Year Inducted: 2003
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Oshawa Woodview Park Ladies Softball Team - 1968-1971:
They captured 4 consecutive (P.W.S.A.) Provincial Women's Softball Association Championships in 2 different divisions.
1968 - Juvenile A - they won two straight; the final game was 4-3 over Brantford.
1969 - Juvenile A - they won two straight over Scarborough All Stars - the final game 6-5.
1970 - Junior 1 - their toughest team, against Toronto Guildwood Park in the 3rd and deciding game scoring two runs in the extra 10th inning for a 17-15 victory.
1971 - Junior 1 - they won two straight against St. Mary's Ontario, 13-2 in the final game.
Team:
Barbara (Reid) Brown, Bonnie (Nichol) Jankowski, Carolyn Wilson, Cathy (Chapman) Fertile, Cathy (Stead) Taylor, Darleen (Loscombe) Hunter, Debbie (Harlow) Albrecht, Debbie (Thomson) Walker, Debby McQuoid, Donna (Harlow) Conboy, Ellen Coe, Elsie (Vandyk) Ferguson, Gail Batt, Gail Crossman, Gord Bell (coach), Doug Skinner (coach), Frank Henderson (coach), Norm Boddy, Gail (Lintlop) Seary, Jan McGrath, Jane (Harper) Barry, Joanne Bessie, Judy (Chapman) Pigeau, Judy Taylor, Lynda (Skinner) Ashton, Louise Wilson, Marilyn McAvoy, Mary Calder, Patti (Skinner) Krummenacher, Rita (Bradley) Parker, Ruth (Malarczuk) MacDonald, Sharon (Rogers) Hatch, Susan (Rogers) Balson
Thirteen players and three management of the 33 members played on all 4 teams. Their achievements brought honor and pride to our City, and they are the first women's team to become a member of the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 1986
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Pam Miller Falk:
The finest female golfer Oshawa has produced, Pam Miller won the Ontario ladies championship in 1966 and 1967 and the Manitoba ladies title in 1975 and 1976. As a provincial team member, she competed in three Canadian junior team championships with Ontario and nine senior team championships, six with the Manitoba squad and three with the Ontario quartet. She helped the Ontario Juniors to low gross titles in 1964 and 1966 and a low net trophy in 1965 at the national tournament. She helped the Ontario senior foursome capture the low gross title in 1972, and in 1976 with the Manitoba entry she helped win the low net category. Runner-up in the Canadian Junior Ladies championship in Dartmouth, N.S. in 1966, Miller progressed to the point where she was the sixth-ranked female golfer in Canada nine years later.
Year Inducted: 2018
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Paul Romanuk:
Oshawa native, sportscaster and writer Paul Bennett Romanuk, who is currently an NHL play-by-play announcer at Sportsnet will join the Sports Hall of Fame inductees.A graduate of G.L. Roberts CVI and Ryerson University, Paul worked on Oshawa Generals radio broadcasts part-time while at school from 1982 to 1984, and took over as the play-by-play voice of the team from 1984 to 1987, which included the 1987 Memorial Cup in Oshawa. He started working full-time for TSN from 1990 to 2001. During that time, he called, among other things, the world junior championship, Memorial Cup, men's and women's world championships, NBA and all NHL games on TSN after 1994.Paul was also the host of Baseball Tonight on TSN from 1990 until 1994 and was in the host's chair when the Blue Jays won their Back-to-Back World Series in 1992 and 1993.Most relevant to Oshawa, he called the 'Generals' Memorial Cup win in 1990. Since leaving TSN in 2001, Paul's career path has been incredibly varied, including stints as an interviewer at the TEAM Radio Network, host with Leafs TV, play-by-play announcer for the Toronto Raptors, a supervising editor at Sports Business International in the U.K. and play-by-play announcer at Eurosport, the top sports channel in Europe.Since the 2000 Sydney Games, Paul has been a play-by-lay announcer at six Olympics, calling hockey, basketball, triathlon and weightlifting. He's also a successful freelance writer, authoring more than 25 children's sports books since 1985, including the popular Hockey Superstars annual. Paul joined Sportsnet in 2014 and has since been the play-by-play commentator for national and regional coverage of the NHL in Canada.For his incredible career in sports journalism, Paul Romanuk is a wonderful addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2018
Home Town: Sault Ste. Marie
More about Paul Theriault:
Paul Theriault spent 10 years in Oshawa as head coach of the Generals, leading the team to two Ontario Hockey League championships.Born in Sault Ste. Marie and coach of the Greyhounds from 1978-79, Paul became head coach of the Generals the next season and led the team to a 42-26-0 record. Over the course of his nine seasons with the Generals, not once did the team finish below 500, and overall, they were 350-234-22, a winning percentage of .596. Paul led the team to OHL championships in 1983 and 1987, but both times the Generals fell in the Memorial Cup final, including in Oshawa to Medicine Hat in '87. Paul was named OHL coach of the year in 1986-87, and an OHL all-star coach in 1983 and 1987. Paul left the Generals after the 1988-89 season to take a job in the International Hockey League and also coached in Italy before spending a season in the NHL as an assistant coach with the Buffalo Sabres in 1996-97. He returned to the OHL with the Erie Otters and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds from 1998 to 2001 before heading overseas again, where he was named the Italian Ice Hockey Federation coach of the year in 2001-02 and led the Nippon Paper Cranes to a championship in 2007.Paul is currently suffering from the debilitating effects of post-concussion syndrome stemming from his days as a player at Lake Superior State.For his impressive coaching resume, Paul Theriault is a welcomed addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 1998
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Pedlars Softball Team 1948 & 1949:-b.jpg)
One of the most successful seasons in Oshawa's softball history came in 1948 when the Pedlar's Softball Team captured the Ontario Intermediate A championship from Sault Ste. Marie at Oshawa's Alexandra Park. This indeed was a fitting result to celebrate Oshawa's 25th anniversary in O.A.S.A. ranks. In 1949 the name Oshawa again appears in the O.A.S.A. list of champions when the Pedlar's Team successfully defended the All-Ontario Intermediate against North Bay, where all three games were played. The Pedlar's Team of 1948, 1949 brought great honour to the City and is worthy of induction into the Sports Hall of Fame.
Intermediate A Softball Team - 1948John G. Geikie, J.A. Morphy, T. Lodge, D. Smith, J. Janetos, M.E. Meulemeester, J.S. McConkey, J. George, P. Brownson, N. Northey, T.J. Rospond, N.W. Magee, E.J. Logeman, F.J. Foley, S.J. Stark, J.W. Wetherup, L.H. McIntyre, R.W. Tyson, W. Yorkevich, W.H. Cooper, F.R. Young, W.L. Keeler, A.A. Turner and J. Richards (Mascot)
Intermediate A Softball Team - 1949T.J. Rospond, A.A. Turner, W.F. Barker, W.H. Cooper (Captain), R. Nelson, W. Yourkevich, E.J. Logeman, W.L. Keeler, J.W. Wetherup, J.G. Geikie, J.A. Morphy, N.W. Magee, S.J. Stark, S. Waylett, J.S. McConkey, F.R. Young (Coach), F.J. Foley, M.E. Meulemeester, J. Richards, T. Lodge, D. Smith, P. Brownson, J. George
Year Inducted: 2019
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Peter Gordon:
Peter Gordon was a multi-sport athlete while at O’Neill Collegiate who went on to a distinguished basketball career at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). A native of Jamaica, Peter moved to Canada in 1974 and dominated the Oshawa sports scene during his high school days from 1981 to 1986. Although it would ultimately be in basketball where he would settle, Peter was also a tremendous soccer player, leading his Oshawa Turul under-15 club team to an Ontario Cup provincial title in 1981 and O’Neill to the 1984 Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) championship. In basketball, he led O’Neill to back-to-back Lake Ontario Secondary School Athletics (LOSSA) and Central Ontario Secondary Schools Association (COSSA) championships in 1984 and 1985. During his high school career, Peter led teams to nine LOSSA titles in soccer, basketball and volleyball, as well as seven COSSA championships and won eight team MVP awards. Although considered by some to be an even better soccer player, Peter focused on basketball at UPEI, where he would lead the Panthers to back-to-back Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championships in 1988 and 1989 and was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2001. He was a three-time recipient of the AUS most valuable player award in basketball and a three-time winner of UPEI’s outstanding male athlete of the year. He was named the AUS rookie of the year for men’s basketball in 1987, an AUS conference all-star in all five years and an All-Canadian in four seasons while finishing his university career ranked eighth all-time in AUS scoring with 1,639 points. Peter was voted as one of the top 100 Canadian university basketball players of all-time. In October of 2018, UPEI retired his number 34 and a scholarship has been developed in his name. After his playing career, Peter continued to be involved with the game as a coach. He was an assistant coach with the O’Neill Collegiate Senior Boys AAA team that won an OFSAA championship in 1992 and the Durham College men’s basketball team who won the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA) national championship in 1997. Peter moved on to be head coach of the Lords from 2000-2008.
Year Inducted: 1989
Birth Date: January 03, 1947
Home Town: South Porcupine
More about Peter Michael (The Hook) Landers:
In 1967, Peter pitched Scugog Cleaners to the OASA Junior Championship. The next 10 years saw Peter with Oshawa Tony's Senior A, who won 3 Ontario Championships, 2 Canadian Championships, 1 World Championship, and a Silver Medal at the 1969 Canadian Summer Games. In 1979, while pitching for Oshawa MCL Senior A, Peter recorded strikeout number 1,000 in the Ontario Fastball League.
Peter had over 75 no-hitters during his career. In 1968, he struck out 43 batters in pitching 23 innings in the Southern Ontario Finals. He pitched 2 no-hitters (one a perfect game) in the 1969 Canadian Summer Games. He pitched a no-hitter and won 5 games in the 1977 World Championships.
Year Inducted: 1987
Home Town: Armstrong
More about Peter Poole:
Peter Poole, the guiding force behind Windfields Farm, Oshawa for 36 years, saw Kentucky Derby winner Northern Dancer develop. Peter, born in Armstrong, B.C. in 1920, began his horse racing career when he joined Windfields Farm in 1950 as a foreman. In 1968 he became general manager until his retirement in 1986. Windfields, under Peter's leadership, bred more stakes winners than any other breeder in the world.
The farm boasted of three English Derby winners, three Irish Derby winners and twenty Queen's Plate winners. The golden jewel of Peter's career was the great Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, Northern Dancer whose birth Peter supervised and attended. Northern Dancer, after his racing career ended, went on to sire many great horses including Nijinsky, winner of the English triple crown. He became the greatest sire the world had ever known. Peter's own long and very successful career came to an end with his retirement in 1986.
Year Inducted: 2013
Birth Date: June 29, 1963
Home Town: Poland
More about Peter Sidorkiewicz:
Peter Sidorkiewicz, an Oshawa Minor Hockey graduate, went on to star for the Oshawa Generals and play in the National Hockey League.Born in Poland on June 29, 1963, Peter\'s family moved to Oshawa when he was a youngster. He starred in the Oshawa Minor Hockey Association, winning an Ontario Bantam Championship in 1977.He played with the Oshawa Generals from 1980 to 1984, leading the team to an Ontario Hockey League championship and Memorial Cup appearance in 1983.After being taken in the fifth round of the 1981 NHL draft by Washington, he made his NHL debut with the Hartford Whalers in 1988 and was named to the NHL\'s All-Rookie team in 1989. After four more seasons with Hartford, Peter moved to the expansion Ottawa Senators in 1992, and was the team\'s representative in the NHL All-Star game. He then moved on to the New Jersey Devils organization and retired in 1998. He finished his career playing in 246 regular season games.
Year Inducted: 2016
Birth Date: February 17, 1944
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Peter Stephenson:
Peter Stephenson was born in Oshawa on February 17, 1944. Although a strong player, Peter also had a major impact on the sport as a builder, where he has served as a coach, official and administrator, he was a coach at the 1974 Canada Winter Games, received a certificate of recognition for achievement in amateur sport in Ontario in 1986, won the Ontario Badminton President Award in 1987, 2004 and 2008, earned a Celebration 88 certificate of merit from the Canadian government in 1988, became a Badminton Canada life member in 2003 and won the Syl Apps special achievement award in 2007.He is a certified Level 2 coach, has been a national referee for more than 15 years, a national umpire for over 30 years and has officiated at all levels, including provincial and national championships and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. Peter started and coached a badminton program at Durham College and has served as president at the Oshawa YMCA, district president for the Ontario Central Region, and a director for the Ontario Badminton Association.Also prominent in the Boy Scouts of Canada for more than 35 years, Peter was recognized with the Silver Acorn Award, one of the highest awards for volunteering honors, in 1999.
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