Jim Vickery

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 10th, 2011

Jim Vickery has organized and coached sports at the elementary school, high school and club basketball level for more than 40 years.

Starting in 1970, the Athens native coached every sport imaginable at Toniata and Vanier Public Schools. Also, starting the Burger King Track – Meet until he retired in 1998. He began coaching high school basketball in 1983 in Athens. Alternating from there to Brockville Collegiate until 2011.

He has coached basketball for the Brockville Blazers and the Brockville Blues. He was honoured as the first recipient of the lifetime coaching award by the Brockville Sports Hall of Fame in 1993. He has been a mentor to Young Coaches and thousands of young athletes.