Sports Hall of Fame to honour five new inductees

Don attended high school at Sir Winston Churchill where he played football, basketball, track. He was awarded Athlete of the Year, Bulldog of the Year, Basketball player of the year and Track Athlete of the Year while at the school. He captained the 1968 Sir Winston Churchill Basketball team when they won the St. Catharines Standard basketball tournament for the first time.
 

Don’s Bowling career has been award winning:

He represented Niagara at the Provincials 28 times, on four teams that won the provincial championships. He won two gold and one silver at the Nationals. He was twice named bowler of the year in Ontario on the team that won the Senior Provincials. He also won the Senior Provincial singles championship. In 1995, he was voted the top 90 bowler of all time in Canada. In 1999, he was inducted into the Ontario Bowlers Hall of Fame. In 2010, he was inducted into the Niagara Five Pin Hall of Fame.

1959 - Named St. Catharines Collegiate’s Novice Oarsman of the Year.

1959 - Named St. Catharines Collegiate’s Senior Athlete of the Year.

1960 - Captain of the St. Catharines Collegiate Tricolour Football Team.

1960 - Won the Canada Dry Award as one of Ontario’s Outstanding Schoolboy Football Linesmen.

1960 - Represented Canada in rowing in a Four at the Olympics in Rome, Italy.

He won three U.S National Rowing Championships in an Eight. Throughout his career he won Henley rowing championship medals in Fours and Eights.

1968 - Olympic trials rowing champion in the Men’s Eight.

1968 – Represented Canada in rowing in the Men’s Eight at the Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.

2014 – Inducted to Team of the Decade for the 1960’s University of Guelph Redman Football.

As a teacher, Clay coached rowing for many years at West Park Secondary, Ridley, and St. Catharines Collegiate, and coached football at St. Catharines Collegiate.

Mike played varsity hockey as a high school student at Ridley College, including as Captain in his last year at the school.
 

He played four years on the Cornell Big Red Varsity Hockey Team, where they were three-time Ivy League Champions, made three NCAA tournament appearances, one Frozen Four appearance in Buffalo in 2003, two-time ECAC Champions, and twice ranked number one in the nation. He led the NCAA in short-handed goals in his senior year at Cornell as well as being named Assistant-Captain in his senior year.
 

Mike played in the AHL for the Cleveland Barons from 2005-06, the Worcester Sharks from 2006-07 and 2007-08, and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in 2008-09. During his time in the AHL, he led the team in scoring and was an AHL All-Star.
 

He played for the San Jose Sharks during the 2007-08 season and played his first NHL game against the New York Islanders on Feb. 18, 2008. He played for the New York Islanders in 2008-09, where he played 11 games for the Islanders recording one goal and four assists.

Mike went on to play professional hockey for seven seasons in Europe. He represented Team Canada in the Spengler Cup in 2010-11.

Jane was a member of the Canadian junior national and senior national rowing teams between 1978-88, including three Olympic teams, 1980, 1984 and 1988. Her achievements in rowing are numerous:
 

- Won bronze at the Junior World Rowing Championships in the women’s Eight in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1978.

- Was a gold medal winner at the Junior World Rowing Championships in the women’s Eight in Russia in 1979.

- At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Scotland, she won gold in the women’s 4+.

- In 1986, at the World Rowing Championships in England, she won bronze in the women’s 4+.

- She won silver in the women’s coxed Four in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
 

In 1992, she received the “Award of Merit” from Rowing Canada Aviron for her contributions to the sport of rowing in Canada.

Bob found a love for the game of basketball first as a high school player and later a Junior Varsity player at Queen’s University.
 

In 1992, Miller was a founding member of St. Catharines CYO Basketball Rebels with Brian Finora and Ron Brady. CYO Basketball Rebels has operated House leagues for boys and girls aged six to 17 with Select travel teams, some of whom have been provincial champions. He served as the President of the CYO Rebels for over 25 years, spending pretty much every Saturday in a gym from October to March as a Convenor and volunteer referee.
 

He was the coach of several Select teams, boys and girls, including proud moments as head coach of the 1996 Atom Boys Ontario A Champions and assistant coach of the All Ontario Bronze medal for that team the following year.
 

He is the recipient of the Jack Gatecliff and Jimmy Rose awards for his contributions to local basketball and youth sports.
 

Bob is thankful for the work and dedication of hundreds of volunteer coaches, convenors, game officials, concession operators and many others in the Rebels program. He is particularly thankful to his wife Cathy Carmichael for all of her work throughout the years. She took on the accounting, banking, running concessions at game venues, mailing, phone calls and more.