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Contents 2011–2012

Premier’s Message / Chairman’s Message ...... 2 Bringing the Hall’s Artifacts to the World Online (by Tinisha Stilling) ...... 3 Cover Photos Education Program Having a Positive Impact ...... 6 2011 Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Team Jones 1999-2004 (by Joel Jacobson) ...... 10 Fame Inductees: Will Njoku (by Joel Jacobson) ...... 16 Top (l to r): Mike Scarola, Cam Steve Pound (by Joel Jacobson) ...... 20 Russell Middle: Carolyn Savoy, Will Njoku, Cam Russell (by Willy Palov)...... 28 Steve Pound Mike Scarola (by Joel Jacobson) ...... 34 Bottom: Team Jones 1999-2004, Hubert Earle (by Joel Jacobson) ...... 38 Hubert Earle Carolyn Savoy (by Katie Wooler) ...... 42 Stellar Inductees Enter Hall in 2010 ...... 46 Induction Procedure Meets with Success ...... 50 Past Chairs of Hall of Fame ...... 51 Our Mission / Our Vision ...... 52

Editor: Joel Jacobson

Contributors: Joel Jacobson, Willy Palov, Tinisha Stilling, Katie Wooler

Cover Design: Paul Birmingham, Studio11

Magazine Photography: Layla Calvi, Nick Pearce, Hall of Fame staff, Hall of Fame archives, Inductee personal collections

Marketing Assistance: Karolyn Sevcik, Shane Mailman

Layout and Design: Paula Yochoff, Sport Nova Scotia

Sponsorship and Advertising: Karolyn Sevcik Contact: Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame Printing: Halcraft Print Ltd. 1800 Argyle Street, Suite 446 Halifax, NS B3J 3N8 Tel: (902) 421-1266 Fax: (902) 425-1148 E-mail: [email protected] www.nsshf.com

1 Premier’s Message

n behalf of the Province of Nova Scotia, I’m pleased to congratulate the athletes, sports teams and builders being inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. O Our province has a rich history in sports, featuring individuals and teams who have made significant contributions to the culture and heritage of Nova Scotia. I believe it’s important to teach the next generation of athletes about their predecessors so that they can continue the honoured tradition of sportsmanship and competition. The Future Hall of Famers education campaign is a fantastic program that has achieved great success with students across Nova Scotia. By sharing the true life stories of our sports heroes, the program demonstrates that initial failures are learning experiences and that to accomplish their dreams, they have to stay the course. Students can also learn more about our sports heritage at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, which features a vast collection of sports memorabilia and fun facts for everyone to enjoy. I encourage everyone to check it out! Sincerely,

Darrell Dexter Premier of Nova Scotia

Chairman’s Message

n behalf of the Board Directors, I wish to welcome and congratulate this year’s Inductees to The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. You are now members of a sports hall that takes Opride in educating, entertaining and inspiring others to reach their dreams. 2011 has been an exciting year. The Induction Awards Ceremonies caps off another great year of attendance with 80,000 plus visitors to the Hall. The Future Hall of Famers education program has been expanded to include a full-time education coordinator who works with existing and future Hall of Famers to share life stories, motivate and inspire youth across Nova Scotia. NSSHF has completed another successful year, developing a five-year strategic plan, updating by-laws and strengthening the collection management program. We are in the process of cataloguing and digitizing the entire collection of over 7,000 items to adhere to national museum standards and to have the collection available to the public online. Preserving those great stories and achievements of our sport heroes has remained the priority of NSSHF. We couldn’t do it without the generous support of our friends of the Hall, corporate sponsors, staff and volunteers. Sincerely,

Floyd R. Gaetz Chair of the Board

2 Bringing the Hall’s Artifacts to the World Online by Tinisha Stilling

he Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is working on under “Collections”. Visitors can peruse information on an exciting digitization project. A major goal of everything sport-related, from equipment to trophies to Tthe project is to make Nova Scotian sport heritage athletes and builders. more accessible to the public. That way, all Nova Scotians, The Hall of Fame is part of the Association of Nova Scotia no matter where they live, will have better access to their Museums, which is working on a new public database that is heritage online. In fact, information and photos are and will estimated to be up and running in about a year. With added be available to the whole world to study and enjoy. About and improved features, such as better genealogical research 3,000 photos of artifacts have already been put online. abilities, more photos and links to online content, including The artifact records and photographs can be accessed by videos, it will be much more user-friendly and interactive the public online through the Artifacts Canada database. than Artifacts Canada. The Hall of Fame is continuing to A link to this site is available on the Hall of Fame’s website, work hard on the project with the goal that a photograph of each artifact will be added by the time its new public database arrives. These hockey sticks represent both the early days and recent years – showing the difference between a basic Highlights of the single piece of wood stick and the modern composite improvements made stick, which rarely breaks and has more flexibility with to the collection over less weight. the last year: • Over 2,000 artifacts have been catalogued bringing the total number of artifacts in the collection to over 7,000. • Forty per cent of the collection has been photographed with the photos accessible online. • Work has started on a new public database which will The pocket watch with chain and the medallion were presented to Edward “Nedder” Healey when he won the provide the world Nova Scotia amateur boxing welterweight championship with better access to in 1922. The next year he won the Canadian title. Healey Nova Scotia’s rich fought more than 225 amateur and professional bouts, with sport heritage an ability to outwit his opponents. Never knocked off his feet, he lost only eight professional bouts. Healey was inducted to the Hall of Fame with the original class in 1980.

3 This Hall of Fame display shows the evolution of hockey sticks from the 1800s through modern day, and from wood to light and flexible material composites. The first sticks (top in picture) were carved from a single piece of wood, but by the 1930s, were made of pieces of wood laminated together, preventing them from breaking as easily while adding some flexibility. In the 1960s, players started curving their blades, giving them greater control of the puck and influencing their shots. In the 1970s, the first fibreglass sticks were made–stronger and lighter than their wooden ancestors. By the 1980s, aluminum sticks, with replacement wooden blades, were introduced and gained popularity among professional players in the 1990s. Today, both the wooden stick and aluminum stick have become rarer among pros as new composite sticks made of materials such as fibreglass and carbon fibre have become a less durable, but lighter-weight, option. The wooden stick, however, is still a less expensive alternative to composite sticks and still is a popular choice for amateur players. Below: The 116th Dartmouth Natal Day Regatta was held in August 2011, hosted by the Banook Canoe Club. The club was founded in 1903 and began holding the regatta, along with other sport events and concerts, a year later. This trophy, displayed at the Hall, was presented to the Junior Singles winner in 1907.

Above: This typewriter belonged to W.J. “Ace” Foley, a long-time sports writer and sports editor at the Halifax Chronicle Herald and Mail Star. He started his newspaper career in 1920 as a copy boy, spending, he said, as much time at the Halifax Herald as he did in school. He said in a book he wrote to commemorate 50 years as sports editor, “I’ve been in almost every nook and cranny of Nova Scotia at one time or another.” His writings promoted Nova Scotia sport and sport heritage for more than 60 years. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1982.

4 Left: This Babe Ruth Right: Phil Scott, autographed baseball sits nine-time log-rolling proudly on display at the world champion from Hall. It was signed by the Barrington, NS, wore Baseball Hall of Fame these shoes to compete member, considered the in his demanding sport. greatest of the greats, These spiked shoes were during a visit to Halifax popular in the 1960s and on August 1, 1942 (after 1970s when Scott was in his retirement from the his heyday, but today log- game) for the official rollers wear a modified opening of a recreation soccer shoe. In the past, centre for the Royal the bottoms of the shoes Canadian Navy at Wanderers Grounds. were made of a very hard That weekend, during an exhibition game between Halifax and wood and leather to prevent the spikes from pulling through. Today, Toronto, The Babe stepped to the plate and hit a few pitches for the the wooden bottoms have been replaced by plastic and rubber. Scott 5,000 spectators. It has always been rumoured that he hit one into the was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1987. Public Gardens, probably 500 feet away. After his hitting exhibition, Left: Katie Wooler, a he tossed autographed baseballs into the crowd. museum assistant at the Former New York Yankee Babe Ruth has another tie to Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Sport Hall Raised in an orphan’s home in Baltimore, the man who developed of Fame, stands besides Ruth’s baseball skills was Cape Breton native, Brother Matthias. The a penny farthing bicycle, Babe often vacationed in Nova Scoria where he fished and played named for British coins golf. of the 19th century. With its giant front wheel and small rear wheel, the penny farthing was not the safest of vehicles, but it did make an important contribution to the development of the bicycle. Manufactured between 1870 and 1885, the penny farthing had a cult following, willing to pay approximately a month’s income for the popular bike. Clubs were formed. Cyclists competed in races, organized intercity trips, and were featured in newspapers. A new model of the penny farthing, called the “Excelsior”, manufactured in the 1880s, offered a lighter frame and other design improvements. Bicycle mania reached Halifax in the 1880’s and 1890’s and became a social trend, with groups of cyclists meeting at the Public Gardens and Point Pleasant Park for evening rides. The city’s official bicycle club was the Halifax Ramblers, which has Above: It is recorded that quoits were already being played on been reincarnated today as the Nova Scotia Ramblers Bicycle Club, McNabs Island in 1762. The ring toss like game has its origins in offering trail rides and special events. ancient Greece. The Romans brought the game to England, where Cliff Shand, an inductee in the Sport Hall of Fame for cycling, it caught on quickly. A popular game at sea, it is no surprise that it competed on a penny farthing bike as part of the Wanderers Amateur quickly made its way across the ocean to Nova Scotia. Athletic Club in the late 1880’s. Quoit rings were made of brass, copper or iron in the past. Today, the rings are often made of lighter materials, such as rope or rubber, but heavier metal rings can still be found. Tinisha Stilling is Collections Coordinator at the Nova Scotia In the photo: Brass quoit rings and a Studley Quoit Club trophy Sport Hall of Fame. In the last year, she has created a collection 1908. The Studley Quoit Club was opened in 1858 on the policy, improved the storage area, made changes to the viewing Northwest Arm, when the game was becoming extremely popular area and catalogued many of the artifacts and pictures. in Nova Scotia.

5 Education Program Having a Positive Impact

Hall of Fame Builder Bernie Chisholm speaks to a group of students about dedication and determination to become the best they can be in both athletics and life during a Hall of Fame education presentation at St. Andrews Consolidated School in Antigonish. Ken MacNeil (r), a member of the inducted Robertson softball team that won the National Midget Softball Championship in 1984, observes.

he ears of a youngster in Berwick perked up as he at 107 Foster Street, the boy called out, “That’s my house. listened to Hall of Fame Education Coordinator That’s where I live.” Leah was later told by the teacher that TLeah McInnis talk of an inductee from his home the 12-year-old boy was excited for days afterward, telling town. Burns Wesley Pierce, she told the school group, was a his friends, and anyone who would listen, that the famous distance bicycle racer in the heyday of the sport in the early cyclist lived in HIS house. 1900s. He held records in amateur and professional long- “I’ve learned through this spring and summer, speaking distance and endurance racing. When she mentioned that to more than 4,000 youngsters at schools and summer he lived very near the school, in a distinctive red brick house camps, both on their home turf and at the Hall, that you

6 can go anywhere in Nova Scotia and find a sport hero in a believing is the first step in doing, whether the person wants community,” Leah says. “Whether an athlete or builder, we to be an athlete, artist or an educator. are truly rich in sport history.” Her goal as she moves into the fall season and reaches out Leah has made presentations, with the help of Hall of Fame to schools across the province is to get more Hall of Fame member Mickey Fox and Olympic athlete Sarah Conrad, to members involved as speakers. groups throughout the province. Fox and Conrad have been “The children want to see their heroes. There’s certainly at the Tim Hortons Camp in Tatamagouche to speak with a different dynamic when they hear directly from someone children from across the region. Leah has been from one who has accomplished what these people have done in sport. end of the province to the other, showing artifacts, videos They can be very inspiring to young people.” and PowerPoint presentations from Digby to Inverness and Sydney.

Right: Olympic snowboarder Sarah Conrad (r) celebrates success with children at the Tim Hortons Camp in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. Above: During an education program presentation, Hall of Fame Sarah appeared Education Coordinator, Leah McInnis, tells a student about a as part of the Hall of Fame member overcoming difficulties to succeed in sport. Sport Hall of Fame Education “I tell the stories of (marathon runner) Johnny Miles Program. and (Paralympic gold medalist) Andrew Haley who overcame such odds to become champions. I can tell the kids are paying attention because they are wide-eyed and listening intently when I talk of these sport heroes.” She tries to make the stories inspirational, relating how there have been bumps in the road before the athletes achieved glory, how they believed in themselves to achieve (Haley lost a leg and part of a lung to cancer), and how

Right: Hall of Fame Inductee Mickey Fox shows the basketball skills that gained him entry at an education session at the Tim Hortons Camp.

77 Below: Two members of the Antigonish Boys and Girls Club try on skates during a Hall-run education program. Left, is the Starr skate that a club member tries on over her shoe. Right, a youngster tries on a Sidney Crosby replica skate.

Above: During a Hall education program at Rev. H.J. MacDonald School in Heatherton, a Grade 6 student at holds a Starr Co. skate, circa 1900. The skate is attached by laces to the bottom of a shoe or boot.

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9 Team Jones 1999-2004 Team by Joel Jacobson

10 ometimes winning a Canadian championship warrants Sinduction to a provincial sport hall of fame. Sometimes winning a world title guarantees induction to the provincial AND national sport halls of fame. When you win five Canadian championships, two World golds and a World silver to what are you entitled? Admiration, adulation, recognition as the best of the best and, of course, induction to the sport hall of fame in the province where the athlete(s) call home. The Canadian Hall is yet to come, but it will – and soon. The Jones curling team set a Canadian record that could take a Kim Kelly and Mary-Anne Arsenault guide skip Colleen Jones’ rock down the ice. while to be beaten – five championships in six years and four says the quartet had a chemistry together “but the three of in a row. Skip Colleen Jones, third Kim Kelly, second Mary- us brought out the best in Colleen. I’ve never met anyone Anne Arsenault and lead Nancy Delahunt set a standard for with a more insatiable appetite for winning than Colleen, excellence in women’s curling between 1999 and 2004 with but for her to be the best, she had to be comfortable with Canadian titles in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, plus us – and she was.” World titles in 2001 and 2004 and a World second in 2003. Nancy adds, “There was no other Colleen Jones. I never Alternates Laine Peters, Mary Sue Radford and coaches Peter saw anyone across the country like her. She taught us how to Corkum and Ken Bagnell helped ensure success. win and what it means to win.” “Their work ethic was unmatched,” says coach/psychologist Colleen reflects on her beginnings in curling. “I went to Bagnell who was with the Jones foursome from 2001 to 2005. the rink with my older sisters when I was young and loved “The amount of work, the amount of practice, set the bar hanging out and being social. After a couple of years, the for what people do in curling and in sport all over the world. sport seemed easy and I wanted more. In 1976, we went to “The girls spent a lot of time together,” he continues. “Being Junior Nationals, and didn’t do very well, but that was a taste able to live with a new set of sisters and still perform on the at that level and I wanted more of that, too.” ice is difficult. But they won Nationals four years in a row (2001-2004), which had never been done before. With two World Championships and a silver medal in four years, that On The Button kind of domination is remarkable.” Career Highlights: Colleen skipped the first of 16 Nova Scotia champion teams • Five Canadian Women’s Curling Championships at age 19 in 1978. Four years later, she became the youngest • Two World Women’s Curling Championships ever to win a Canadian curling championship. By 1999, the • One World Women’s Silver Championship pieces of the dominant team were in place. Nancy and Colleen had been friends for years and remain • Four Canadian titles in succession – record never very close. When Mary-Anne became the final piece of the topped puzzle in 1999 (Kelly was with the team from 1989), Nancy

1111 we worked hard at our relationship and developed tremendous respect for each other.” Nancy says about 2001’s win at Worlds. “I’ve known Colleen since high school and always pulled for her. This time was great. I knew she deserved it and was thrilled for her, as much as for all of us.” Winning again and again took teamwork, dedication to practise and play, even with families and work commitments. Colleen says her first win at Nationals in 1982 was huge, a breakthrough for the Atlantic Provinces. Seventeen years later, 1999, they won the Nationals (The Scotties) again. Kim Kelly (r) suggests the perfect shot to win an end as Nancy Delahunt, Mary-Anne “That was a major thrill and an amazing feeling, Arsenault and skip Colleen Jones listen to the advice. BUT it was quickly silenced by the (loss at) Worlds. We felt we had let people down and after She was second stone on that team but the next year, when we lost at Canadians in 2000, we thought 1999’s Scotties was asked to skip, Colleen readily accepted. “I wanted to throw last a fluke. But we won in 2001, and then won the Worlds, and rock. I knew I could do it and didn’t really feel the pressure.” got on a ride (four Nationals in a row) that was very special.” She admits that she was practising a lot – more than anyone She confesses winning four in a row resulted from a lot else – and that built the confidence that she could make of breaks, things going the right way each game for a week whatever shot faced her. and then in playoffs, every roll, every draw, double takeout, Kim Kelly has several defining curling moments. “The runback, going perfectly. first was winning that first Canadian title in 1999. Then the “You look for consistency, but it’s hard to do,” she says. Worlds in 2001 and the third, the Continental Cup of 2002.” She admits there was constant pressure to win. “Canadians expect performance because we ARE Canada (and it’s a Joel Jacobson is a former columnist with the Halifax Chronicle Canadian game). At the Worlds in 1999, there was so much Herald and now a freelance journalist, guest speaker and Master pressure and we weren’t ready for that. Until you experience of Ceremonies. it, you don’t know how smothering wearing the Maple Leaf can be.” By 2001, after a heart-wrenching loss to Kelly Law in a Scott Tournament of Hearts preliminary game to make the team 3-4, the team sat with coach Bagnell and he let them vent. It worked. They won four in a row, made the playoffs and won. Kelly says that defined who they were and became. “We had tenacity and fortitude. I think what brings the biggest smile to my face is thinking of the Worlds win that year. Colleen had never won and really

The Colleen Jones rink won the World Championship in Norway in 2004. Team members (l to r) were Colleen Jones, Kim Kelly, Mary-Anne Arsenault, Nancy Delahunt, Mary Sue Radford - 5th, Ken Bagnell - Team Coach and Elaine Dagg-Jackson - National Team Coach.

12 The Nova Scotia Curling Association congratulates Congratulations Colleen Jones! CBC Nova Scotia is proud to celebrate Colleen Jones’s Team Jones induction into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame. on their induction into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame.

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15 Will Njoku Athlete by Joel Jacobson

ou look at Will Njoku – 6’9” tall, lean, built to play basketball – and you think, Y“Wow! Things must have been easy for a guy of that size to excel at this sport.” Not so! The Ghana-born, Halifax-educated and raised young man was challenged from the get-go. He was a soccer player who came into basketball in Grade 7 and didn’t really blossom until his high school years. Coming out of a stellar academic and basketball experience at Halifax West High School under coach Nick Morash, Will was recruited by dozens of Division I schools in the United States – Duke, Duquesne and Western Kentucky among them – and across Canada. “I felt I was needed at home,” says Will today, recalling his decision to stay in Halifax. His father had died when Will was in Grade 9 and being the oldest son, he felt the need to help support his mother, two sisters and brother by being the role model. Will chose Saint Mary’s over his mother’s wishes for him to attend Dalhousie. “When I worked out at Saint Mary’s, they were friendly compared to Dal where it was tough to get into the gym. Mother’s are always right,” Will says with a smile. “And with 20-20 hindsight, maybe she would have been right, but I have great feelings toward Saint Mary’s, the players I was with, the coaches, and the overall experience.” The Saint Mary’s experience resulted in a National Championship and Will’s selection as the outstanding university player in Canada in 1993. It also exposed him to the Canadian National Team program to which he was chosen and for whom he played for 10 years. Playing for Canada also moved Will closer to a dream he had had since he was eight years old. “I saw a story in the newspaper about how happy a guy was to represent Canada and finish 10th at the Olympics,” he recalls. “I started making a scrapbook about the Olympics. It became my goal.” By age 16, Will was on the Canadian Junior National Team and moved forward from there. His experience with the National Team, alongside players like NBAers Steve Nash and Rick Fox, included playing in a couple of World Championships.

16 “Our big chance to get to the Olympics Left: Will won many awards in minor was a qualifying tournament in 1996. We basketball while dreaming of the day he’d were in the final four with Brazil, Puerto play on the Canadian National Team. Rico and (host) Argentina. We had to win one game to get to Atlanta, but lost to Brazil and Puerto Rico. I was the only one in our dressing room crying because I knew I had missed the goal I had lived for.” Will gained dozens of honours in high school and university basketball – MVPs at youth, junior high and high school levels; Provincial Juvenile Player of the Year; member of the Nova Scotia Canada Games team in 1989; Rookie of the Year at Saint Mary’s in 1991 and then first and second team all-AUS before being AUS MVP in 1992 and 1993, and All-Canadian in 1993 and 1994.

Will’s Wowzers Career Highlights: • CIS MVP, 1993 • AUS MVP, 1993 and 1994 • All Canadian, 1993 and 1994 • Halifax Metro High School MVP, 1990 • Canadian Junior Men’s Team, 1991 • Canadian Senior Men’s Team, 1993-1998 • Drafted NBA Indiana Pacers 41st overall, 1994 • Portuguese League all-star, 1998 • Most rebounds in one game CIS Final 8 – 21 • 2nd all-time leading scorer at Saint Mary’s University

1717 We were encouraged to be honest, respectful and get a good education. There was extreme discipline in our home and I used basketball to isolate myself from that, to have fun, be with teammates and friends. But I learned amazing qualities from my parents and am so proud of the sacrifices they made for us.” Today Will runs a motivational company – Will2Win – that encourages people to use their skills and talents to become better at what they do, to set goals and strive to reach them. “God has been good to me to help others, kids specifically, see me as someone who can be a mentor and help them achieve the best they can be,” Will says.

Joel Jacobson has been Chairman of Induction Night since 1984.

He had an NBA tryout with Phoenix in 1993 and was selected by Indiana 41st in 1994, the only Halifax-raised player to be drafted to the NBA. His chance to play in the pro league was hampered by numbers that year as the Pacers had several players competing for a spot or two. Will played minor pro ball in the States before embarking on a 10-year European career in France, Germany, Turkey, Portugal, Kosovo, Macedonia and Belgium. “You went where the best money was and the best chance to play was,” says Will of his nomadic tour of European basketball. But he adds he was eager to travel, learn about all these countries, and grow as a person. The experience was valuable to him. He stresses people don’t realize the dedication needed to play at the highest levels. “I was lucky. I learned discipline at home. I was raised in an immigrant family where my mum and dad worked to support their kids.

18 On the court and in life, he plays to win.

Congratulations to former Husky Will Njoku for his 2011 induction into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame.

Steve Pound Athlete by Joel Jacobson

teve Pound was a skinny freshman when he first the championship stepped on the basketball court at Acadia University game. Sin 1968. Twice Acadia’s Despite a high school career that saw him average 40 Athlete of the Year, a points a game in his senior season, tops in the United States, three-time member of and despite being recruited by more than 30 American the university’s Sport Hall Division I and II schools, Steve chose Acadia because, on of Fame, and an inductee his campus visit, academics, not basketball, were stressed. to the New England High “I think I was more mature than the average 18-year-old,” School Basketball Hall of Steve says today. “I came from a difficult family situation, Fame, Steve received his BA had lived away from my parents (who were divorced) at from Acadia, a Master’s in times, and had to make many of my own decisions. Coming Education at Dalhousie to Acadia just continued that, even though as a freshman, and PhD in Education I was living totally away from home for the first time and Leadership from Laval had to learn to budget my time.” University. He did everything well. Steve helped Halifax His school work was consistently good. In fact, he had Wandlyn Motor Inn win the top Grade Point Average in his graduating class in 1972. the Canadian Senior A His basketball improved because, in 1968, coach Gib Championship in 1973 by Chapman made him a point guard (passer) instead of the averaging 47 points in the shooting guard he was in high school. “The fact we had event and being MVP of Brian Heaney as a shooter, and he was a senior that year, the tournament. The next helped me improve my total game by being forced to learn year, his team advanced to a new position.” the final. Steve learned it well. He was an Atlantic University Sport He played professional all-star and helped Acadia win the league title. ball in England for a year, In 1969-70, with Steve back in the shooting role, the leading the league in scoring Axemen finished 22-4. His scoring feats were legendary as he with a 30-point-plus-per-game led the nation in scoring and was a unanimous All-Canadian. average, including a 55-point The next season was the highlight for Steve. As team effort that remains in the Guinness captain and an AUS All-Star, he led the Axemen to a 30-2 Book of Records as the most points record and the National Championship in a tournament scored in an English pro league played in Wolfville. game. As a senior, he set an all-time Acadia four-year scoring Steve loved to shoot. He could record when he passed the 2,000 point plateau, topping score on a picture-perfect jumper Heaney’s 1,917. Again captain and All-Canadian, Steve from around the key and from led the Axemen into the Nationals again where they lost in what is now three-point territory

20 (imagine how many points he’d have scored if the three- point line was in effect when he played) and on drives to Pound Points the hoop. His game was multi-dimensional as his defense Career Highlights: and tenacity was important to every team performance, too. • All-time leading Acadia scorer – more than 2,000 Steve eventually became a principal at Quebec (City) High points School where, under his coaching, the basketball team won • Four-time AUS All-Star 80 per cent of its games, two Quebec Small High School • CIS All-Canadian and MVP, 1969-1970 Provincial Championships and, in 1985, went 69-2. • CIS Scoring Champion, 1969-1970 He later was an assistant coach at Acadia while serving • CIS Champion – Acadia, 1971 as Alumni Association director. He returned to his • Canadian Senior A Men’s Champions, 1972-1973 native Maine in the early 2000s where he was a school • Twice Acadia Athlete of the Year superintendent until retirement two years ago. Today he is • USA top high-school scorer in 1968 – 40 pts per game associate director of workforce development for Cianbro • USA High-School All-American, 1968 Institute, a Maine-based company with 3,000 employees in 41 states. • Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame – Team “My high school basketball coach, George Wentworth, • Acadia Sport Hall of Fame – Athlete and Team probably challenged me more than anyone else,” says Steve. • New England High-School Basketball Hall of Fame “At my first practise as a Grade 9 freshman, he told me ‘You’re the worst shooter I’ve ever seen.’ He knew it would Steve credits coaches and teammates for the success he had make me mad and that I’d work hard to show him. I did but is quick to add, “Good people like George, Gib, and and kept improving. That really changed my life.” Jim Logue (an assistant at Acadia) supported me, challenged me, and made me a better person.”

The 1971 CIS champion Acadia Axemen. Steve Pound is second from right, kneeling in front.

2121 Above: Acadia and Steve Pound (12) celebrate the 1971 CIS Championship win by cutting down the nets at Acadia’s War Memorial Gymnasium.

Right: Acadia Alumni Association director Bill Parker congratulates Steve Pound (left) and Rick Eaton on their title win.

22 Congratulations

on your induction into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame Stand Up and Cheer for Acadia’s newest Nova Scotia Sport Steve Pound (’72 & ’75) Hall of Fame members. Nancy (Taylor) Delahunt (’82) Congratulations!

23 Congratulations congratulates WILL NJOKU, Steve STEVE POUND on your induction CAROLYN& SAVOY to the Hall of Fame

The Gaetz Family

L-R Back Row: Manager Willis Porter, Tom Staines, Fred Moczulski, Tom Farrington, Trainer Harvey Mills. Middle Row: Bruiser McGee, Jon Beausang, Terry Condon, Freeman Schoﬁeld, Paul Talbot. Front Row: Gary Folker, Coach Gib Chapman, Co-Captain Steve Pound, Co-Captain Rick Eaton, Assistant Coach Jim Logue, Peter Phipps. Trophy: McGee Trophy – C.I.A.U. National Championship Trophy

24 Cecilia Branch, Halifax, center, is pictured with teammates at University of Nevada at Las Vegas. She was inducted to the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 1991 and holds 65 Nova Scotia track and field records. Branch set a Canadian high school record in the 100m hurdles in 1973 and was rated third in the country in the 100m hurdles. She was a member of the Canadian Pan-Am Games track team in 1979, and the Canadian Olympic team in 1980. She was the Canadian indoor and outdoor 60m hurdles champion in 1985, the same year she was America’s Cup 100 metre hurdle champion. She was named UNLV’s most outstanding performer twice and was a bronze medalist in AIAW Track and Field Championships.

The members of the Atlantic Division CanoeKayak Canada applaud Mike Scarola on his induction to the Sport Hall of Fame and being a role model for sprint paddlers to follow.

25 Billy Pickering • Eddie Gillis • Lowell MacDonald The Office of Health and Wellness Burns Wesley Pierce • Jack Gray • Gary Walter MacMahon Wyman Porter • Don Henderson • MacKenzie “Kenzie” MacNeil • recognizes the contributions of the Billy Rawley • Clarence Johnson • Gerald “Tarp” Walsh • Vaughan Reagh • Fred Kelly • honoured members of Walter Rice • Art Lightfoot • BUILDER Billy Richardson • Frank McGibbon • John E. “Gee” Ahern • Harvey Richardson • Leo “Pop” McKenna • Gerald St. Clair “Jerry” Bauld • “Nugget” Richmond • John MacCarthy • The Nova Percy Ring • Charles MacVicar • TEAM Mickey Roach • Hugh Noble • Alf Rogers • Victor deB. Oland • Acadia Senior Men’s Varsity William C. Ross • John Piers • Basketball 1964-65 Scotia Sport Fritz Schaefer • Dannie Seaman • Acadia Senior Women’s Varsity Cliff Shand • H.L. “Bud” Thorbourne • Swim 1977-78 Howard Shaw • Harry Trainor • Bridgetown Men’s Lawn Bowling Hall of Fame Lou Shaw • Abbie Warden • 1973-75 Lou Siderski • George Warden • International Dory Racing - Lloyd Billy Smith • Heisler & Russell Langille Ted Stackhouse • TEAM 1952-55 Frank Stephen • Springhill “Fencebusters” Baseball Acadia University “Axemen” 1927-28 Bill “Red” Stuart • Basketball 1971 Maureen MacDonald Dave Thomson • Caledonia Rugby 1937 MEDIA AWARD Minister George Tracy • Halifax “Atlantics” Hockey 1952- Jimmy Trott • 53-54 W.J. “Ace” Foley • Jack Twaddle • Halifax Queen Elizabeth “Lions” Angus Walters • Charles “Tiny” Herman • Basketball 1950 1983 THE Terrence “Tiger” Warrington • Halifax “Wolverines” Hockey Grant Holmes • Russel T. Ward • ATHLETE Vernon “Newt” Hopper • 1934-35 ORIGINAL George Weatherbee • Kentville “Glooscap” Curling 1951 Clyde Gray John “Timmie” Hunter • Neddie Weaver • Roy Hunter • Kentville Wildcats Hockey 1926-27 George “Rock-A-Bye” Ross • SPORT HALL Steven Whelan • New Glasgow High School Nedder Hurley • Neil Wilkie • Gordon B. Isnor • Track and Field 1937 BUILDER OF FAME James “Minute” Wilkie • New Waterford Central High School Roy Isnor • Benny Woodworth • Frank Baldwin • INDUCTEES Stanton Jackson • Basketball 1961 Waldon Kennedy • TEAM New Waterford “Strands” Basketball TEAM ATHLETE Alf Kirby • 1946-47-48 Jubilee Four Oared Crew of 1930 St. Agnes Juvenile Basketball - World Championship Sailing Alfred “Ackie” Allbon • Gordon “Doggie” Kuhn • Glen Dexter, Andreas Josenhans, Robert Laidlaw • (Rowing) New Waterford 1932 Hector “Hec” Andrews • Ross Foley Four Oared Crew Stellarton “Albions” Baseball Alexander “Sandy” MacMillan Sam R. Balcom • Ves Laing • 1977, 1980 Mellish Lane • (Rowing) 1951-52-53 Marty Barry • St. Mary’s Four Oared Crew of Sydney Millionaires Hockey 1941 Wally Barteaux • Sam Langford • MEDIA AWARD George Latham • 1909 (Rowing) Truro “Bearcats” Senior Baseball Fabie Bates • Smith-Nickerson Four Oared Crew 1946 Alex Nickerson • D. Stanley Bauld Jack Learment • Sammy Lesser • (Rowing) Truro Bearcats “Seven Survivors” Joey Beaton Hockey 1930-31 Richard Beazley • Fergie Little • 1984 Tommy Little • Truro “Slugs” Girls Softball 1945- Vaughan Black • 1980 46-50 ATHLETE Neddy Borne • Lester Lowther • ATHLETE Arthur J. Brady • Mark & Mike Lynch • Marjorie Bailey Brown Henry “Ducky” Brooks • Victor MacAulay • David Amadio • 1981 Lyle Carter Ritchie MacCoy • Paul Andrea Gerald Mielke • Frank Brown • ATHLETE George Brown • “Big” Alex MacDonald • Don Bauld Wayne Smith Freddie Cameron • Ian MacDonald • Len Boss • Edith Bauld “Hockey Jack” Campbell • Jack D. MacDonald • Joe “Beef” Cameron • John Alexander “Johnny” Clark • BUILDER Mike Carney • R.J. MacDonald • Dr. W.A. “Buddy” Condy • Delmore William “Buddy” Daye • John “Brother” MacDonald • Frank Carroll • Roddie MacDonald • John Devison James Goode “Jimmy” Gray • Jimmy McDonald • Carroll Charleton • Toby MacDonald • Foster “Moxie” Dickson • John Edward McCurdy D.R. “Dempsey” Chisholm • John MacIntyre • P. “Skit” Ferguson Jesse Elroy Mitchell MEDIA AWARD “Mickey” MacIntyre • Fred Fox • Roy Chisholm • Earl R.J. Morton • Frank Condon • Hughie MacKinnon • Lawson Fowler • BUILDER Clarence “Coot” MacLean • Jack Condon • Tyrone Gardiner Nathan Scoville “Nate” Bain • Kirk MacLellan • Johnny Conroy • Doug Grant Harold William “Harry” Butler • 1985 Silas MacLellan • Thurston Cook • Art Hafey Captain John Theodore Cruikshank • ATHLETE Wilbert Martel • Joe Crockett • John “Junior” Hanna • James Archibald “J.A.” Ferguson • Jimmy Martin • Susan Mason (MacLeod) George Cutten • Jimmy Hawboldt • Judge Julian Elliot Hudson • Stephen “Duke” McIsaac • Thomas Melvin “Ike” Murray Art Dalton • Robert Hayes • Donald John Loney • Bill McKay • Beverley “Bev” Wade • Robie Davison • J. “Bert” Hirschfeld • John “Jack” Thomas • Jack McKenna • Dorothy Holmes Claire DeMont • Freda Noble Wales • BUILDER George Dixon • Sandy McMullin • Vida Large • W.R. “Tee” Doyle • Aileen Meagher • Parker MacDonald TEAM Frederick Robert “Fred” Lynch • Bert “Basket” Messervy Steve “Kid” MacDonald • Les Topshee • Burns Dunbar • Acadia University Men’s Basketball Bill Dunphy • Johnny Miles • Allister MacNeil Leigh Miller • Avard Mann • 1930 MEDIA AWARD Vern Eville • Halifax Curling Club Men’s 1927 Layton Ferguson • Billy Mooney • S. “Chook” Maxwell • Dr. Cecil MacLean • Frank Morrison • Joseph “Joey” Mullins • Liverpool Jets Senior Women’s Robert “Burglar” Ferguson • Softball 1965-67 Vincent Ferguson • Ernie Mosher • Roy Oliver • Tom Mullane • Bevil “Bev” Piers • Liverpool Larrupers Senior Leon Fluck • Baseball 1939-41 1986 Charlie Foley • Jack Munroe • Blair Richardson • ATHLETE Mike Murphy • Richie Spears Yarmouth Gateways Senior Tom Foley • Baseball 1929-35 Bob Forward • A.V. “Chummie” Murray • Sherman White • Sylvester “Daddy” Bubar • Jack Stan Fraser • Frank Nicks • R. “Tic” Williams • Nancy Ellen Garapick Jimmy Fraser • Con Olson • Frances J. Woodbury • 1982 Gerald “Gerry” Leslie Glinz • Bob Goodhew • Gerald “Jigger” O’Neil • Marty Martinello • John W. O’Neill • BUILDER ATHLETE Louis “Louie” Graham • BUILDER Chester Gregory • Jim “Hank” O’Rourke • Bob Beaton • Norman “Normie” Ferguson John “Hap” Hanlon • Billy Parsons • A. Garnet Brown • George Ross Harper Steve MacDonald Reg Hart • Charles Patterson Sr. • Ted Cumming Christopher “Chris” Hook Gordon S. Mont Roy Haverstock • Charles Patterson 2nd • John Cechetto Maisie Howard • Nedder Healey • Charlie Paul • Hanson Dowell • Richard “Kid” Howard • TEAM Gertrude Phinney • William A. Henry • Danny Gallivan • Rita Lohnes Saint Mary’s University Football 1973 1987 BUILDER 1998 2003 2007 ATHLETE Darius “Pat” Patterson • ATHLETE ATHLETE ATHLETE Bob Sayer John “Jack” Fritz • William “Bill” Carter • Rick Anderson Frank Dorrington Phil Scott TEAM Wilson Parsons Jim Beckman Stan Hennigar Jr. Francis “Rocky” MacDougall • William “Bill” Riley Malcolm Davis Fred Lake • Saint Francis Xavier Hockey 1950-51 BUILDER Ken Shea Graham MacIntyre Penny LaRocque Clyde Roy • Charles Smith • Janet Merry 1993 BUILDER Barry Shakespeare • Wendell Young Owen N. Sawler • Elizabeth Chard • ATHLETE BUILDER BUILDER TEAM Lois MacGregor Leo Amadio • Bob Wong Jerome Bruhm Steve Konchalski Shearwater Flyers Football 1957 Andrew Cole Leo Fahey Don Koharski TEAM Dick MacLean • Elizabeth Connor • TEAM Robert McCall • Saint Mary’s University Basketball 1988 Robert Mills 1972-73 Saint Francis Xavier Football 1963 ATHLETE Miriam Penney • 2008 MEDIA ATHLETE Douglas “Dugger” McNeil Doug Sulliman 1999 David Piers BUILDER Hugh Townsend Don Brien Earl Arthur Ryan • ATHLETE Peter Corkum Garfield MacDonald • James Creighton • Dave Downey 2004 Al MacInnis Bill Kingston • Duncan Gillis • Carroll Morgan BUILDER ATHLETE Mike Henderson BUILDER George “Porgy” Kehoe • 1994 Mike McPhee Art Dorrington Annie Longard • Wayne Finck ATHLETE Hugh Little • Gladys Longard • BUILDER Gerry MacMillan David Fraser Arnold Patterson • TEAM Paul Boutilier Bob Boucher • Kathy Powers Ann Dodge Pat Connolly Tyrone Williams Brookfield Elks Softball 1980 Peter Doig John MacGlashen TEAM Karin Maessen BUILDER Amherst Ramblers Hockey TEAM 1960-61 BUILDER Bernie Chisholm 1989 Halifax Arcade Ladies Softball Hugh Matheson ATHLETE Robert “Bob” Douglas • 1946-49 Gail Rice Frank Garner William James Roue • 2009 Hugh Alexander Campbell ATHLETE Herbert MacLeod • TEAM TEAM Sydney Hale Roy • 2000 Bruce Beaton Reginald J. Muise Saint Francis Xavier Football 1966 ATHLETE Glace Bay Colonels 1987 Mickey Fox Brian Heaney BUILDER Donald “Chick” Charlton • MEDIA 1995 William Hannon Jody Hennigar John Brophy Kevin Morrison Donnie MacIsaac • Gordie Smith ATHLETE Nigel Kemp Lawrence “Butch” O’Hearn BUILDER Donald Wheeler • Josephine Laba • BUILDER 2005 Roy Clements • TEAM Paul MacLean Marie Moore Kell Antoft • ATHLETE Gus Fahey Stellarton Monarchs Senior Ralph Simmons • Brian Langley Neil Amadio • TEAM Softball 1937-38 Al Yarr BUILDER John Cassidy Jackie Hayden Acadia University Men’s Basketball Gussie MacLellan • TEAM David “Ducky” Webber 1976-77 1990 Ken Mantin Sydney Millionaires Hockey ATHLETE 1948-49 BUILDER TEAM 2010 Reginald “Reg” Beazley • John Paris Jr. Peter Hope Nova Scotia Women’s Field Susan Smith ATHLETE Sam Wareham • Hockey 1975 2001 Murray Sleep • Janice Cossar Jerry Byers • ATHLETE Mike Forgeron TEAM Robyn Meagher BUILDER 1996 Cecilia Branch Donald MacVicar Antigonish Robertson’s Midget Gary Sabean Robert “Bob” Kaplan ATHLETE Kathy MacCormack Spurr Softball 1984 Cindy Tye Herman Kaplan • Nova Scotia Canada Games Men’s Ross Webb David Crabbe BUILDER Alfred “Alf” LeJeune Edna Lockhart Duncanson • Basketball 1987 BUILDER TEAM Duncan MacIntyre Laurie Power • MEDIA Marie McNeil Bowness Ginny Smith Carl “Bucky” Buchanan Windsor Maple Leafs Senior Karen Fraser Moore Al Hollingsworth Kevin Heisler Hockey 1963-64 TEAM Rick Rivers BUILDER Thorburn Mohawks Maritime Junior 2006 Taylor Gordon Softball 1963-65 1991 ATHLETE 2011 Fred MacGillivray, Sr. • 1981 Canada Games Junior Boys ATHLETE ATHLETE Joyce Myers • Softball Terry Baker Walter Dann Chris Clarke Will Njoku Hilliard Graves 1997 John Giovannetti Steve Pound Angus “Sonny” MacDonald • 2002 David Pinkney Sr. • Cam Russell John Myketyn • ATHLETE ATHLETE Ken Reardon Michael Scarola Billy O’Donnell Jamie Bone Fabian Joseph BUILDER BUILDER BUILDER Rick Bowness Cliff Roach • Edwin Crowell Mark Smith David Andrews Hubert Earle John Fortunato • John “Jook” Munroe Muriel Fage • Carolyn Savoy Keith MacKenzie Bob Piers BUILDER Courtney Malcolm Rod Shoveller • TEAM BUILDER Terry Henderson TEAM Alexander “Sandy” Young • Team Jones 1999-2004 George Athanasiou Judy Lugar and Morag McLean 1992 Dr. William Stanish TEAM Sailing • Deceased ATHLETE Dorothy Walker Dalhousie University Volleyball Fisherman’s Market Midget Boys Fast Pitch Softball 1981 Fred Cuvelier • TEAM 1982 Ismet “Hum” Joseph • Saint Mary’s Junior Hockey 1948 Wayne Maxner Nova Scotia Voyageurs Hockey 1971-72 Cam Russell Athlete by Willy Palov

t may be hard to picture now, but Cam Russell was a skilled As a third-round offensive defenceman who rarely took penalties when pick trying to make the Ihe was a minor hockey player. Blackhawks in the late 1980s It wasn’t until he got to the higher levels and early ‘90s Russell used that he adopted the rugged stay-at- his six-foot-four, 200-pound home style that produced a 10- frame to his advantage, literally year NHL career. fighting his way into the big “Growing up I scored a lot of leagues. He accumulated points and was almost always 872 penalties to go with voted most gentlemanly player 30 points during a on my teams. I used to always 10-year, 396-game win those Esso medals for NHL career, mostly most sportsmanlike,” the Cole in Chicago. In 1991, Harbour product said with a Russell’s Hawks made laugh. “The role I played as the Stanley Cup final a kid was as a power-play which they eventually lost guy and just an all-around to Pittsburgh. defenceman. It was more “I was always the type when I went to Chicago of guy that found it hard to and I was looking look in the mirror if I didn’t around and seeing that do what I was supposed to do role had been taken by out there,” said Russell, who four or five other guys; also spent half a season with I thought ‘what can I the Colorado Avalanche. do to stay here?’ It “I think deep down was just a matter of everyone knows survival. I just had what needs to be done. to figure out It wasn’t easy, but for me, what to do living with the guilt or not to make being able to look at myself in the it.” mirror would’ve been a lot harder.” Long-time teammate Stephane Matteau was quick to say how highly Russell was regarded in the dressing room for always having his friends’ backs. “I played four years of junior with him in Hull and then we played together in Chicago, so I got to know him really well,” Matteau said. “To me, he was the gutsiest

28 But the rough-and-tumble role took its toll. Russell had numerous injuries and a dozen surgeries during his playing career and it was a major shoulder reconstruction in 1999 that forced him into early retirement. “I was only 30 at the time,” Russell said. “I had two torn rotator cuffs in my shoulder and a torn labrum. They cut me open in the front and then down the deltoid so I just never got the range of motion back. I knew what I had to do. I filed for my disability and they sent me to an independent medical evaluator and he deemed me unable to play because of the limited range of motion and the lack of strength. To this day, there are still lots of things I can’t do with my left arm. “It was tough, but you know what, it was my 12th operation so you start to think about your quality of life after hockey. I’d had spinal fusion, I had a big operation on my face where I broke four bones in my face, I had my nose fixed three times, had my knees done and obviously my shoulder. I

player I ever played with. He wasn’t the biggest or the toughest, but he was the gutsiest. He was incredible. I still talk about this guy all the time when I tell stories. “He cared about everyone and even though he knew in some battles that he went into, it wasn’t a fair fight, he would still go. He gained a lot of respect from his teammates that way.”

Top: Cam dreamed of an NHL career when he was playing minor hockey in Dartmouth. Right: Cam’s dream came true as he played ten seasons in hockey’s top league.

2929 just knew it was time. My body had had enough. It’s one thing if you’re scoring goals but if you’re playing the kind of game I had to play, it definitely takes its toll on you.”

Willy Palov covers the Halifax Mooseheads and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for The Chronicle Herald.

Below: Early in his career, Cam checks a Minnesota North Star player.

Cam’s Clips Career Highlights: • Ten years in NHL • 396 regular season games • Stanley Cup finalist • Stay-at-home defenceman • 30 points • 872 penalty minutes • Twice QMJHL champion with Hull Olympiques • Played in two Memorial Cup championships

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33 Mike Scarola Athlete by Joel Jacobson

ike Scarola was always smaller than the rest of Mike learned to paddle on the kids but that meant he had to work harder Lake Banook in Dartmouth. With Mto keep up. three canoe clubs available on that The desire to improve, to beat the bigger world-class water, much was available kids, pushed him to become better, to a nine-year-old hankering to get better than almost everyone else in into a boat. the world. “I had to wait a month after I joined Eventually, Mike Scarola Senobe Club because I wasn’t strong was able to surpass almost enough to pass the swim test,” he recalls all his teammates and with a smile. “I worked hard, I passed and I competitors on the was on my way. I picked up the paddling world stage, winning technique quickly but, as the other gold, silver and bronze kids grew, I fell behind. Even medals at world canoe though I outworked championships, World Cups, and being top six everyone at the 2004 and really liked it, I Olympic didn’t really think I’d ever do well.” Games. He certainly did well. He had solid coaching, and role models like eventual Olympic medallist Steve Giles of Lake Echo with whom he trained often, and Larry Cain, a Canadian paddling gold medalist who, when in Dartmouth for Nationals, was awed by young Mike.

34 “I was really struck by him,” he recalls. “He put status in paddling.” Magnificent Mike At 13, in 1989, Mike went to his first National Career Highlights: Championships, young, and racing out of his age class. As • 19-time Canadian National Senior Champion the helmsman of the four-man boat, he couldn’t keep the • Sixth-place, Olympic Games, Athens 2004 craft in its lane. The team was disqualified. • Gold and silver medals, 1993 Canada Games “One of our guys, older and bigger, screamed at me and • Four gold medals, World Cups, 2001 said, ‘I knew you weren’t strong enough to steer.’ That • Bronze medal, C2 Sprint World Championships, 2002 just gave me the inspiration to get stronger and work even • Six silver medals, World Cups, 2000 through 2004 harder. “ • Silver medal, World University Championships, 2002 Mike made the Nova Scotia Canada Games team at 17 • Silver medal, C2 Marathon World Championships, and won gold in the solo 6,000 metres. He competed at 2000 Junior Worlds at 18. Yet, when he moved to senior paddling, he feared his peers were still bigger and stronger. He lacked confidence and “He worked his athletes really hard, knocked fitness into almost quit. He was training at half level but then moved them, and I started to love the sport again. I saw quick to Cheema Aquatic Club in Waverly. improvements and by age 21, made the National team and Mike came under the tutelage of Laszlo (Chum) competed at Worlds. Chum was the biggest influence. He Latorovszki who dealt with young athletes with a different entrenched that working harder than everyone else would approach. pay off.” Mike says focus, determination, a willingness to outwork his competitors, and want it more, was the way he operated – and it did pay off. By 2000, at age 24, he was medalling regularly on the world stage. Between 2000 and 2004, he won four golds, six silvers and two bronze medals at World Cups—all at either C2 500 or 1,000 metres. Between 1997 and 2003, he was a solid competitor at World Sprint Championships. In 2000, on his home course, he won silver in C2 40km at the World Marathon Championships. He was second in C2 1,000 at the World University Games in 2002, the same year he earned third at the World Sprint Championships in C2 1,000. The capper was making the Canadian Olympic team in 2004 where he and long-time C2 partner Richard Dalton of Dartmouth finished sixth in the C2 1,000 metre race. “Richard and I partnered in 1999 and stayed together until 2004. We narrowly missed qualifying for the Canadian Olympic team in 2000, but later that year we beat the Olympic crew five times. Richard and I had a tight relationship. We lived in the same room for five-six months a

Mike Scarola and Richard Dalton cool down after a race.

3535 year while training, were always on the water together for 10 to 14 practises a week. We really complemented each other. He benefitted from my organizational skills and I learned from watching a great paddler who had a work ethic and focus second to none.” Mike retired six months after Athens, in January 2005. “The transition is the biggest challenge for a national athlete, You have to have something else to focus on and I did.” He had married his long-time girlfriend, Barb Locke. They had a child, with two more to follow, and Mike had completed his business degree at Saint Mary’s University and an MBA at Dalhousie. Almost 30 at the time, he had been part of RBC’s Esteem Team (as an Olympic athlete speaking to youngsters and corporate groups to inspire them to set goals and be successful), was president of the Atlantic chapter of Olympians Canada, and a member of Canoe Kayak Canada’s High Performance Committee. “I had a job with RBC (in investment banking) and it was time to prove myself in another area. Sure I missed paddling for a few years but I’m getting back into it at this year’s senior men’s war canoe and in a senior men’s C4 boat. Where we end up is not as important as it once was, even though I really want to win.” Mike says the most valuable takeaway from paddling has been learning that hard work, focus and planning can ensure you overcome hurdles. “What seems impossible at the start can become reality. Learning that in sport can transfer to how you approach life.”

Joel Jacobson is a former daily newspaper columnist who now writes and edits the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame newsletter, On The Go, and coordinates the Hall of Fame Induction Night.

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37 Hubert Earle Builder by Joel Jacobson

ubert Earle confesses he’s allergic to pain. He boxed once in a practice gym, was Hknocked senseless and decided that wasn’t for him. He is obviously a quick learner. He decided, if he wanted to be part of the sport, it would be as an official and administrator. Forty years later, he’s the director of combat sport for the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority, an organization he chaired for several years. Hubert works with the provincial government’s Department of Health and Wellness, formerly Health Promotion and Protection. Hubert Earle is also a world class boxing referee, still officiating world title bouts in far-flung places around the globe. In his home, Hubert Earle has a wall of pictures, boxing posters and presentation plaques recognizing some of the hundreds of fights h e ’ s officiated.

38 Left & below: Hubert Earle performs two of the most difficult tasks of a boxing referee, leaving himself open to a wild punch and breaking the fighters from a clinch.

Hubert is a builder in the true sense. He has volunteered thousands of hours to write and re-write rules and regulations that make his sports safer for the competitors, and more understanding to the coaches, trainers, promoters and spectators. He has worked hard to get where he is, never considering the compensation that comes with some phases of his job (he says it has cost him plenty of money from his pocket to referee around the world in lost wages from jobs and minor expenses not covered by the World Boxing Association that hires him). He has been a student all his life, learning what he can about each area of the combat sports. When the viability of mixed martial arts was an issue as it came to Nova Scotia, Hubert got into the ring with men half his age and more to learn what the competitors saw and felt. He spent six months in pain and basically on the couch after his first “rolling” session (MMA’s equivalent to boxing’s sparring). He never rolled again, but truly knew what went on in the cage. In the late 1990s, while heading the Authority, Hubert initiated mandatory infectious disease testing and head CT scans throughout Canada. He drafted

3939 Left: One of Hubert’s Fort Worth ,Texas, with welterweight Donald Curry,” says proudest moments Hubert. “But, even today, those start-of-bout jitters are gone was walking into in seconds and you go to work.” Madison Square Garden in New He admits stepping through the ropes still gives him York as the first his greatest thrill even though what he does for the Boxing Nova Scotian and Authority has, through concern for safety, far greater impact Canadian to referee on the men and women who compete in boxing and mixed a major boxing martial arts. match in what is known as the mecca of boxing.

Hubert’s Hot Shots Career Highlights: • Ring Official, World Boxing Association Refereed dozens of major world boxing championships a manual of guidelines for Canadian Boxing Association • Referee-in-Chief, Nova Scotia Boxing Authority referees, runs medical seminars as he shows doctors what a • Referee-in-Chief, Canadian Professional Boxing ring doctor needs to know, and sessions for ring officials. Federation He also oversees annual updates of rules and regulations for • Referee, New York State Athletic Commission boxing and MMA in Nova Scotia. • Director of Combat Sports, NSBA “I always liked boxing,” he says. “I’d go to the fights at the • Trained officials for NSBA Forum and yell at the referees if I thought they were wrong. • Amended rules, instituted mandatory CT scans and One day, someone sitting near me said, ‘If you think you’re infectious disease testing in Canadian combat sports so good, why don’t you try it.’ ” Hubert laughs, as he does often when he gets embarrassed talking about himself. “I decided I could have the best seat Below: Hubert points Roy Jones Jr. to the corner after an early in the house – in the ring - , not pay for a ticket and be paid knockdown of Joe Calzaghe at Madison Square Garden in New to do something I enjoyed,” he says. York. Refereeing there was a highlight of Hubert’s illustrious officiating He trained with Hall of career. Calzaghe came back to win a decision. Famer Bobby Beaton for three years and finally was assigned a bout. That started a local career that blossomed to international when the very shy Hubert finally spoke with another Hall of Famer, Murray Sleep, who was with the WBA. “What took you so long (to approach me)?, asked Sleep, and, recognizing Hubert’s talent, arranged for him to get world fights. “My knees were shaking when I did my first one, in

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41 Cyarol n Savoy Builder by Katherine Wooler

“ he team is everything.” career wins. Her Dal Tigers won 11 regular That’s Dr. Carolyn season Atlantic University Sport (AUS) TSavoy’s philosophy, one championships, five playoff titles, and won that has enabled her to amass silver at the CIS 1980 women’s championship. 858 wins in almost 40 years as a Between 1979 and 1982, Dr. Savoy’s Tigers went basketball coach. on a winning streak of 49 consecutive AUS league During her 32 years as games. Savoy was a five-time AUS Coach of the Year. coach of Dalhousie women’s The “team” concept of the student-athlete, and basketball team (1977-2009), building relationships, have been at the forefront of and seven earlier years at St. Savoy’s coaching mantra. Francis Xavier University, Her students, while succeeding on the Savoy set a Canadian court, have accomplished a 100 per cent Interuniversity graduation rate, for those who have Sport (CIS) been in her program for between three standard and five years. Sixteen of her athletes for have been named All-Canadians. Five have become members of the Canadian National Team. She finds it all “extremely rewarding. I’m not a maker of basketball players,” she says, “but a maker of people.”

42 Carolyn’s Contributions Career Highlights: • Record 858 CIS wins as coach • 75 per cent winning record • 11 AUS league titles • Five AUS conference (playoff) titles • Five-time AUS Coach of the Year • 16 players named All-Canadian • Five players on Canadian National Team • 100 per cent graduation record for athletes playing 3-5 years • President of Basketball Nova Scotia • Basketball Canada Board of Directors, 1998-1987 • Saint John, New Brunswick, Sports Hall of Fame, 2003

Coach Carolyn Savoy hugs Sue Parke of the 1996 AUS champion Tigers on Senior Night in a 1997 pre-game ceremony. Most universities honour graduating players at their final home game.

Carolyn Savoy urges better performance from her team as AUS all-star Alex Legge listens intently.

Her student athletes admit the coach has been tough, demanding and intense on the practice and game floor, but has been a willing mentor and listening post off of it. Kelly Donald, who played for the Tigers under Carolyn’s direction for four years, says, “Looking back, I wouldn’t want to do anything differently.” She now applies many of Carolyn’s coaching techniques to her own coaching endeavors at local high schools. Leah Girdwood, a Tiger from 2003-2008, said “Carolyn made it very clear what was demanded. She expected performance and we loved that about her. But she would also go to bat and do anything for her players. She always had our interest at heart – in athletics, the classroom or socially. She just wanted the best for us and for us to give our best.” Kelly agrees, and comments on the respect Carolyn had for the game and her players. “She always wore suits to big games. You knew she meant business when she was wearing one of her suits, and she had a large variety of them.” Building a relationship is what Savoy believes to be the most important part of coaching, something carried forward

4343 by many of her former players who have become coaches at the school and club level. She facilitated healthy relationship- building by creating a successful mentorship program where mentors aid Dalhousie players in delivering presentations to high school teams. This leadership-oriented program is included in the stream of coaching courses that Savoy introduced to Dalhousie’s School of Health and Human Performance, where she taught for more than 30 years and from which she retired as an associate professor last June. Savoy was a guest coach with Basketball Canada for two decades, coach of Nova Scotia’s 2001 Canada Games women’s basketball team, served as president of Basketball Nova Scotia, president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association, and was an assistant coach under Pat Summitt at University of Tennessee in 1991, when the Lady Vols won the NCAA Championship. With her level-four coaching certification, and PhD in Sport Psychology from University of Tennessee (1992), Savoy has written two books, The Art of Coaching and Psychological Training Programs for Team Sport Athletes, as well as numerous articles on coaching and sport psychology. Dr. Savoy gives equal credit for her career to her team members, emphasizing that Dalhousie students, alumni, and sponsors have helped her get to where she is today. “The players are my legacy,” she adds.

Katherine Wooler works as a museum assistant for The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, while pursuing her final year of a Combined Honours in English and Creative Writing at Dalhousie University. She is also a writer for DalNews.

Carolyn gives wise counsel during a time-out at a Tigers home game.

44 45 Stellar Inductees Enter Hall in 2010

Top left: Janice Cossar is congratulated by her brothers John and Darren, both of whom presented her Induction Pin. Top right: Rick Rivers explains the sport of football to MC Bruce Rainnie. Middle left: Bucky Buchanan (r) receives his pin from long-time friend Russ MacNeil. Middle right: Robyn Meagher enjoys the commentary as her Hall of Fame career is highlighted. Bottom left: Pat Daly (middle) was named Hall of Fame Volunteer of the Year. John Randles Jr. (l) presented his plaque after Hall CEO Bill Robinson outlined his accomplishments. Bottom right: Members of the large audience cheer loudly as Mike Forgeron’s rowing feats were described.

46 Stellar Inductees Enter Hall in 2010

Top left: Kevin Heisler describes the challenges of being a track & field builder. Top middle: International karate champion Gary Sabean proudly enters the induction ceremony. Top right: Mike Forgeron beams as he joins the Hall of Fame. Middle left: Ross Webb tells Bruce Rainnie how easy it is to score hundreds of soccer goals. Middle right: One of many displays enjoyed by the large crowd attending Induction Night. Bottom left: Cindy Tye (middle) enjoys her moment with former teammates Stephanie Carlisle (l) and Dana Holmes Giles.

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49 Induction Procedure Meets With Success T ransparency, expanded committee participation highlight process

he revamped selection process for inductees to the A transparent first-ballot vote narrows the list, with the Hall of Fame, introduced in 2009, has proved to be top four vote getters in the athlete-team category receiving Tvery successful, creating transparency and expanded automatic election. Those others receiving at least 50 per participation while ensuring the province’s best athletes, teams cent of the first-ballot vote are then placed on a second and builders continue to gain the recognition they deserve. ballot, and require at least 75 per cent of the vote to attain Hall of Fame executive director Bill Robinson says a 24-person election. A maximum of six new members in the category review panel from across the province, all sport-knowledgeable can be elected each year. people, reviews the nominees, usually between 80 and 100 of The process is similar for builders with a maximum of them annually. two to be elected each year, unless there are extenuating Using a weighted point system, each of the 24 ranks his circumstances. or her top 10 in the athlete-team category and top five Chair of the Hall of Fame selection process is Hall of Fame builders. member Mark Smith, elected as an athlete in 2002. Two short lists – top point getters in athlete-team and Members of the two committees welcomed the new process builder categories – in alphabetical order, are then presented in 2009 and have seen its success in the years following. to a final 12-member selection committee, consisting of Nominations are accepted until January 31 each year. The regional representatives with sport background expertise. selection process moves through committees from March That committee meets in person to review the final list of through May. nominees, with open and detailed discussion taking place on each nominee.

S e l e c t i o n Committee Personnel 2011 Selection Review Panel 2011 Selection Committee Ray Bradshaw Gail MacDougall Chairman Richard Burton Lois MacGregor Mark Smith Bo Chisholm Glen MacKinnon Kevin Cameron Nancy Delahunt Dave MacLean George Hallett George Hallett Rick Pottie Mike Henderson Mike Henderson Bruce Rainnie Paul Hollingsworth Paul Hollingsworth Carol Rizzetto Albert Johnson Nevin Jackson Rick Swain Bill Kiely Albert Johnson Hugh Townsend Kathy MacCormack Spurr Nigel Kemp Blaine Whynott Karen Moore Bill Kiely Cecil Wright Dianne Norman Dave LeBlanc Gordie Sutherland Hugh Townsend

50 Past Chairs of the Hall of Fame Board of Directors Chairman...... Floyd Gaetz Vice Chairman...... Dr. William Stanish Cape Breton Region...... Dave MacLean Central Region...... Don Mills Fundy Region...... Kelly Kolke Highland Region...... Marc Champoux South Shore Region...... Mike Boudreau Hugh Noble Dorothy Walker Valley Region...... Gerry MacMillan Halifax Centreville 1977 – 1979 1980 – 1983 Director-At-Large...... Stephanie O’Connor Director-At-Large...... Mark Smith Liaison...... Blaise Landry Treasurer...... Rob Randall Past Chairman...... Fred MacGillivray Staff CEO...... Bill Robinson Facility & Communications Manager...... Shane Mailman Administration & Special Events Jim Bayer Bill White Eleanor Norrie Coordinator...... Karolyn Sevcik Wolfville Wolfville Truro Education Coordinator...... Leah McInnis 1983 – 1985 1986 – 1991 1991 – 1993 Collections Coordinator...... Tinisha Stilling

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51 O u r M i s s i o n To honour, promote and preserve the sport history of Nova Scotia. O u r V i s i o n To be the best provincial Sport Hall of Fame in Canada.

Administration he Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is administered by a Board of Directors which consists of six regional representatives, a chairman, past chairman, directors-at-large, and a treasurer. The Board meets regularly to ensure sound management Tpolicy and direction in the program operations of the Hall. Objectives o permanently record information and achievements of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia; To research, catalogue, file and make available to the general public, including without limitation, students, writers, schools Tand universities, information and achievements of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia; To publish books, periodicals, pamphlets and other literature recording information on the achievement of sports individuals, teams, and organizations of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia, for distribution to members of the public; To conduct programs of education for organizations in the community, including without limitation, schools, universities and special care homes, for the purpose of educating the public with information and achievements of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia; To maintain an archives of sport in Nova Scotia and exhibit to the public, literature, artifacts, photographs and other media information of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia; To recognize, honour and pay tribute to individuals, teams or organizations who have achieved extraordinary distinction in, have given distinguished service to, and who have made major contributions to the development and advancement of sport in Nova Scotia.

Hall of Fame Nominations he selection process for induction into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is the responsibility of a 24-person review panel and the provincial selection committee. The 24-person panel reviews all nominations for final recommendation Tto the provincial selection committee. The provincial selection committee, which consists of 12 people, including a provincial chairperson, carefully scrutinizes the final recommendations. Upon their review, under the terms and criteria for entry into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, the final candidates are selected and announced as inductees annually. Nominations for candidates are open to the general public and are received annually at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame with a January 31st deadline.

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