Victoria Moors
Coached by longtime Cambridge coach Elvira Saadi, Victoria Ashley Moors represented Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the same Games in which middle-distance runner Nathan Brannen, also from Cambridge, represented Canada in the 1500 metres. Her younger sister Brooklyn, also coached by Saadi, would go on to compete at the 2017 World Championships […]
James Law
When Cambridge’s Jim Law was inducted into the Ontario Lawn Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 2018 under the Legacy category, he was widely acknowledged as one of the finest lawn bowlers in OLBA history. Law was born in Galt in 1912 and attended GCI but left before graduation. The story of his departure from […]
Randy Steinman
Preston native Randy Steinman spent 40 years in radio and television, as an announcer, sportscaster and news reporter. He was a colleague or classmate of some other notable Preston High School broadcasting alumni including Brenda Irving (CBC) and Jeff Hutcheson (CTV). “When I was growing up, Preston consisted of about 12,000 people,” said Steinman, who […]
Tim Brent
Tim Brent grew up in Cambridge playing hockey and baseball and was almost as good a ball player as he was a hockey player. But hockey won out. When starting to skate at the age of two at the old Hespeler Arena, his parents Ian and Rhonda recall him getting frustrated his first time on […]
Mark Lee
Growing up in Ottawa, Mark Lee developed an early interest in radio, thanks largely to his father, who was a radio program director and announcer. Mark would often tag along with his father. But he also developed an early love for sports — one of his boyhood idols was Roughrider QB Russ Jackson —, and after his […]
Paul Ross
At the time of his induction into the Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame, Preston native Paul Ross was in his 79th year and still actively playing hockey. That about sums up the sport that has been his lifelong passion. During those nearly eight decades Paul has played a pivotal role in the sporting life of […]
Cambridge Ringette Turbos 2015-2017
For three years, from 2015 to 2017, the Cambridge Ringette Turbos had a remarkable run, winning three consecutive national championships. During those three years a dozen players carried over from year to year and formed the nucleus of those championship teams. The 12 players included: Taylor Campbell, Melissa Breslin, Jenna Dupuis, Sydney and Paige Nosal, […]
Bob McCullough
When it comes to baseball, Cambridge has produced a number of talented players and even a few Major Leaguers – take Rob Ducey and Scott Thorman, for example – and several national team members, but as of 2009, there has only been one city native who played for Canada’s national baseball team at the Olympic […]
Bob Howison
Growing up in Windsor, Ontario, Bob Howison attended Walkerville Collegiate where he played football and basketball, as well as track and field. “I didn’t play many sports when I was younger,” he recalls, but it was in senior public and high school when he began a lifelong attachment to sport. It’s been a part of […]
Josh Wayper
‘Josh’ Wayper was a longtime and well-known Hespeler resident and hotel owner, but his biggest claim to fame was his skill as a marksman. Born in Durham, England, in 1858, he later owned the Queen’s Hotel in Hespeler where his many shooting trophies and stuffed animals were displayed. He was also a co-founder of the […]