaps even better. Kaiser, many suggest, could have made it to the majors if he had […]
Harris Legg
March 18, 1911 – Feb. 7, 1996 Regarded as one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of Galt, Harris Legg could do it all on skates. He began as a speed skater, honing his skills on the Grand River ice in winter and at Galt Arena Gardens, and rose to the top, qualifying […]
Carl ‘Lefty’ Liscombe
May 17, 1915 – February 23, 2004 As a kid Carl Liscombe played hockey and skated on the Grand River ice above the dam, and often played with, and against, a young girl named Hilda Ranscombe. Ranscombe went on to become arguably the greatest female hockey player in history, while Liscombe became a star with the […]
Joel McClintock
Mississauga native Joel McClintock, based out of Puslinch Lake, reached a pinnacle few ever attain when, in 1979, he won the World Waterski Championship. Not surprisingly, he was named Cambridge athlete of the year for his athletic prowess. McClintock has had a long history as a competitor on the national team. He skied on the […]
Ab Morton
October 15, 1914 – Sept. 17, 2011 Galt’s Ab Morton raced with, and often beat, the greatest distance runners of his day. A member of the Galt Track Club and a good friend and training partner of the famed Scotty Rankine, he reached his peak in the mid-1940s. One year Morton was runnerup for the Canadian […]
Robert ‘Scotty’ Rankine
January 6, 1909 – January 10, 1995 Scotty Rankine has the honour of being the only athlete from Cambridge to be awarded the coveted title of Canada’s male athlete of the year. He won the award in 1935, just a year before he competed in his second Olympic Games. Rankine, a Scottish native who came […]