Ron Campbell
Although Ron Campbell was a top-notch swimmer during his competitive days and a member of Canada’s national team for four years — he won the senior nationals three times in the 100 m breaststroke and was ranked in the top 20 in the world — it was as a builder with the Cambridge Aquajets swim […]
Marg Oliveira and Ernie Overland
A joint induction, Ernie Overland and Marg Oliveira have been mainstays with the Cambridge Speed Skating Club for the better part of four decades. Both got started when their children joined the club. Overland coached with the club from 1982 to 2022, helping develop and nurture some of the nation’s leading speed skaters, including three […]
Cambridge Cubs Peewees 2019
In 2018 the Cambridge Cubs Minor Peewees captured the Ontario AAA championship and followed up with the 2019 13U Baseball Canada National Championship. They did it with a core group of players that had been together since Rookie Ball. At the Ontario Playdowns at St. Thomas in 2019 the Cubs outlasted a field of 22 […]
Jacob Hespeler Hawks Football 2018
The 2018 Jacob Hespeler Hawks football team capped off a memorable, and undefeated, season by capturing all-Ontrio OFSAA honours, their first-ever provincial high school team title, and doing it in convincing style, beating the Ganonoque Trojans 48-0 in the Central Bowl in Ottawa. The Hawks, coached by Greg White, Dave Stoddart, Josh Pirie, Anthony Maggiacomo, […]
Noah Brusso ‘Tommy Burns’
Standing at just 5’7″, Tommy Burns is the shortest heavyweight champion in history. Moreover, only Bob Fitzsimmons weighed less in a world heavyweight title fight than Burns. Born to Frederick and Sofa Brusso on June 17, 1881, on a farm six miles from Hanover, Ontario, in a little log cabin just across the road from […]
Jacqueline Gaudet
For Jacqueline Gaudet, playing ringette with her sister Jennifer was always a highlight in a career that had many highlights. Along the way Jackie became one of the most outstanding players in the world. With her induction into the Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame, she and sister Jennifer join their father Glen as multiple-time inductees, […]
Jennifer Gaudet
Jennifer Gaudet started playing ringette at the age of six when she was living in Edmonton. “I was at an Edmonton Oilers hockey game with my dad (Glen) and they demonstrated ringette at intermission.” It was the first exposure to the sport for both father and daughter. “Dad, I want to play that.” And that’s […]
Becky Gough and Mark Rowsom
In January 1980 Becky Gough and Mark Rowsom, a Comber, Ontario native (born 1959) were crowned Canadian National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champions. Indeed, the championships that year were a showcase for the Preston Figure Skating Club; clubmates Tim Mills and Mary Jo Fedy placed second and Lyndon Johnston and Janice Shompe were third. But […]
Jacqueline Brown
Jacqueline Brown, later given the moniker “Downtown Jackie Brown,” took to skis at 18 months and never looked back. Skiing was the family sport. Born in Chatham, Ontario, her family (father Peter and mother Donna)—she has two brothers, Jonathan and Jeffrey—relocated to Ontario from Quebec and then to Cambridge. “She went to Chicopee Ski Club,” […]
Denise Benning & Lyndon Johnston
The 1970s and 1980s were the glory years for the Preston Figure Skating Club and few pairs teams rose as high on the international stage as Denise Benning and Lyndon Johnston. Indeed, the pair achieved results at the World Figure Skating Championships that few Canadian pairs teams have bettered. Their pairs partnership came about at […]