Frank Keltos has spent his entire 18-year teaching career as a coach. His motivation for coaching girls and boys basketball, boys baseball and girls slo-pitch was a desire to give...
In Niagara basketball reffing circles, Azlan Bacchus is affectionately known as Mr. Saturday Night. The moniker attached to the 38-year-old Beamsville resident is in recognition of the fact that over...
If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaitlyn Brophy would have been in the midst of her second season with Niagara Juel Prep girls basketball team. Like all athletes of all...
The defence rests with Taryn Mitchell. The 17-year-old, Port Colborne resident is bringing a strong commitment to her play without the ball to the Niagara College Knights women’s basketball program....
Throughout his 20 years of officiating basketball, Ron Valente has used a common sense approach. “I like to think that my rule book is still in shrink wrap,” the 61-year-old...
Anthony Haughton enjoyed playing for a who’s who of St. Catharines coaches during his five years of basketball at Governor Simcoe. John Dakin was the point guard’s midget coach, Larry...
As an inaugural winner of the Canadian Basketball Officials Commission’s Executive Award of Merit, Michele O’Keefe is as pleased with the award as she is with the group awarding it....
Kevin Moore had no noble intentions when he decided to become a basketball ref 25 years ago. “A friend of mine (Mike Holmes), who I was teaching with, suggested that...
One look at Owen Dobbie’s face and you could tell the 17-year-old Pelham resident was loving his return to the basketball court. The Grade 12 student at E.L. Crossley was...
Allison Addy has decided to pursue her post secondary hoops dreams close to home. The 5-foot-11 star player with the Governor Simcoe Redcoats has set her sights on earning a...
