Featured Inductee: Carolyn Toll - Lacrosse

Year Inducted: 2017
Home Town: Oshawa

More about Carolyn Toll:
Carolyn Toll has excelled in every facet of lacrosse, beginning as a teenaged player in the late 1980's and continuing into the coaching, managing and officiating ranks throughout her adult life. Introduced to the game while a student at Donevan Collegiate in Oshawa, Carolyn earned a recognition award at a camp run by Barb Boyes and never looked back. As a player, she would go on to represent Ontario at several national championships and play for Canada at the 2001 World Cup in England. Carolyn moved on to coaching after the World Cup and joined the Canadian staff for the 2003 U19 World Cup, helping the team to a bronze medal. She has also coached at the high school level at Anderson Collegiate and Brooklin High School, where she led the girls' team to a LOSSA championship in its first year without the benefit of having Grade 12 students.With the Oshawa Lady Blue Knights, Carolyn introduced the "Baby Blue Knights Program", a groundbreaking league for girls aged 4 - 10, and has led rep teams to Provincial Championships in all seven years she has coached, without losing a game. She has won the Ontario Women's Field Lacrosse coach of the year award three times - in 2010, 2012 and 2014.Carolyn is also an international umpire and has officiated at five World Cup tournaments, including in Oshawa in 2013. She was presented with the Jane Action Award in 2010 for demonstrating a genuine love of the game through officiating and the Molly McIntyre Spirit of Lacrosse Award in 2013 for her excellence on the field, mentorship of others and overall contribution to the sport as an official.