Lacrosse Legends

Cam Bomberry - Season 2Cam 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 playing for St. Catherine’s Junior A team when he was 15. He finished his junior career with the Six Nations Arrows and won the Minto Cup in 1992 and was captain of the first Indigenous based franchise to win a Minto Cup and won the Jim McConaghy MVP Trophy. The three-time All-American played NCAA lacrosse with Nazareth College from 1990 to 1994 in Rochester, New York, where he helped his team claim an NCAA championship title in 1992.On top of his minor league and college achievements, Cam was able to play professionally for eight seasons in the NLL with the Buffalo Bandits, the Rochester Knighthawks, and the New Jersey Storm. On the Ontario Lacrosse Association (OLA) circuit, he participated in three Mann Cup titles with the Six Nations Chiefs. His experience also stretches onto a number of national teams. He played for the U19 Canadian Men

Michelle Bowyer - Season 2Michelle is a pioneer of Canadian Women's Lacrosse and excelled in both the field and box versions of the game.Michelle Bowyer captained 11 consecutive BC Selects women’s field lacrosse championship teams between 1983 and 1992, but she got her start in box lacrosse in Port Coquitlam in 1972 and went on to win league, BC provincial and Canadian national championships with Burnaby’s Kirby’s Klipettes between 1976 and 1981.Possibly the best field lacrosse midfielder Canada has ever produced, captain Bowyer and her Team Canada teammates won bronze at the world championships in England in 1982 and finished a strong fourth in 1986 and 1989 at the World Championships in Philadelphia and Perth respectively. In 2009 Bowyer was recognized by the International Federation of Women’s Lacrosse for her outstanding participation and achievement in World Cup competition as a player, assistant coach and head coach for Team Canada Women’s Lacrosse.

John Grant Sr. and Jim Wasson - Season 2John and Jim are the definition of teammates. They played together on various teams from Minor Lacrosse to Senior Lacrosse and as Team Canada members and also for the Philadelphia Wings in the early version of the NLL.John Grant Sr. excelled in Box and Field Lacrosse. He played in Peterborough and was on the 1972 Minto Cup Champion as the MVP of the series, and 3 Mann Cup winners in 1973, 1982 and 1984 where he was MVP as a Peterborough Laker. Grant won a World Field Lacrosse Championship in 1978 and enjoyed 2 years of Pro Lacrosse in Philadelphia. In 1974 he finished fourth in league scoring and in 1975 finished sixth and set an NLL record for assists with 134.In 2007 he received the Merv Mackenzie award from the OLA, presented to the person who has done the most for the promotion of lacrosse in Ontario.John Grant Sr. is recognized as a member by the following Halls of Fame: Peterborough Hall of Fame, Sudbury Sports Hall of Fame, Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and the

Sam Seward - Season 2Sam 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 in the North Shore Minor Association and played through Junior B with them. He played Junior A with the Salmonbellies, and was brought up to play with the North Shore Indians Senior B Club. He played in the first World Box event in 1980 for the Can-Am Native team. In 1985 he won the Presidents Cup with the North Shore Senior B team.He transitioned in to coaching both Box and Field versions of the game and on numerous occasions he was named West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association Coach of the Year. In 2006 the Aboriginal Sports Circle named him National Aboriginal Coach of the Year. He has been Head Coach of both box and field teams in the North American Indigenous Games. Sam Seward is one of the great contributors to the game from the Squamish Nation.

Barb Boyes - Season 2Barb'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 1982. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the renowned Oshawa Lady Blue Knights Field Lacrosse Program since 2000. Through her programs, Barb Boyes has been responsible for dozens of Canadian girls playing NCAA and OUA lacrosse.Barb was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Sports Hall of Fame as a Builder in 1999. She was presented with the International Federation of the Women’s Field Lacrosse Association Recognition Award in 2007 and the Roots of the Game Award in 2000.

Bob Salt - Season 2Bob 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 playoff MVP award. He also played on three Mann Cup teams, twice with Vancouver in 1967 and 1975 and as a pickup player with New Westminster in 1972.Salt also showed his great leadership by coaching in the junior and senior leagues. He received both the W.C. Ellison Trophy (Most Valuable Player in the WLA league playoffs) and the Commission Trophy (Most Valuable Player in the WLA regular season) in 1975.In 1987 he was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in the Box Player category. He received the Dorothy Robertson Memorial Trophy as the WLA Coach of the Year in 2005.

Dean McLeod - Season 2Dean 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 international levels on behalf of Canada. Perhaps his greatest contributions have come through serving as Commissioner for Ontario’s Junior A League.Dean McLeod has provided a lifetime of service to lacrosse as builder of the game. His personal awards include: Ontario Lacrosse Association, Mr. Lacrosse Award (1985); Brampton Excelsior, Life Membership (1989); Ontario Lacrosse Association, Presidents Award (1990); Canadian Lacrosse Association, Presidents Award (1991); Named Ontario Jr A Playoff-MVP Award, Dean McLeod Award in 1997; Inducted, Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Builder (1998); Inducted, Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Builder (1999); and was a Recipient, Queen Elizabeth II, Diamond Jubilee Award in 2012.

Wayne Baker - Season 2Wayne 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 the West Coast. He tells his story of being lost through alcoholism and credits lacrosse for helping him find his way. Baker has made his mark in entertainment as an actor on both the big and small screens. Credits include: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, DaVinci’s Inquest, Pathfinder, Indian Horse, North of 60, the Canyonlands, Futureman, Blackstone and many more.Baker tells of his love of the game and the desire to be the best player he could be in a unique, far-reaching interview that lacrosse aficionados will greatly enjoy.

Carl White - Season 2Carl 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 1968. They also were Junior B OLA Champions in 1970 and 1971.He then left Akwesasne and Cornwall for Brooklin and Peterborough. White played senior lacrosse for the Brooklin Redmen in 1972. In 1973, he played for the Peterborough Lakers where they went on to become Mann Cup Champions that year.Carl White joined the Akwesasne Warriors from 1976 to 1985 and was a First Team All-Star in the 1978 Presidents’ Cup Championship Tournament.He went on to coach after his distinguished playing career. He was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1999.

Kevin Alexander - Season 2Kevin has been called the Wayne Gretzky of lacrosse because of his stick prowess and scoring ability. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1991 after retiring from box lacrosse in 1986. In the last year of his junior career – 1976 – he led Victoria to win the Minto Cup and was named MVP of the tournament.On the international front, Alexander represented Canada four times, winning All World Team and Best Midfielder honours in 1986.He returned to play two seasons with the NLL Buffalo Bandits in 1992-1993 and helped the team to the League Championship both years.

Bill Hutton - Season 2Bill is one of the consummate Builders of the game of lacrosse domestically and internationally. Over his long and illustrious career, he has coached at the minor level and served as President of both the Ontario Lacrosse Association and the Canadian Lacrosse Association—and just about everything else in between. He has been Chair of the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation and received many awards for his selfless service to the game, including Canada’s 125th Governor General’s Award, Ontario’s Mr. Lacrosse Award and a Life Membership, the CLA’s Lester B. Pearson Award, induction into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and many others.Bill also was one of the key drivers behind getting lacrosse recognized as Canada’s National Summer Sport in 1994. All this came from a person who had not played the game himself – an uncommon background in that regard.

Stew Begg - Season 2Stew 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 officiated at the Founders’ Cup, Presidents’ Cup and Mann Cup games as an official. After that he served as Referee-In-Chief (RIC) for the Founders’ Cup and Minto Cup, as well as the 2007 FIL World Indoor Championship (WILC) in Halifax.From 1999 through 2008 Stew was the CLA Chair of the Nationals Officials Certification Program. He is one of four Master Course Officiating Clinicians in Canada. From 2008-2016 he was the CLA VP of International Competitions.Over his career he has assessed more than 2,000 officials locally, nationally and internationally. Begg was RIC of the 2011 WILC in Prague. Begg also has convened national championships at all levels from 2012-2019.

Bobby Delormier, Bill Sunday and Ron Thomas - Season 2These three amigos have been friends for most of their lives. During their playing careers Sunday and Delormier were based out of Akwesasne and Thomas hailed from Six Nations. All three were inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1998.Delormier is best remembered for his shifty dodging ability. He was a member of championship teams in St. Regis in 1957-58, Niagara Falls in 1960 and Fort Erie in 1968/69. He was named MVP three times for these various teams.Sunday played for the St. Regis Indians during their heyday. He received his training by the legendary team that consisted of Angus Thomas, Angus George and Luis Sunday. They taught him to take the ball off the draw and create a fast-break and scoring opportunity using pure speed.Thomas made his name playing with the Brantford Warriors in the 60’s and 70’s and comes from a lacrosse family that included his brothers Ivan and Charlie, also OLHoF inductees. He was on the 1971 Mann Cup Championshi

Bill Bradley - Season 2Bill 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 scoring leader. Bill Bradley began his box career playing juvenile lacrosse in North Burnaby and lead the North Burnaby Norburns into the 1961 Minto Cup national junior final. During the next fourteen years, Bill played in Victoria, Coquitlam, and Windsor, Ontario, as well as Montreal and Maryland of the Professional (original) National Lacrosse League. He earned a reputation as one of the games hardest hitting defensive specialists, garnering seven first team all-star selections in the Western Lacrosse Association and one in the Ontario league. His career lacrosse statistics included 376 goals and 937 points in 498 games. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

Cap Bomberry - Season 2Cap 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 for his team and well respected by his community and peers". Cap played for the Oshweken Warriors from 1959-1973 and won the President's Cup in 1964, 1967 & 1968. He helped out in the minor organization from 1975-88. (13 years) and was a Team Manager/GM with the Jr. A Arrows from 1990-92 winning the Minto Cup in Coquitlam in 1992. This was the first indigenous team to win the Minto Cup.He was also the GM for the SN Chiefs from 1993-97 winning the Mann Cup in 1994, 1995,and 1996. Cap was President and GM Six Nations Rivermen from 2013-2019 winning the President's Cup in 2015 and 2019.Cap has received many accolades including induction into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 in the Builder Category. He went into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2001 as a Builder and became an OLA Life Member in 2006 and was presen

Al Luciuk - S2Al 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: locally, provincially, nationally and internationally. Al has taken skills learned as a professional teacher and brought them to benefit lacrosse.He has served for 15 years as the President of the Saskatoon Field Lacrosse Association. Al served with Saskatchewan’s Sr. Men’s Provincial Teams as a Player, Coach, and Team Captain for Fifteen Years winning Six National Titles including two Ross Cups and four Victory Trophies. As Head Coach for the Junior Men’s Provincial Teams he won two Silver medals and nine Bronze medals. He was the Men’s Field Sector Chairperson, and the President and a Lifetime Member for the Saskatchewan Lacrosse Association.As Coach of the Scorpion Lacrosse and Sturgis Trojan Lacrosse Teams his teams won five consecutive Provincial High School U19 Championships and twelve Provincial U19 Championship Title

Joanne Stanga - Season 2Joanne 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 and U19 National Teams for a 10 year period going back to 1993. She coached the Ontario Senior and Junior Teams beginning in 1990 through 2005, and coached locally in Orillia as well.Joanne shared her knowledge of the game as a Master Course Conductor up to 2016. As a player she competed for Canada, Ontario and as a Rep Player from 1978-2010.Along with Coaching and Playing Joanne served at all levels as a builder of the game through her Administrative acumen. This stretched through all levels - locally, provincially, nationally and internationally. She worked on developing the high school league and Summer Games as well.All this work brought her many accolades. She received Orillia’s Piper Bain Award and was named a Life Member there, collected the OLA Mr. Lacrosse Award, the CLA Lester B. Pearson Award, the IWFLA Recognition Award, and t

Tewanee Joseph - Season 2Tewanee Joseph was born in North Vancouver with a unique ancestry – half Squamish Nation and half Maori from New Zealand.Growing up on a Squamish reserve, Tewanee used his love of sports and natural athleticism to survive the rough-and-tumble challenges of reserve life. Playing lacrosse, soccer and basketball he earned the respect of many. As a teenager, Tewanee became captain of the North Shore Indians Lacrosse Club of the West Coast Senior Lacrosse League.He won four national championships in box and field lacrosse and had the opportunity to represent Canada on a Junior National team in 1989 and the Iroquois Nations at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.The North Shore Indians have a storied history in lacrosse. Tewanee had relatives on the 1936 team that made it all the way to the Mann Cup national championship final, and he followed in those same footsteps when he was growing up.“I love lacrosse. Every Friday night I’d go out to the games and watch the North Shore Indians. Th

Donald Barrie - Season 2Don started playing as a nine year old in 1949 in Peterborough. He played minor lacrosse in Peterborough, senior lacrosse in Brooklin, Peterborough, Sorel , Montreal ,Quebec City and Hastings.He started coaching in the Peterborough minor system in 1960, winning 10 Ontario titles and went on to coach Junior A lacrosse in Peterborough in 1970, 1971 and 1977. He advanced to coach the Major A Lakers in 1998 where he was named MSL Coach of the Year. At the professional level he was assistant coach with the NLL Philadelphia Wings in 1974 and head coach of the Maryland Arrows in 1975.At the international level Don was assistant coach of the World Champion Canada field lacrosse team in 1978, again in 1982, and was convener of the team in 1990.Don started writing a weekly sports column in the Peterborough Examiner in 1995, and continues to do so today. In 2008 he wrote a 600 page history of lacrosse in Peterborough; “Lacrosse: The Peterborough Way”. He went on to write two novels on lacrosse,

Welcome to Season 2 of The Lacrosse Legends Podcast SeriesRuss SheppardRuss was introduced to lacrosse in Saskatchewan through master coach Al Luciuk. He played some senior men’s lacrosse and began coaching youth in 1995. He moved to Nunavut as a teacher in 1998 and began the Kugluktuk Grizzlies lacrosse program in 1999. Soon after, he formed Nunavut Lacrosse. The journey of his program and the amazing impact the game had on the disenfranchised youth of the region has been captured in the recent release of the full-length motion picture “The Grizzlies.”This Lacrosse Talk will tell the story behind the initiative and the movie and will be of great interest to all who love this game. His involvement with the game did not end with the Grizzlies. Russ moved to Edmonton in 2005 and helped found the Edmonton Razorbacks. He coached the Midget A Warriors, the Sherwood Park Titans Junior B, Team Alberta Box Midget and Bantam, and Team Alberta U16 and U19.He signed a Life Rights Movie deal in 2006 for the Grizzlies pro