Year Inducted: 2010
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jean Pratt:
Jean has been a dedicated player and tireless worker in promoting and supporting the sport of Golf at the local and provincial levels. As a player, Jean first played competitive golf in 1965 and went on to win 8 Ladies Club Championships. She also finished second in the Seniors Ladies Championship and won the Ladies Match Play Championship 5 times. Jean has participated in the Canadian Senior Championships in Ontario, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. As a builder, Jean's recognition in the community and around the province has been generated by her total devotion to the game, her never-ending volunteer work and her support of the Ontario Ladies Golf Association (OLGA). Jean held many various positions locally and with the OLGA ranging from District Convenor to ultimately being elected President of OLGA in 1990. In 1993, she was recognized at Ontario Sports Awards Provincial Dinner for 27 years of consecutive volunteer work in Ladies Golf. The OLGA recognized Jean in 2001 for her organization and executive work in a newly created award "Honorary Life Director Distinguished Award". In 2009, the Oshawa Golf Club recognized her dedication as a long time member of the club and one who has received Provincial Level Awards for excellent achievements by adding her name to the club's Wall of Fame. Jean is an Oshawa resident, born and bred here, who grew up learning sports in the Oshawa Parks system. As an athlete all of her life, she also participated competitively in ladies fastball, badminton and basketball in her younger years before finding her first love in the game of golf.
Year Inducted: 2003
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jeff Boyce:
Born and raised in Oshawa, Jeff began pitching at the age of 8. In 1974, Jeff led his Oshawa team to the Ontario Amateur Softball Association Bantam Championship. As a midget, he threw seven perfect innings striking out all 21 batters. Jeff was on the 1979 Ontario team that won the Canadian Junior Softball Championship. He was named top pitcher and selected to the All-Star Team.
Jeff headed west in 1980 and played in the Calgary Major Men's Softball League with Dome Petroleum. During a league final, he once pitched all 30 innings and struck out 50 batters. Through the 80's, Jeff led his Alberta team to 4 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals at the Canadian Senior Men's Softball Championships, and represented Canada at 3 International Softball Congress World Championships. In addition to being a league MVP, he was selected to Canadian Senior All-Star teams and named MVP and Top Pitcher at the Canadian Senior Championships. He was twice selected a 1st All-World Team Pitcher, and 2nd All-World Team Pitcher once.
Jeff was named Alberta's Amateur Player of the Year in 1981, and elected to the Alberta Softball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Year Inducted: 2010
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jeff Daniels:
Jeff was born in 1968 in Oshawa and played all his minor hockey with Baker Park, L.N.H.L. and the Oshawa Minor Hockey Association. He was named as the M.V.P. in minor hockey in 1979-80. Selected by the Oshawa Generals in 1983, Jeff started his career with the Oshawa Legionaires and played four years with the Oshawa Generals. While a member of the Generals, he was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1986 in the sixth round. Jeff was a member of the 1987 O.H.L. champion Generals team, finalists in the Memorial Cup. Jeff began his professional career in 1988 with the Pittsburgh Penguins organization and played 15 years of professional hockey. Daniels played a total of 425 N.H.L. games with Pittsburgh, Florida, Hartford, Nashville and Carolina. While with the Pittsburgh Penguins, he was a member of the 1991-92 Stanley Cup Champions. Jeff's playing career also consisted of 515 Minor League games with Muskegon, Cleveland, Detroit, Springfield, New Haven and Milwaukee. While playing with Muskegon in 1988-89, Jeff was a member of the Turner Cup I.H.L. Champions. In 2003, Jeff began his coaching career with the Carolina Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup in 2005-06 as an assistant coach. Jeff became the General Manager and Head Coach of the Albany River Rats of the A.H.L., an affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes in 2008. Jeff was known as a loyal and committed team member with excellent defensive and penalty-killing abilities.
Year Inducted: 1993
Home Town: Ajax
More about Jeffrey Carl Simpson:
Jeff was born in Ajax, Ontario in 1957. At the age of 18, Jeff was involved in a motor vehicle accident which left him confined to a wheelchair. In 1979, Jeff became a member of the Toronto Bulldog Wheelchair Sportsclub. He was an original member of the murderball team and served as Captain for several years. This team won medals in all levels of competition.
In 1981, at the Regional Games in Burlington, Jeff won gold medals in the 100 meter, 200 meter and murderball. He also won silver medals in the shot put and club throw and a bronze medal in snooker. These track events earned Jeff two Ontario and one Canadian record. In the same year at the National Games in Scarborough, Jeff won a silver medal in murderball and a bronze medal in shot put. In 1983, Jeff set three Ontario records in the 100, 200 and 400 meter events at the Ontario Games. He also won a silver in the discus and a bronze in the slalom event. Competition at the National Games in Alberta won him a gold medal in murderball. Jeff was named Top Wheelchair Athlete in Ontario in 1983.
Jeff was founder of the Durham Hot Wheels Disabled Sport Club and was head coach until his death in 1990. He was also co-founder of the Durham Regional Police Games.
Year Inducted: 2008
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jerry Welsh:
Born in Oshawa in April 1950, Jerry Welsh has had a distinguished and varied hockey career spanning 35 years. He progressed through the Oshawa Minor Hockey system and then spent the 1967-68 season with the Oshawa Junior B's, followed by a year with the Oshawa Generals Ontario Hockey Association Junior A Club. Jerry accepted an athletic scholarship at Ohio State University (OSU) in 1969 and played on their Big Ten Hockey Team for four years (1969-1973). In three of these years with the Buckeyes, he was voted the team's Most Valuable Player. Following his graduation from Ohio State, Jerry played professional hockey briefly with the World Hockey Association Minnesota Fighting Saints, and the North American Hockey League Johnstown Jets. He was a prolific scorer and team leader throughout his entire playing career.
In 1975 Jerry was hired as head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, his former team. He enjoyed a successful and lengthy career as a National College Athletic Association coach, leading the Buckeyes for 20 years before stepping down with 328 wins. In 1987 he was named the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's coach of the year, after OSU posted a stellar 30-10-1 record.
Jerry's hockey accomplishments make him an excellent addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame in the dual categories of Player and Builder.
Year Inducted: 2025
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jessica Lee:
Raised in Oshawa, Jessica has led Oshawa Lady Blue Knights lacrosse teams to an astonishing 12 provincial championships in 13 years of coaching. The Lady Blue Knights entered a team in the Ontario Field Lacrosse League in 2003, and Jessica coached the inaugural team. She has been the head coach of the under-19 elite JEWL — the club’s top team — for 12 years, along with one year of coaching the under-11 competitive team. The only season Jessica’s team did not win the provincials was in 2003, the very first year the Lady Blue Knights entered a rep team. She is also undefeated at the Ontario Summer Games, guiding her teams to four championship titles. Jessica has been awarded the Ontario Women’s Field Lacrosse coach of the year an unmatched four times — in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2024. She was voted onto the Ontario Women’s Field Lacrosse board as director of league development in 2023 and soon after appointed interim commissioner.Prior to her coaching career, Jessica was an exceptional player, making Team Ontario in 1996, ’97 and ’98 before going on an athletic scholarship to Gannon University. She was the NCAA Division II individual assists and points leader in 2001 and was named to the all-American team three times.Jessica Lee is a superb addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 1986
More about Jim Bishop:
Widely known as "Mr. Lacrosse" in Canada, Toronto-born Jim Bishop guided Oshawa Green Gaels to an unprecedented seven Minto Cup (Canadian Junior) Lacrosse Championships from 1963-69. As a coach, he won 19 Ontario minor lacrosse championships, seven Ontario and Canadian junior titles and two Ontario and Canadian senior championships. Jim also helped start two professional lacrosse leagues - the National Lacrosse League in 1968 in which he served as coach / general manager of the East Division champion Detroit Olympics, and the Canadian Lacrosse League in 1973, in which he served as general manager / coach of the Toronto Tomahawks and Montreal Quebecois. Beginning in 1969, he served four years as vice-president of the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings.
Jim is a past winner of the Michael Pearson Award for excellence in the sport of lacrosse, and is a member of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2009
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jim Hinkson:
Jim started playing lacrosse at 19. With passion, determination and leadership, he contributed to 10 championships series in 12 years. He won two Jr A Canadian Championships with the Oshawa Green Gaels in 1963 and 1964; a Professional Championship with the Peterborough Lakers in 1969; and three Senior Canadian Championships with the Windsor Warlocks in 1970, 1971 and 1973. Jim also played in championship finals with the Senior A Brooklin Merchants in 1965, the Professional Detroit Olympics in 1968 and the Professional Philadelphia Wings in 1974. In that same year, he represented Canada in the World Field Lacrosse Championships in Melbourne, Australia.Jim coached lacrosse for 13 years at the junior, senior and professional levels and won a Jr A Canadian Championship with the Whitby "CBC Builders" in 1980. He also coached in the National Lacrosse League, the Philadelphia Wings in 1975, the New York Saints in 2000 and the New Jersey Storm in 2002. Jim put his love of lacrosse into five books. "Box Lacrosse: The Fastest Game on Two Feet", "Lacrosse Fundamentals", "Lacrosse Team Strategies", "The Art of Team Coaching", and "Lacrosse for Dummies". Besides his involvement in this exciting sport, Jim found time to coach high school basketball for over 30 years in Toronto at Stephen Leacock and West Hill collegiates.
Year Inducted: 2017
Birth Date: September 06, 1926
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Jim Kinlin:
Swimmer Jim Kinlin, a noted philanthropist lived in Oshawa his entire life, from his birth on September 6, 1926 to his death on January 18, 1990 from a cancer-related illness.He was once compared to Terry Fox for his well-known annual swim-a-thon in Oshawa, which raised funds for leukaemia research. Over 14 years, Jim raised more than $200,000 and swam the equivalent distance of Canada's 3,405 miles plus.Among the many honours bestowed upon him was the Citizen of the Year Award by PPG Limited of Canada in 1980. That same year, he was presented with plaques by the Oshawa Chamber of Comnmerce in appreciation of his dedication to raising funds for leukaemia research and by Local 222, CAW for his contribution to humanity. In 1983, he won a community service award and citation from PPG Industries, a citation for his contribution to the annual swim-a-thon from the City of Oshawa and the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship. He was one of seven who was made a patron of the Leukemia Research Fund and was also given the Leukemia Award, the first of its kind presented for being a top fundraiser in Ontario for the fund.On two separate occasions, January 29, 1984 and April 1, 1989, the City of Oshawa proclaimed a Jim Kinlin Day for his many contributions to the City and the sport of swimming.
Year Inducted: 2010
Home Town: Oshawa
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A lifelong resident of Oshawa, Jim has been the face of Oshawa baseball for 52 years. As General Manager of the Oshawa Junior Legionaires, Jim enjoyed much success during his 50 years at the helm of the ball club. His teams captured numerous titles in the prestigious Leaside League, and have been crowned Ontario Baseball Champions on 6 occasions including an impressive 4 titles plus 2 runners-up between 1999 and 2008. They also represented Oshawa and Ontario in 4 Canadian Baseball Championships. Jim has been an executive member with the Oshawa Legion Minor Baseball Associatoin (OLMBA), Eastern Ontario Baseball Association (EOBA) and Ontario Baseball Association (OBA) where he has also served as President of each these Associations. For 9 years, Jim was a Scout with the Montreal Expos. He has, off-season, dedicated the same number of years officiating school basketball in Durham Region. Jim co-founded and operated the 'Best Ever' Baseball Clinic held annually in Toronto. It is considered the most popular sporting clinic in Canada attracting hundreds of coaches every year. Bestowed with many awards, Jim has been named an Honorary and Life member of the OLMBA, EOBA and OBA. He won the Government of Ontario Special Achievement Award for Fitness and Amateur Sport in 1981 and was honoured with the Royal Canadian Legion Meritorious Life Member Award in 1986. Oshawa's new Maxwell Heights Secondary School Junior Boys Basketball Tournament was also named in Jim's honour. Jim's efforts exemplify what volunteers mean to sports in a community and his 52 years of dedication to baseball in Oshawa earns him a richly deserved spot in the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
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