Lacrosse Legends

Stan has served as the Executive Director of the OLA since 1986, after first launching his career inamateur sport in 1982 as the OLA Program Director, before being promoted to OLA Technical Director and eventually to the position of Executive Director – a position the held for 35 years.Stan began his legendary playing career when he picked up his first lacrosse stick at the age of 12. He would become an all-star box player for Oshawa. His playing style was an immediate threat to his opponent’s goaltenders. As a Junior “A” player, Stan ranked 5th in All-Time Goals with 319 goals for the Gaels, and was named Most Valuable Player in Junior “A” in 1975 and 1976, as well as being named Major Series Lacrosse’s Rookie of the Year in 1977.Stan’s international career began in 1976 as a three-time member of Team Canada’s field lacrosseprogram (1978, 1982 and 1990), leading Team Canada to a World Championship gold medal in 1978 by scoring six goals and tallying three assists, including the game-winner in the 17-16 overt

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 1967. His Senior Career spanned from 1968-1988 with the Caughnawaga Indians and the Kahnawake Mohawks, playing in 5 President Cups and winning a Silver Medal in 1969. His accomplishments were noted in 1970 when he won the Thorpe-Longboat Award for outstanding lacrosse and hockey achievement.Delisle’s record as a Coach and Builder is equally impressive. He was a founding member of both the Caughnawaga Minor Lacrosse Association and the Caughnawga Indians Senior Team. These and other contributions led to him receiving the Quebec Lacrosse Volunteer of the Decade Award for the 70’s. He was Quebec Coach of the Year in 1979.Louis has coached in every decade since the 60’s and continues with high school lacrosse today. He runs local clinics at this time. He played a major role in the 150 th Anniversary of Lacrosse Celebration organizing

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 1976 – 1984 and the New Westminster Salmonbellies from 1985-1986. He was known for his defense and faceoff abilities and was made the Alternative Captain for Canada West in the 1980 Nations World Box Championship.Nielsen moved on to coaching after his playing days and brought the Coquitlam Adanacs to the Mann Cup in 1998 for the first time. He also coached the Coquitlam Junior Adanacs while in the organization.He shared his deep knowledge of the game as one of the contributing authors of the BCLA Coach Drill Manual for Box Lacrosse.He had great success as an international coach of Team Canada, capturing Silver Medals in 1998 an 2002. He capped those honours off with a Gold Medal performance at the 2006 World Field Championships held in London, Ontario. It was Canada’s first Gold since 1978.For these achievements, Frank was selecte

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 years. He has done it all. Brown has played in Founders, President’s and Victory Cup tournaments and was named as an MVP and All Star as a player in the Maritime Junior League.He has coached at all age levels for Sackville Minor Lacrosse, Sackville Wolves Senior Lacrosse, Canada Summer Games Teams, and Nova Scotia Provincial teams . In 1974 he was a co-founder of the Sackville Wolves Lacrosse Association and in 2000 he was co-founder of the Metro Minor Lacrosse League. Brown has served as Commissioner of the Nova Scotia Senior Men’s Lacrosse League, Commissioner of the East Coast Junior Lacrosse League and was VP of Operations for Lacrosse Nova Scotia from 1997-2014.He gained international experience by coordinating the Organization Committee for the 2007 World Indoor Lacrosse Championships that were held in Halifa

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 tradition which was passed on to Mike at a very early age. From a playing standpoint, Mike played in the St. Regis, Cornwall Island & Cornwall Minor Lacrosse systems of eastern Ontario & western Quebec for many years and is considered by many to be one of the best face-off man and stick handler to come out of Akwesasne.Mike's greatest contributions to the game of lacrosse is quite possibly his quiet determination to promote the game of lacrosse as the Creator's Game and that it's a game of thanksgiving to the Creator for all He has provided to us. While Dr. William George Beers is considered the Father or founder of the modern game of lacrosse, Mike has been and continues to be a true champion of the game nationally and internationally - not just for the Mohawk people, but for all other First Nation people.In 1

Gail Cummings-DansonThe 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.

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 national summer sport through a formal event in Montreal, Quebec.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Black - Season 2Peter led the powerful Vancouver, British Columbia Burrards to the Mann Cup finals five times and four times his mates came away victorious. During his eleven-year playing career, Black participated in 399 games, scoring 443 goals and 320 assists for 763 points. He also shared the rookie-of-the-year award and was on five all-star teams.Whenever Vancouver would play New Westminster, the boys in blue would stick Black on superstar Jack Bionda. Bionda would be in for the time of his life trying to free himself from Black's tenacity. Black wasn't overly strong, but he was tough and very dogged, making him a nightmare to play against. Players knew they were not going to have an easy shift if Black was on the floor against them.After his playing days were over, Peter coached the Burrards for five years, coached the New Westminster juniors for two years, coached minor lacrosse in Coquitlam, and sat on the Board of Governors of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame

Ernie Mitchell - Season 2Ernie 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 in Vancouver, Mitchell and an Iroquois Nations team won silver at the World Box Lacrosse Championship, an event at which he was accorded all-star honours. Mitchell would go on to play for the Akwesasne Warriors Senior B team in the Quebec league in the mid-eighties. In 1990, he ran the Old Sticks loop and his team captured the national crown in B.C.Mitchell's coaching career flourished in the mid-nineties, when the Akwesasne Thunder senior B club he had established in 1993 won two Presidents’ Cup in 1995 and 1997.Mitchell would be the first coach of the Thunder when the club, under owner Fabian Hart, went to the senior A level, and he would come back for a second Thunder coaching stint in 2004.Mitchell was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2007.

Bruce Wanless - Season 2Bruce 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 Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2002.Bruce did not begin playing until 1955 as a 17 year old. He ended in 1972 having played withthe Brampton Excelsiors mainly, and the professional Detroit team in 1968 and Kitchener in1969. He won three Minto Cups for Brampton and played in four Mann Cups, winning one ofthem for Port Credit as a pick-up.Wanless won the McIntosh Award as OLA Jr. A MVP in 1959, and the OLA Senior A MervMcKenzie Awrd as Best Defensive Player on four occasions. He played against and earned therespect of some of the game’s Legends including: Johnny Davis, Bobby Allan and Jack Bionda.

Bruce Roundpoint - Season 2Bruce was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 representingAkwesasne. Bruce’s family is known for being important stickmakers for the game, at one timesupplying 97% of the game’s sticks worldwide.He was Captain of the All-Star Native Team that played in the 1980 Commonwealth Games.Bruce played for the Montreal Les Quebecois in the original National LacrosseLeague under legendary coach Jim Bishop.Roundpoint was the scoring champ for both the Akwesasne warriors in 1977 and the CornwallIsland Thunder Birds in 1981.

Johnny Davis - Season 2Johnny 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 had 69 assists, capping it off with a Mann Cup and a Mike Kelly MVP Medal as the Rookie of the Year. Davis won 4 Minto Cups in his Junior years. For eight seasons John dominated the Ontario Lacrosse Association in scoring and was an 8 time All Star. He ended his career with Montreal of the Professional League in 1975 and scoring 91 points. Davis played Sr. B in Montreal in 1976 and 1977. Johnny Davis ended up with 2 Mann Cups and 2 Mike Kelly Awards.

Jim Burke - Season 2Jim 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 1989 U19 National Champions for field lacrosse. He was the winner of the 1991 Joe Nieuwendyk Award for dedication to the growth and development to the sport of lacrosse in Calgary. Burke then became the president of the Alberta Lacrosse Association for four years.Burke served as the Alberta representative to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Lacrosse Association for two years. This grew to becoming a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Lacrosse Association for three years and Men’s Field Sector Chair of the Canadian Lacrosse Association for one year. Burke served as the Prairie Director of the Canadian Senior Men’s National team for two years and was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation in 1996.Jim Burke became Canadian Lacrosse Association President from 1999 – 2003, an