Lacrosse Legends

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 Junior B for both Akwesasne and Gloucester through 1992. He became a full time Senior Player in 1993 for the Akwesasne Thunder and was picked up by the Onondaga Redmen to play in the Presidents Cup and was named a 1...

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. He is known for bringing out the best in his teammates and was named Top Player in Quebec after posting 150 points. He saved some of his best performances for the Presidents Cup where he gained numerous MVP Awards, Leadi...

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. They won a Minto Cup in 1972. In 1973 Thomas headed west to tend goal for the Coquitlam Seniors for 10 years and single seasons with both New Westminster and the Vancouver Burrards. He had a lifetime save percentage of 7...

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 back from the precipice during the tough times and establishes itself on better footing. Its survival is uncanny and magical. The game was in dire straits at the end of the 1980’s. Internal mismanagement and the Federal design...

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 a constitution, by laws, incorporated the Federation, drafted an operations manual and established a democratic procedure. In 1975 he created the QSLL, a QJLL and in 1976 three QJLL (juvenile leagues). Filion organi...

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-star and won MVP awards in three seasons in the Junior "A" division, toiling for Burnaby Cablevision. When he was a Senior he collected top goalie awards in the WLA in 1973. He followed up this achievemen...

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 – near the Akwesasne Territory. White was presented the Gerald J. Carroll Jr. Exemplary Coaching Award for his efforts. White left Akwesasne to attend Mount Herman Prep School from 1966-1970 as a student-...

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 2019, finishing with a career record of 191-88-2 in 281 contests for an overall winning percentage of .684. He guided the program to nine CUFLA East pennants (2007, 2011-2017, 2019), four undefeated regu...

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 includes a career filled with coaching, officiating and administration. She has coached lacrosse in Baltimore County, New York State, at SUNY Buffalo and Niagara University. As an administrator she served as a Director on...

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 Minto Cups in 1976 and 1977. A perennial Junior A all-star, Wilson ended the 1977 campaign as league leading scorer with 196 points in just 28 games. Dan parlayed his talents in field lacrosse and was a member of th...

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 Junior. His legacy to the game is that of a builder and this started at age 17 when he was asked to coach and referee. He moved to New Brunswick and went to play for the local Saint John Junior team. They played tea...

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 event that laid the groundwork for the direction lacrosse would take in the future. It featured 5 teams from around the world travelling to British Columbia for the first truly international box lacrosse festival. Australia, Canada...

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 old (1974) the first girls teams started in Lakefield and Peterborough. In 1975 -76 she played on the bantam boys team in Bridgenorth as well as on the girls team. When she was in Grade 11-13 she was invited to play...

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 success as a Player, Coach and Ambassador for Canadian lacrosse for over 55 years. As a Player he learned from Jim Bishop in the 1968 Professional League and Bishop called him one of “...the top 5 players he had ever ha...

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 1969. He and his friends used Javex bottles with the face cut out and screwed to broom handles as lacrosse sticks. His father brought in real sticks from Ontario soon after for the kids to use. New Brunswick lacrosse took...

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 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 b...

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...

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. Niel...

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...

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...

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.

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 will to 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.