Coach

Mary Jayne Rashotte

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 14th, 2019

Mary Jayne Rashotte has been involved in figure skating for her entire life. After skating for 10 years with the Brockville Club. She started coaching in 1974 at the age of 17. Since then, she has coached for clubs in Alexandria Bay, Brockville, Perth, Spencerville, Athens, Cardinal, Morrisburg, and Prescott until retiring after 44 years in 2018. Along with coaching seven days a week for three clubs on numerous occasions in the span. Mary Jayne has served on the Executive of the Prescott Club. Mary Jayne won a Community Leadership Award in 2018. She has coached hundreds of skaters, including Canadian Championship Alaine Chatrand and Matthew Markel. She always brought a positive enthusiasm of energy, and a concentration on the basics to her young pupils in wanting them to have fun with skating.

Morley Hunt

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 11th, 2004

Morley Hunt began his sports career in the tiny county community of Escott. Hockey was played on natural ice ponds, and softball was played in farmers’ fields. His hockey career has spanned over 50 years. He is known as a smooth skater and as an excellent playmaker, who was sought out by many teams in the area. He played senior “A” hockey for the Kingston Aces and the Syracuse Stars. He later played and still plays old-timers hockey, participating in many international tournaments and winning a gold medal at the 2003 Ontario Senior Games.

Morley was also an excellent softball player, pitcher, catcher, shortstop and was the playing coach for the Escott Bombers. Later in life, Morley took up golf and managed to bring his handicap down to single digits. Morley has also refereed and coached in the O.D.M.H.A. and the B.M.H.A.

Norm Fortier

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame June 13, 1997.

A guiding force in Minor Hockey in Prescott for more than 30 years. Norman Fortier has been involved in all aspects of the game.

After his playing days were over, he still maintained a keen interest in the game. Behind the bench he enjoyed tremendous success. Coaching a Bantam Team to the ODHA Finals. Later he followed with ODHA Championships with the Prescott Midgets in 1958-59.

His crowning achievements were consecutive ODHA Juvenile Titles in 1960-61 and 1961-62.

A founding father of the Prescott Minor Hockey Club Norm has left an indelible mark upon Prescott through his tireless efforts on behalf on Minor Hockey.

Pat Sheahan

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 12th, 2015

Pat Sheahan has enjoyed football since his quarterback days with the BCI Red Rams in the 1970’s. He played the offensive line at Concordia University and earned two free agent tryouts with the Edmonton Eskimos in the early 1980’s.

He began coaching after that. Winning a Vanier Cup Championship with McGill in 1987. He was the Head Coach for 11 successful years with Concordia before going to Queen’s University as its Head Coach in 2000, winning a second Vanier Cup in 2009. He is the longest-serving football coach in a Canadian university.

He was named Coach of the Year on three occasions while winning the Frank Tindall Coaching Award in 2008. Hw was inducted into the BCI Hall of Excellence in 2003.

Phil Kall

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 15th, 2012

Phil Kall has organized and coached sports at the minor level in Brockville for more than 40 years, starting in the 1970s. The former Sports Editor at the Recorder and Times, coached baseball and teamed up with Jim Loucks to form a dynamic duo at the Atom Hockey League Level. He was also heavily involved in organizing the Roger Ladouceur Memorial Aton Hockey Tournament in Brockville.

Always believing in providing an opportunity for kids to enjoy sports. Phil Kall has been an important advisor to young coaches, always willing to volunteer his experience and expertise to help out. He has been a wonderful mentor for hundreds of young athletes.

Ramona Braganza

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 14th, 2019

Ramona Braganza was an energetic gymnast growing up in Brockville, and she used those skills to become a professional cheerleader with the Toronto Argos for three years and the Oakland Raiders for 10 years through the 1980s. She has competed in numerous fitness competitions. Been featured in fitness magazines and has been a professional fitness instructor for more than 25 years.

In Hollywood, Ramona became the fitness trainer for actress Jessica Alba for 12 years and is working with a number of television and movie stars. She is regarded as one of the top personal trainers in the entertainment industry. Ramona has worked to empower women through fitness in Canada, the United States and India.

Roger Hodgkinson

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 11th, 1993

Rodger won two O.A.S.A. Junior titles as a member of the Brockville Diggers (1963-64). Roger was a pitcher in the K.A.S.A., U.C.F.L., Brockville City League, Dundas League and Ottawa Metro League. He played for Gatineau, Quebec in the Canadian Championships in 1968.

Picked up by the Winnipeg Canadians to play in the 1968 World Championships in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Rodger pitched three wins in helping Winnipeg win the silver medal and hit a home run to drive in the Winnipeg run in the title game. Roger had his own 5 man touring softball team called the Ambassadors. In five games, Roger had 70 strikeouts in 34 innings and threw 2 one-hitters and 2 no-hitters. Roger Hodgkinson – a complete ball player, coach and manager.

Roger Ladouceur

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 12, 1998

You could always count on Roger Ladouceur. For more than two decades, he was involved as a Coach and Executive Member with the Brockville Minor Hockey Association. He was a successful Coach at all levels. He served on a number of committees. But his favourite was looking after the minor hockey finances, working as the treasurer in the 1970s and 1980s. The annual 1000 Islands Atom Hockey Tournament was renamed in his memory. Viewed as tough but fair, he also coached the Brockville Braves of the CJHL in 1979-1980. Fielding a team of mostly local players.

Along with hockey, he coached Legion minor boys baseball and volunteered as an umpire in the Senior Little League. He died of cancer in 1991.

Ron “Old Coach” Baker

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 13th, 2014

While Ron Baker was a good athlete in his younger days, his biggest contribution to local sports has been in volunteering. Along with coaching minor ball in Spencerville and minor soccer in Prescott. Run Baker developed a hockey beginners program for South Grenville Minor Hockey Association and has run it for 42 years. Introducing over a thousand young girls and boy’s to hockey. He has been actively involved with organizing, mentoring and coaching in the SGMH program for years. His contributions to minor sports have been recognized with honours at the local. Provincial and national levels, he won the 3M Coaches’ Award in Brockville in 1990.

Ron Hungerford

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 15th, 2001

In 1976, Ron Hungerford arrived in Brockville from Toronto and immediately revitalized cross-country along with track and field in Leeds and Grenville high schools. In his impressive 25-year coaching career with TISS, the energetic and knowledgeable Hungerford coached the Pirates to an incredible number of LGSSAA, EOSSAA and All-Ontario Championships. He was also the founder of the highly-regarded TISS International Track Meet. Hungerford’s philosophy was encouraging his students to strive for personal excellence in whatever they did.

He was honoured in 1993 and 1996 with prestigious leadership in sports awards by the Ontario Athletic Association. He retired in 2001 to the golf course.