Podcasts by Lacrosse Legends

Thomas Family Lacrosse Legends from 2023-07-26T04:00:03

There are a number of families that are synonymous with the game of lacrosse. The Thomas family is one of them. Join Steve and Ron Thomas as they tell stories of their lacrosse careers at the local...

Lacrosse Legend Walter Goodleaf from 2023-07-20T12:45:09

Walter “Butch” Goodleaf received his first lacrosse stick at age 7 from his Grandmother. This humble start lead to his well-deserved induction into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He would displ...

Lacrosse Legend Joe Curotte from 2023-07-13T19:58:05

Joe Curotte is known as one of the toughest defensemen to come out of Kahnawake. His playing career stretched from 1965 through 1980 for both the Junior and Senior Caughnawaga Indians teams.
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Lacrosse Legend Dennis Joseph from 2023-07-07T18:36:05

Dennis Joseph descends from a long line of lacrosse players. His father, Willard Joseph, played box and field lacrosse for the famed North Shore Indians teams. Dennis Joseph’s grandfather , Andrew ...

Lacrosse Legend Barry Powless from 2023-06-14T16:15:15

Barry Powless has made his mark in lacrosse on both sides of the border as a player, coach and manager in both the box and field versions of the game. While at Lafayette H.S. near Syracuse he was n...

Lacrosse Legends Roundpoint Family from 2023-06-07T19:57:06

Lacrosse Legend Jim Bishop from 2023-05-18T17:30:26

As our interview team conducted dozens of interviews across Canada over the last 4 years one
name kept popping up – Jim Bishop. Bishop is one of the most well-known names in the game.
He ...

Lacrosse Legend Bob Parry from 2023-05-14T17:57:41

After leading the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League in scoring in 1954, Bob Parry went on to an
outstanding Senior A career with the Vancouver Burrards, winning the Inter-City Lacrosse
League...

Lacrosse Legend Gary Bottomley from 2023-05-03T04:00:02

Gary Bottomley was introduced to the game in 1968 and began to play in 1969.

He has continued to play, coach, coordinate leagues and run skill development programs for Tyke to Senior pla...

Lacrosse Legend Jojie Engemann (Son of Legend) from 2023-04-26T04:00:03

Our interview with Jojie Engemann is unique in that he is a son talking about his parents and their legendary contributions to the game.

And Jojie was a fine player in his own right. R...

Lacrosse Legend Joe Cambria from 2023-04-19T04:29:37

Lacrosse Legend Monty Slingerland from 2023-04-12T04:00:02

Monty Slingerland learned his lacrosse on the dirt floor of an outdoor rink within view of the Niagara Escarpment and Wine Country.

He loved being involved in all facets of the game, add...

Lacrosse Legend Wayne Shuttleworth from 2023-04-05T04:00:03

Wayne Shuttleworth is known as a fine scorer and a rugged competitor. He was a member of four Mann Cup Championship teams for three different clubs.

He had been a late starter to lacross...

Lacrosse Legend Wayne Finck from 2023-03-29T04:00:02

The Maritimes is an area for growth for lacrosse in Canada. There are some important individuals that
brought it forward.Wayne Finck can easily be referred to as the “Father of Maritime Lacros...

Lacrosse Legend Troyhann Santos from 2023-03-22T03:41:47

Troyhann Santos is a trailblazer.

She was made a Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee this past fall.

It was just one of a number of inductions for her which include the On...

Lacrosse Legend Cheryl MacNeill from 2023-03-15T04:00:02

It is one thing to launch a program.

Eventually that energy dissipates and some important work begins in order to keep the program going. Cheryl MacNeill really stepped up after the grea...

Lacrosse Legend Women’s Field Lacrosse - Part 2 from 2023-03-09T03:18:26

Lacrosse Legend Women’s Field Lacrosse - Part 1 from 2023-03-01T05:00:02

Women’s field lacrosse in Canada had very humble beginnings.

There were two small programs operating out of British Columbia and Ontario. The women who played in these programs were mai...

Lacrosse legend Jim Price from 2023-02-23T02:04:21

Jim Price can quite possibly claim the title of “Father of Canadian Field Lacrosse Officiating”. He
would not think of himself in that way but the hundreds of officials he developed in Canada ...

Lacrosse Legend Craig Moore from 2023-02-15T05:00:02

Craig Moore is a Maritimer who has given and received a great deal from his involvement with lacrosse.

He started out participaing in the Sackville Minor Lacrosse Association and played ...

Lacrosse Legend Jim Aitchison from 2023-02-08T05:00:02

Aitchison or “Aichy” was born and raised in New Westminster, B.C., but he never played as a Salmonbellie.

His career was as unique as his personality and he came to the game later than m...

Lacrosse Legend Butch Keegan from 2023-02-01T05:00:02

Brian “Butch” Keegan had a lacrosse career that many would dream about. He had great success as a player and a coach.

Keegan was one of the top scorers in both Junior and Senior Lacrosse...

Lacrosse Legend Bill Lefeuvre from 2023-01-25T05:00:02

Bill Lefeuvre was inducted nto the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2002. His induction was fitting as he was a member of the core group that built the institution having raised much of the funding...

Lacrosse Legend A.J. Jomha from 2023-01-18T05:00:02

A.J. Jomha is one of the great lacrosse people to come out of Alberta.

He has excelled as a player, coach and builder of the game at all levels – local to national.

Jomha star...

Lacrosse Legend Ron Pinder from 2023-01-11T05:00:02

Ron Pinder grew up in Richmond, B.C.

His first national championship came in the form of a Minto Cup ring playing for the legendary Richmond Roadrunners team in 1971.

He would...

Mike Benedict Jr. - S3 from 2022-05-26T04:00:02

Mike Benedict Jr. Has had a lifelong involvement with the game starting with a great high school career from 1986-1989 at Salmon River High School in New York State.

He went on to play ...

Barry Alfred - S3 from 2022-05-19T04:00:03

Barry Alfred was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2013.

Alfred is known for his leadership and was selected Team Captain many times in his career with Kahnawake.
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Greg Thomas - S3 from 2022-05-12T04:00:02

Greg Thomas was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006.

He began his 27 year lacrosse career in Peterborough including four seasons on the P.C.O’s Junior A team.
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Bill C212 - S3 from 2022-05-05T03:36:36

Bill C-212

Throughout history the fortunes of the game of lacrosse have ebbed and flowed.

The game has enjoyed some great times and some bleak ones. Somehow the game fights ...

Pierre Filion - S3 from 2022-04-28T04:00:03

Pierre Filion established the Quebec provincial lacrosse governing body from the ground up. He was hired in 1975 as Technical Director of the Québec Lacrosse Federation.

Filion drafted ...

Dave Evans - S3 from 2022-04-21T04:00:02

Dave Evans has made his mark in lacrosse as both a Builder and a Player in both the Box and Field versions of the game, for both the Men’s and the Women’s versions. As a player he was made an all-s...

David White - S3 from 2022-04-14T15:53:54

Dave White is known as one of the great high school lacrosse coaches of all time. He ran the program at Salmon River Central School for 33 years. The school is located in Fort Covington, New York –...

Tim Murdoch - S3 from 2022-04-07T04:32:07

Tim Murdoch has been a long-time resident of Montreal, having his start in Princeton, New Jersey. He volunteered for 17 seasons as the head coach of McGill men’s varsity lacrosse team from 2003 to ...

Carol Patterson - S3 from 2022-03-31T04:00:04

Carol Patterson is one of the most important women in building international lacrosse and helping to launch Canada’s involvement with the women’s field game.

Her lacrosse resume includ...

Dan Wilson - S3 from 2022-03-24T04:00:02

Dan Wilson was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in the Class of 2011.

This Junior A lacrosse star played for the famed Burnaby Cablevision in the late 70’s, winning two ...

Dave Arsenault - S3 from 2022-03-17T04:00:02

Dave Arsenault was introduced to lacrosse at the 1969 Canada Summer Games held in Halifax when he was 14 years old.

He would play for Dartmouth, Shearwater, and Sackville for a year of ...

Nations 80 Cup - S3 from 2022-03-10T05:00:03

There are certain stories that are legendary in their own right.

They are bigger than a single individual and affect the sport in a major way.

The Nations 80 Cup was an even...

Kerri Hardill - S3 from 2022-03-03T05:00:03

Kerri Hardill received her first lacrosse stick for Christmas when she was 4 years old.

She remembers attending the lacrosse school for girls in Peterborough at age 11 and at 12 years o...

Medo Martinello - S3 from 2022-02-24T05:00:03

Windsor’s Miro “Medo” Martinello is a builder of the game and was recognized for this through his induction into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2005.

Medo attained tremendous succ...

Bruce Logan - S3 from 2022-02-17T05:00:03

Bruce Logan was nominated and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for
volunteer activities with The CLA and Lacrosse New Brunswick in 2012.

The beginning was in 1...

Stan Cockerton - S3 from 2022-02-10T05:00:03

Stan has served as the Executive Director of the OLA since 1986, after first launching his career in
amateur sport in 1982 as the OLA Program Director, before being promoted to OLA Technical D...

Louis Delisle - S3 from 2022-02-03T05:00:03

Louis Delisle was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2014. His involvement began with minor lacrosse from 1955-64.

He won two Quebec Junior Championships in 1966 and 196...

Frank Nielsen - S3 from 2022-01-27T05:00:03

Frank Nielsen is known as a solid, knowledgeable lacrosse competitor.

He had an 11 year stint in the Western Lacrosse Association Sr. A League playing for the Coquitlam Adanacs from 197...

Stephen Brown - S3 from 2022-01-20T05:00:03

Steve Brown has been a builder of the game in the Maritimes. He has 35 plus years as an administrator for the game as well as 30 plus years as a player and a coach. He has also refereed for over 20...

Michael Kanatakeron Mitchell - S3 from 2022-01-13T05:00:02

Mike was born into lacrosse; both of his parents were involved in the making of the hickory lacrosse stick, a piece of the game that embodies the traditional and spiritual values of the game, a tra...

Gail Cummings-Danson - S3 from 2022-01-06T10:00:02

Gail Cummings-Danson

The first Canadian female lacrosse player to get a full-ride scholarship to an American university, the Team Canada alumna remains Temple's all-time points leader.

150th Anniversary of Lacrosse Celebration from 2020-12-23T18:24:11

The CLF organized the 150th Anniversary of Lacrosse Celebration in June 2017.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime event that celebrated the history and cultural significance of Canada's natio...

Lacrosse Talks Special - John Grant and Jim Wasson from 2020-12-17T05:00:10

John Grant and Jim Wasson – Life-long Teammates and Star Players. They share the will
to be the best.

Lacrosse Talks Special - Donald Barrie from 2020-12-10T05:00:20

Don Barrie – Historian, Coach and Player during Peterborough’s Golden Years.

Lacrosse Talks Special - Russ Sheppard from 2020-12-03T15:12:03

Russ Sheppard – Passionate Coach and Teacher featured in The Grizzlies movie.

Lacrosse Talks Special - Jack Fulton from 2020-11-26T05:00:18

Jack Fulton – One of the most notable West Coast Builders of the Game

Lacrosse Talks Special - Bruce MacDonald and David Stewart-Candy from 2020-11-19T05:00:18

Bruce MacDonald and David Stewart-Candy – Accomplished B.C. historians connected
with the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum

Lacrosse Talks Special - Bobby Allan from 2020-11-12T13:47

Bobby Allan – One of the great players, coaches and innovators in the game.

Lacrosse Talks Special - Don Fisher from 2020-11-05T05:00:20

Lacrosse Talks Special
Don Fisher – One of North America’s top lacrosse historians

Peter Black - S2 from 2020-10-29T04:00:10

Peter Black - Season 2

Peter led the powerful Vancouver, British Columbia Burrards to the Mann Cup finals five times and four times his mates came away victorious.

During his...

Ernie Mitchell - S2 from 2020-10-23T12:02:10

Ernie Mitchell - Season 2

Ernie had numerous career playing highlights before he turned to coaching. He was the starting goalie for the NLL Montreal Les Quebecois in 1974-1975. In 1980 i...

Bruce Wanless - S2 from 2020-10-15T04:00:19

Bruce Wanless - Season 2

Bruce is known as one of the game’s greatest defensive players.

He was inducted into the Brampton Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1987 , the Ontario Lacross...

Bruce Roundpoint - S2 from 2020-10-08T04:00:14

Bruce Roundpoint - Season 2

Bruce was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 representing
Akwesasne.

Bruce’s family is known for being important stickma...

Johnny Davis - S2 from 2020-10-01T04:00:18

Johnny Davis - Season 2

Johnny is the most prolific scorer in the past 60 years of box lacrosse.

In his rookie year with Peterborough, Ontario, in 1966 he scored 51 goals and...

Jim Burke - S2 from 2020-09-24T04:00:03

Jim Burke - Season 2

Jim won the Jim McFall Award in 1985 for dedication and leadership to the game of lacrosse in Alberta. Burke started field lacrosse in Calgary and co-coached the 198...

Cam Bomberry - S2 from 2020-09-16T04:00:03

Cam Bomberry - Season 2

Cam began playing lacrosse when he was just three years old.

He worked his way through the Six Nation’s minor league box lacrosse program and began pl...

Michelle Bowyer - S2 from 2020-09-09T04:00:21

Michelle Bowyer - Season 2

Michelle is a pioneer of Canadian Women's Lacrosse and excelled in both the field and box versions of the game.

Michelle Bowyer captained 11 consecu...

John Grant Sr. and Jim Wasson - S2 from 2020-09-03T04:00:17

John Grant Sr. and Jim Wasson - Season 2

John and Jim are the definition of teammates.

They played together on various teams from Minor Lacrosse to Senior Lacrosse and as Tea...

Sam Seward - S2 from 2020-08-27T13:34:02

Sam Seward - Season 2

Sam is from the Squamish Nation and has been involved with lacrosse for almost 60 years as a player, Coach and Manager.

As a player he got his start as ...

Barb Boyes - S2 from 2020-08-20T04:00:15

Barb Boyes - Season 2

Barb's contribution to Women’s Field Lacrosse in Ontario and Canada goes back to her representing Canada in the first Women’s World Field Lacrosse Championship in 1...

Bob Salt - S2 from 2020-08-12T04:00:09

Bob Salt - Season 2

Bob was a league all-star eight times, winner of the Maitland Trophy for play, sportsmanship, and contributing to minor lacrosse, and was twice awarded the Commission...

Dean McLeod - S2 from 2020-08-06T13:48:50

Dean McLeod - Season 2

Dean has a long list of accomplishments involving Brampton and both the Mann Cup and Minto Cup.

He has also been involved at both the national and inte...

Wayne Baker - S2 from 2020-07-30T04:00:20

Wayne Baker - Season 2

Wayne has a life and lacrosse journey that is remarkable.

The North Shore Squamish player and coach comes from one of the “lacrosse royal families” on ...

Carl White - S2 from 2020-07-23T04:00:20

Carl White - Season 2

Carl played minor lacrosse on Cornwall Island, and then Jr. B for the St. Regis Braves from 1967 to 1971. The Braves were the Junior B Quebec Champions in 1967 and ...

Kevin Alexander - S2 from 2020-07-16T04:00:09

Kevin Alexander - Season 2

Kevin has been called the Wayne Gretzky of lacrosse because of his stick prowess and scoring ability.

He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Ha...

Bill Hutton - S2 from 2020-07-09T04:00:13

Bill Hutton - Season 2

Bill is one of the consummate Builders of the game of lacrosse domestically and internationally.

Over his long and illustrious career, he has coached a...

Stew Begg - S2 from 2020-07-02T15:15:49

Stew Begg - Season 2

Stew has officiated and administrated lacrosse officials at all amateur levels since 1962 when he started with the game in Cornwall, Ontario. Up until 1998 he had of...

Bobby Delormier, Bill Sunday and Ron Thomas - S2 from 2020-06-25T13:20:51

Bobby Delormier, Bill Sunday and Ron Thomas - Season 2

These three amigos have been friends for most of their lives. During their playing careers Sunday and Delormier were based out of A...

Bill Bradley - S2 from 2020-06-18T04:00:21

Bill Bradley - Season 2

Bill Bradley is regarded as one of the greatest Adanacs ever, and he was certainly the club's spiritual leader for all those years while Mike Gates was the scorin...

Cap Bomberry - S2 from 2020-06-11T14:49:44

Cap Bomberry - Season 2

Cap has been involved in lacrosse for over 60 years. At his induction into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame it was said, "Cap is renowned for recruiting players ...

Al Luciuk - S2 from 2020-06-04T13:00:43

Al Luciuk - S2

Al Luciuk is known for his involvement in many areas in growing the game. He is a builder of field lacrosse in Saskatchewan and has worked at all levels of the game: loca...

Joanne Stanga - S2 from 2020-05-28T04:00:18

Joanne Stanga - Season 2

Joanne Stanga is one of the important women who helped to build Canadian Women’s Field Lacrosse.

She was the Head Coach and Assistant Coach of Senior...

Tewanee Joseph - S2 from 2020-05-21T04:00:02

Tewanee Joseph - Season 2

Tewanee Joseph was born in North Vancouver with a unique ancestry – half Squamish Nation and half Maori from New Zealand.

Growing up on a Squamish re...

Donald Barrie - S2 from 2020-05-14T04:00:19

Donald Barrie - Season 2

Don started playing as a nine year old in 1949 in Peterborough. He played minor lacrosse in Peterborough, senior lacrosse in Brooklin, Peterborough, Sorel , Mon...

Russ Sheppard - S2 from 2020-05-07T04:00:16

Welcome to Season 2 of The Lacrosse Legends Podcast Series

Russ Sheppard

Russ was introduced to lacrosse in Saskatchewan through master coach Al Luciuk. He played some senior ...

Dwight Maetche from 2019-06-25T14:34:17

Dwight Maetche was born in Edmonton and was recruited to play goal for the BC Jr. League Burnaby Cablevision. He was a Western Lacrosse Association (WLA) all-star in 1980 and ’81.

Maetc...

Robert Hanna from 2019-06-25T14:20:35

Robert Hanna was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 as a player for Toronto and Jim Bishop. He won the Merv McKenzie MVP Trophy in the 1967 senior “A” series and was a member o...

Russ Heard from 2019-06-18T13:00:21

Russ Heard was a stellar lacrosse player whose career spanned over 20 years in Jr. A, WLA and the NLL.

In the WLA, Heard scored more than 1,000 points, was three times WLA scoring leader...

William "Whitey" Frick from 2019-06-18T13:00:21

NAME: William “Whitey” Frick

INDUCTED: 1997 TEAM: St. Catharines
POSITION: Builder – COACH & BUILDER OVER 35 YEARS – ST. CATHARINES OLD BOY’S ASSOCIATION 30 YEARS – MAYOR’S AWARD ...

Dave "The Dude" Durante from 2019-06-04T13:00:16

Dave Durante - Colourful nicknames have followed Dave Durante throughout his two decade lacrosse career: Dave the Magnificent, Dandy Dave and Dave the Dude; all adorned him as well
as one of h...

James Brady from 2019-06-04T13:00:16

Jim Brady - Inducted CLHOF: 1998

Team: Whitby / St. Catharines
Position: Builder
– Minto Cup Championship Teams 1980, 90, 91, 97.
– OLA JR.”A” Coach of the Year 1984, 89, ...

Tom Parker from 2019-05-21T13:00:13

Tom Parker - Manitoba

Tom began playing lacrosse at Kelvin Community Centre when he was 18 years old . Since the early 1960s, he has played a major role in the promotion, development and...

Gord Gimple from 2019-05-21T13:00:13

Gordon Gimple

Gord Gimple played on Minto Cup championship teams in 1954 and 1956 before graduating to Senior.

One of the few players who was effective shooting from either s...

William K.C. "Casey" Cook from 2019-05-07T13:00:14

William K.C. "Casey" Cook was born in The Hague, Holland in 1945 and his family moved to Burnaby, BC in 1950.

He graduated from Burnaby Central high school and played his junior lacrosse...

Morley Kells from 2019-05-07T13:00:14

Morley Kells was born in Midland, Ontario in 1936.

He was raised in Mimico in the southern part of Etobicoke in west Toronto, Ontario.

He was a lacrosse player from 1954 to 1...

Wayne and Ed Goss from 2019-04-23T13:00:13

Wayne and Ed Goss

Wayne Goss:

Wayne excelled at all aspects of lacrosse from goal scoring and play making to
penalty killing and face-offs.

Between 1968 and 1...

Al "Lurch" Lewthwaite from 2019-04-23T13:00:13

Al Lewthwaite was a giant on the lacrosse floor in stature, strength and talent.

But like Achilles of mythical antiquity, Big Al Lewthwaite had his weakness: a battered knee that hobble...

Paul Parnell from 2019-04-09T13:00:10

Paul Parnell was born March 28, 1938, in Peterborough, Ontario.

He began playing lacrosse in Peterborough and played 2 seasons of Senior for
Peterborough in 1958 & 59.

I...

Barb Cormier&Ruby Lang from 2019-04-09T13:00:10

Barb Cormier
INDUCTED OLHoF: 2007
TEAM: Etobicoke
POSITION: Builder

It was for the love of the game and the benefit of all children of Etobicoke that she donated 25 plus ...

Alfred Jacques from 2019-03-26T13:00:16

Alfred Jacques - "The Stick Maker" - Ontario Hall of Fame Inductee

Alf grew up in the world of lacrosse and learned the art of making lacrosse sticks from his father and fellow Inductee ...

Jack Fulton from 2019-03-26T13:00:16

Jack Fulton Sr. (New Westminster, B.C.)

Jack got involved in lacrosse in 1955.

For 11 years, he served as team manager, then as general manager, for the New Westminster Salm...

George "Jeep" Woolley from 2019-03-12T12:00:07

George “Jeep” Woolley – Manitoba

Started playing lacrosse with the Deer Lodge Hornets under the direction of Tom O’Brien. After capturing numerous minor league titles, Jeep went on to p...

Bobby Allan from 2019-03-12T12:00:07

Bobby Allan (Peterborough, Ontario)

In his heyday, Bobby Allan was in a class by himself, the finest lacrosse player in Canada. His consummate skill, agility and adroitness in faking a m...

Harry Nightengale from 2019-02-26T15:00:04

Born in 1936, Harry started playing lacrosse at Kelvin Community Club at age twelve after buying an old beat up wooden lacrosse stick from the neighbour across the lane.

He fell in love...

George "Potsy" Burrows from 2019-02-26T15:00:04

George “Potsy” Burrows

– Involved in lacrosse since 1926 at the age of 8 and is still involved today 84 years later.
– His involvement in the game has ranged from being a goaltender...

Lacrosse Legends - Launching Feb 26 from 2019-02-08T18:54:05

The first episode drops February 26th!!!