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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, March 6, 2015 | 8 Sharing a passion for sports at home and beyond continued from p.4 time medallist, son Mark into a Olympic medalwinning canoeist, and Mallorie Nicholson into a two-time world canoeing champ. "A few things stick out over the years," said Scott, 61, who worked for 20plus years as a labourer at Aldershot Structural Steel in Dundas, Ont., before becoming CanoeKayak Canada's national team coach in 2007. "The obvious would be the Olympic medals, but it's more than that. "I think in 20 years when I reflect back, it will be the everyday working with athletes, helping them and trying to get them to achieve their goals. There were cases where you kind of touch their lives personally in a positive way... There are a few athletes who I know their life was made better, not by me, but by being involved in the sport. It made a real difference in their minds, and that's pretty special." can do themselves. But in synchro, we could have 24-28 on a team. It was all about being a team," said the 76-year-old McLellan. "Finally, the girls had something they could do together." McLellan skated competitively for 25 years, some of that time spent with daughters Laura and Leanne as teammates, and attained the silver level in dance. After her active skating career FAMILY PRACTICE ended, she transitioned to team WALK-IN CLINIC Female and Male doctors accepting new patients management and also became a senior level international judge. LAB WORK · VACCINES McLellan is currently the manDR. 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"There's a lot about figure skating that only one per cent of the population Fran McLellan Steve Blundy joining them some day as a member. "I didn't think of things in terms of being a builder. I thought of the Olympians," McLellan said. "It's nice that (the hall is now) extracting from the community the people who do the volunteer thing." Steve Blundy Blundy was the first-ever student to graduate from Sheridan College (he studied applied arts, and the 1969 diplomas were handed out in alphabetical order), and he spent nearly the rest of his life giving back to the school. A three-time Ontario Hockey League champion who played hockey professionally for one season in Austria, Blundy began coaching Sheridan's men's team in 1980. He was behind the Bruins' bench for all but one year (when he assisted with the opening of the J.M. Porter Athletic Centre in 1984) until the program was retired in 1992, winning the provincial championship in 1983 and being named Ontario college coach of the year in 1987 and 1988. Blundy coached numerous Ron MacLean male and female hockey teams in the area as well, including Oakville Rangers and Hornets squads. He was inducted into the Ontario College Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 and into the Sheridan College Bruins Hall of Fame the following year. Blundy lost his battle with cancer last January, dying at the age of 68. "We've had a bit of a difficult year with recently passing the anniversary of his death," said Blundy's wife Pat, who met Steve at Sheridan, "but this has been a wonderful tribute to him... He would have been so proud, but he was a humble man. "Instilling upon these young people that hard work can take you a great distance (was important to him)." Ron MacLean MacLean is best known for covering professional hockey players during his time with Hockey Night in Canada, but he's always had a soft spot for amateur sport. "What struck me about the Nagano Olympics (in 1998, the first time NHLers participated in men's hockey competition) Royal Oak Clinic 905.827.7000 was that Wayne Gretzky was now sitting at the cafeteria table with (Canadian speed skater) Jeremy Wotherspoon. That's what it was all about.... Deep down, the pros are just as excited to sit with Mark Oldershaw. Wayne Gretzky would be just as thrilled as they'd be to sit with him." Over the years, MacLean has seen many of Canada's top amateur sports moments in person, hosting 10 Olympic Games and several Commonwealth Games. Last week, MacLean recalled how, after his mother died during the 2008 Olympics in Athens and he returned to Canada during the Games, he watched van Koeverden paddle to a silver medal on television in the early morning hours at Larry Cain's Burlington condominium. "I'm really excited for the group here tonight. I just take so much pride in what Larry Cain and Adam van Koeverden and the Oldershaws have meant to sport in our community. It's a great honour to share a night with them," MacLean said of his inclusion in the Oakville Sports Hall of Fame. "When you're a broadcaster -- people don't even recognize half the NHLers now because of visors and helmets and they move around so much -- you become a conduit, the storyteller.... If you didn't love sport the way they do, they'd see it and maybe keep you on the outs. But like the referees, we're here for them. "We're there to make a fair playing field, a good lifestyle setting. It's just a great example sport. 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