Lorry Moffatt

Lorry Moffatt became a Golf Ontario Tournament Official in 1980, a Level 4 rules official in 1990 and referees to this day. He continues to help at many Provincial and National Championships and Qualifiers, offering his knowledge and experience to people at every level and has provided over 40 years of officiating at National and Provincial golf tournaments on behalf of Golf Canada. Moffatt continues to contribute his knowledge of the game of Golf through club seminars on the rules of golf and provides support to junior golfers at the Weston Golf and Country Club, he also officiates Provincial & Club tournaments. He is a remarkable source of Canadian golf history and has had experience with most of the Canadian golfers currently on tour.

In 2018, Lorry was awarded The Dick Grimm Distinguished Service Award which is considered the highest honor recognizing individual service to the game of golf in Ontario. The award is named after Richard H. Grimm, who was affectionately known as “Mr. Canadian Open” for his service to the event from 1965 to 1993. Golf Ontario’s Dick Grimm Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual’s meritorious service as a volunteer. Recipients of this award embody the principles of integrity, dignity and commitment, which are central to the volunteer experience and to Mr. Grimm’s persona. As a point of interest, Moffatt caddied for Fred Hawkins in the famed 1955 Canadian Open Championship at Weston Golf and Country Club finding himself in the last group on Sunday, a front row seat to watch the “King” Arnold Palmer hoist the Seagram Cup for his 1st PGA Tour victory.

Lorry can be found at Weston Golf Club most days for a late lunch. He has a broad range of friends at the club and is an avid enthusiast for sport in general. He can also be found at Woodbine Race Track and is an avid horse racing fan. He continues to run a trophy business Classic Awards Ltd that keeps him engaged with most of the private golf courses in Toronto, as well as some of the private and public high schools where he officiated basketball for a number of years.

Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson started out in the 1960’s as a high school middle distance coach, with team from all four high schools where he taught winning City of Etobicoke or OFSAA championships.  He joined the Toronto Striders and then in the early 70’s formed Track West. Track West was a very successful middle distance club, with one highlight coming in 1978 when three of the six junior boys that formed the Canadian Cross Country team finished second as a team at the World Cross Country Championship. Track West’s Rob Earl also earned a silver medal at that same Worlds. received the Special Achievement Award at the Ontario Sport Awards for his contributions to the sport of Track & Field in Ontario Ian served as the meet director for the 1972 Olympic Trials in Scarborough and in 1973 formed the Ontario Meet Directors Council, for which he served as the first chairman.

From 1971 to 1976, he ran a major meet, often with crowds of 3,000 or more at a three- hour invitational. Ian coached and officiated with Bolton Pole Vault. In 2022 which marked his 55th OFSAA in one capacity or another, Anderson said “As pole vault chief for one last time, it is time to pass the hat on to the younger generation.” Anderson has been the Head Track and Field Coach at four Etobicoke High Schools beginning in 1965 – Alderwood, Kipling, Keiller MacKay and Richview Collegiates winning championships at all of them.

In 2013, he received the Special Achievement Award at the Ontario Sport Awards for his contributions to the sport of Track & Field in Ontario and was inducted into the Athletics Ontario Hall of Fame. Ian Anderson has coached many great athletes including the more recent 2024 Summer Olympics bronze medalist pole vaulter Alysha Newman who says “she can’t think of anyone more deserving of this honour and that his legacy will continue to inspire athletes and officials for years to come.”

Bill O’Flaherty

When Clarkson fans think of the modern era of Clarkson Hockey, many can point to the influence of Bill O’Flaherty on the winning culture he helped create.

Bill O’Flaherty began attending Clarkson in 1967, playing under legendary coach Len Ceglarski for two full seasons and graduating in 1971.  O’Flaherty transitioned immediately to coaching after graduation, taking a position at Clarkson first under Ceglarski, then Hall of Fame Coach,  Jerry York.  O’Flaherty remained as an assistant until York himself left to take over at Bowling Green and O’Flaherty was chosen as his successor.

O’Flaherty had immediate and consistent success with the Golden Knights, winning 21 games in his first season (1979–80) and continuing that trend for his entire time behind the bench at Walker Arena. In his second and third seasons, O’Flaherty got Clarkson 26-wins, which provided the team with their only 2 back-to-back ECAC Hockey regular season titles in school history and got them to their first NCAA tournament in over a decade.

In six seasons behind the bench, O’Flaherty achieved five 20-win seasons,  with a record of 134-59-12 (.683 winning percentage),  3 NCAA tournament berths, and 2 conference regular season titles. Billy O was selected as Spencer Penrose Award recipient as National Coach of the Year in 1981. His .683 winning percentage lands him 8th best all-time among NCAA Div. I coaches.

He coached several NHL’ers, when the path to the NHL was still difficult for college players, including Clarkson’s first Stanley Cup Champion, Colin Paterson.  Nine Golden Knights would achieve All-American status under Coach O’Flaherty.  In the ECAC, which included BU, BC, Northeastern, UNH among others at the time, O’Flaherty would coach two players named ECAC Player of the Year (Ed Small 1981 & Steve Cruickshank 1982), Rookie of the Year Don Sylvestri, and Dave Fretz, who was named to the ECAC Top 50 players of all time.  O’Flaherty was named ECAC Coach of the Year in 1981,

After his coaching career, O’Flaherty became Clarkson Athletic Director and held the post for more than a decade, where he would oversee the continued success of the Hockey program and the growth of sports offerings during his time.

Bill moved to the NHL to serve as Director of Player Personnel for the LA Kings. With Dave Taylor as the GM of LA Kings, they helped build the framework for what would become 2 Stanley Cup teams in the 2000’s.

O’Flaherty’s eye for the details of the game would lead him to stay in the game at the highest level as a scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Director of Pro Scouting for Florida Panthers until 2010.

Bill is the son of former NHLer John “Peanuts” O’Flaherty who spent most of his career in the minor leagues for the Pittsburgh Hornets. Bill’s brother Gerry O’Flaherty was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1970 and spent parts of 8 seasons in the NHL as a player, eventually winning 3 Stanley Cups as a scout.

Helen and Glenn Jones

Helen Jones was the Team Manager of The West Toronto Barracudas, a Special Olympics Swim Team, from 1996 until 2022, 26 years. Glenn came on board in 2009 and played a strong role as part of the leadership of the team.

Being around individuals with an intellectual disability was not new to them. Helen grew up with a sister with Down Syndrome and they have very close friends whose daughter has Down Syndrome. When their son was attending the University of Toronto, he and a friend who had a brother with Down Syndrome decided to start a Special Olympics swim team. They were both on the University of Toronto Swim Team, and they recruited a number of their fellow team mates to volunteer as coaches. That’s how the Barracudas Swim Team was born back in 1996. Helen knew from it’s start that she wanted to play a role in the team’s development.

The Barracudas are still going strong That is thanks to all the committed volunteer coaches and dedicated swimmers and their families over so
many years. Helen and Glenn feel very honoured to be recognized for their work with Special Olympics.

John Spence

John Spence, born and raised in Mimico, Ontario, was a gifted athlete and influential figure in the world of sports and education. His athletic talents were evident from a young age, with his baseball teams winning provincial championships in several age categories. At Mimico High School, he excelled in basketball, football, and track and field, earning the title of Athlete of the Year in 1956, following in his father’s footsteps who had won the same honor 31 years earlier. He later played football for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.

After graduating from U of T, Spence embarked on a remarkable 35-year teaching career, with 30 years spent at Kipling Collegiate Institute. Known affectionately as “Mr. Kipling,” he became a legendary figure in Etobicoke’s sports community. He played a pivotal role in building winning teams and establishing strong sports programs at Kipling and in the Etobicoke and Toronto High School Sports associations.

Spence was a founding member of the Etobicoke Athletic Association and served as its President in 1970. He also held a leadership role in the Toronto District Athletic Association, serving as President in 1980. In 1994, his significant contributions to high school sports were recognized by the Ontario OFSAA governing body.

Beyond his coaching and administrative achievements, Spence was revered as a role model and mentor who positively impacted thousands of students and student-athletes. Former students, including Ian Troop, credited Spence for shaping their character, instilling discipline, hard work, and a competitive spirit that served them well in both sports and business.

Spence’s coaching philosophy emphasized preparation, discipline, and sportsmanship. His teams were known for their composure, dignity, and competitive edge, reflecting the values and teachings of their coach. Through his dedication and passion for sports and education, John Spence left a lasting legacy in the Etobicoke community and beyond.

Kemp Scott

While not as well known outside Etobicoke as some other inductees, Kemp Scott’s thirty years of work with the Humber Valley Hockey Association made him one of the most recognizable sports personalities within the community.

Hundreds of kids have benefitted from his volunteer work in the rinks of our community. His hockey clinic for the less advanced players in the area has served the community for 25 years.

Kemp has impacted hundreds of kids over the years with his coaching abilities. He provides outstanding leadership to the children and he serves and provides much needed outlets to the youth of today.

Selected to the Federal Government’s ’88 Awards Program in 1988 to help celebrate the Calgary Olympics, he was obviously a very worthy choice for the Certificate of Merit Award for his outstanding community work.

Mr Scott has also been recognized in the Etobicoke Hall of Fame by the City of Etobicoke in 1991.

Judy Ilcio

The idea of women’s ball hockey league started as a Ryerson business plan project for Etobicoke resident Judy Ilcio. The TWBHA was founded in 1983.

It took a lot of time and dedication and countless hours of volunteer work to start the league, recruit players and develop it to offer recreational and competitive opportunities at the local, provincial, national and international level.

The league was founded in 1983 as a local organization with 4 teams and today it boasts 14 teams, 2 divisions (east/west) and the sport offers local, provincial, national and international opportunities for participants. Judy was instrumental in forging relationships with governing bodies OBHA and CBHA to create ladies divisions under their umbrella and expand opportunities for women to compete at an international level.

Thousands of women have benefitted by being introduced to the sport – participating at a recreational and/or competitive level. Ladies have been able to enjoy sport in a safe and fun environment, forging lifelong relationships.

Ilcio not only started the league but has been a participant as well – every year and is still actively playing today and continues to recruit new players to the league.

2019 –Ilcio started the Etobicoke Dolphins women’s hockey league – Masters Division. She has participate in playing recreational hockey for years and after discussions with a number of players, she felt there was a need and want for a Masters division – so she created one. She was able to recruit enough players to form four teams in the first year.

Ilcio has accomplished all of these achievements while being an active mother to daughter Alex and son Luke and working full time as a business executive.

Tom Anselmi

Toronto sports fans hope a professional engineer can build winning rosters for the Maple Leafs, Raptors, Marlies and Toronto FC. The task of balancing expectations from shareholders and impatient fans while fielding competitive teams in three world-class leagues requires the deft touch of a detail-oriented big thinker.Enter Tom Anselmi, a veteran sports executive who was recently appointed president and chief operating officer of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. “It feels terrific. I’m excited about our future,” said Anselmi of leading Canada’s most storied and lucrative sports empire. “For a Toronto guy who grew up playing minor hockey in the west end, it’s an honour and a thrill.”The Etobicoke-born executive was named to the top job after an eight-month search to replace retiring president Richard Peddie, who gave Anselmi his blessing. Upon his appointment in September 2012, analysts noted that the MLSE stalwart knows the company inside out and could maintain stability as the billion-dollar organization transferred ownership from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan to Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. But fans hungry for a championship—or just a playoff berth—can be most encouraged by Anselmi’s attitude toward the product on the field. “We all feel the pressure to win. It’s all about team success. That is our priority,” he said.From childhood, the sports-loving left winger, who grew up in the rinks of the Humber Valley and Queensway Faustina hockey leagues, seemed destined to run the Leafs. As a senior student at Sunnylea Public School, Anselmi was chosen to present a class project about how to remodel Maple Leaf Gardens to a bemused Harold Ballard and King Clancy. The Royal York Collegiate graduate saw his first live Leafs game in the Gardens at age 14. “And I still remember it vividly,” he said, describing the sounds and colours of the hallowed arena, where everything seemed bigger and brighter than it did on television. Watching the 1967 Stanley Cup win with his father “feels like yesterday,” he said. Anselmi’s uncompromising commitment to success was fostered as a landscape architecture student at Ryerson, and later while studying to be a civil engineer at the University of Saskatchewan.

After graduation he worked on mining and construction projects in the booming Prairies before a strong interest in sports led him from Saskatoon to Toronto to be a project manager on an unprecedented stadium construction project called the SkyDome. “It was absolutely revolutionary,” Anselmi said of the $500 million project. “It was being talked about around the world.” The SkyDome enthralled the young engineer, and convinced him that a boom in arena projects was imminent.

He helped build Rogers Arena in Vancouver before MLSE brought Anselmi on board in 1996 to manage the design and construction of the Air Canada Centre. He arranged the opening ceremonies at the ACC and the closing ceremonies for historic Maple Leaf Gardens.

A promotion to senior vice president and chief marketing officer in 1999 gave Anselmi experience with broadcast media, ticket sales, branding and communications, before moving to executive VP and COO for business operations in 2004. He was the de facto head of MLSE during the nine-month search to replace Peddie prior to officially being named president.

“Tom’s proven strength in operations has made him a respected leader here at MLSE and across the sports and entertainment industry,” said MLSE chair Larry Tanenbaum. “His passion for our teams and our fans makes Tom the perfect choice as president and COO of this great organization.”

“Tom has never forgotten where he came from or the people he met on the way up,” said Leafs alumni executive and Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame member Mike Pelyk.

The busy executive took a hands-on approach as head of Toronto FC, encouraging a passionate fan base that sold out every game in the team’s first three seasons. High turnover of coaches and players has kept Toronto FC from the playoffs thus far in its short existence, but Anselmi’s desire to win is unmatched, and he plans to get all MLSE teams winning again in short order.

However, he has been in the industry long enough to cultivate a sense of balance and perspective in sports, where the dedication of the fan base is matched only by the unpredictability of the on-field product. “There’s no other industry where your customer has the kind of passion that they do in sports,” Anselmi said. “Leadership is about having a clear vision of what you’re trying to accomplish, and a set of values.”

Anselmi’s engineering background helps him solve problems and think strategically, while as a leader, he focuses on promoting the triple goals of team success, a good relationship with fans, and positive involvement in the community. To these ends, he is a member of various trade and business organizations, vice chair of Get Active Toronto and on the board of KidSport Canada. The avid outdoorsman enjoys boating, cycling and snowmobiling, along with playing pick-up hockey. Away from sports, he plays rhythm guitar at charity gigs with the MLSE staff band, Play to Win.

Perhaps his most significant philanthropic contributions are the five goodwill trips Anselmi made to Afghanistan to visit Canadian troops, a commitment to the armed forces that earned him the Chief of Defence Staff Commendation, the highest military honour awarded to civilians. Inspired by the memories of his late father, Etobicoke pharmacist William Thomas Anselmi, and grandfather Tommaso—who served in the Canadian Navy and Army, respectively—Anselmi brought several dozen former NHL players to play pick-up hockey with the troops. It was “a life-changing experience” for each member of “Team Canada,” Anselmi said. “We all went over there thinking our job was to inspire the troops, but we found that they were the ones inspiring us. We were blown away by these great Canadians and the job they’re doing over there.”

Anselmi feels honoured to join friends and mentors like Mike Pelyk and the late George Gross in the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame, even though he expects some good-natured ribbing from his beer league hockey mates as they point out his photo in the ESHOF display at the MasterCard Centre.

The new MLSE sheriff understands that fans don’t care about the corporate bottom line. They want to see championships—and so does he. “I think Toronto is a great sports town. Our fans are some of the greatest in the world. We’ve been through a drought for five years, and it’s going to end soon. It’s been difficult, but our fans have stuck with us,” Anselmi said, promising that on-field success will reward their patience.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Bob Harris and Brian Hoskins

The president and vice chair of Lakeshore Lions arena, respectively, Harris and Hoskins played a huge part in bringing the $33.65 million, 276,000 sq.-ft. MasterCard Centre of Hockey Excellence to south Etobicoke.

The four-pad arena at Kipling and Lake Shore Blvd. W., which replaced the aging (circa 1951) single-pad Lakeshore Lions Arena, opened in September of last year.

It now houses the Toronto Maple Leafs’ practice facility, as well as the Hockey Hall of Fame’s archives and research facilities, Hockey Canada’s regional offices, the Etobicoke Dolphins (the country’s second largest women’s hockey organization) and the Faustina Sports Club.

Tom McBroom

Tom McBroom was raised in the Credit Valley area of Mississauga. He has loved golf since he was a youngster, and even then wanted to design his own golf courses. When he set out to achieve his dream, it was a path almost untrodden in Canada.

He studied at the University of Guelph, graduating with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and establishing his own firm – a one-man operation to start – in the 1980’s.

Since then, he has designed and built some of the most strikingly beautiful and challenging golf courses anywhere. Rather than being imposed on the terrain, his golf courses grow out of the landscape on which they are built, and are noted for their craftsmanship and harmonious integration with the landscape they occupy.

Underlying his creative vision are his knowledge and appreciation of the history and the traditions of the game. He takes full advantage of modern technology, but always stays faithful to the spirit of early golf courses.

As a result, he creates conditions that demand and evoke the highest skills of the players, making him one of Canada’s great contributors to the game.

His courses have won numerous awards. A Tom McBroom course has five times been named the Best New Canadian Course by Golf Digest, from the Links at Crowbush Cove in 1994 to The Ridge at Manitou in 2006. Twelve of his designs are listed in the Top 100 Golf Courses in Canada.

In addition to his work here, he has designed and built courses in the U.S., the West Indies, and a set of courses of striking beauty in Finland.

Tom McBroom is a longtime member of the St. George’s Golf and Country Club. He and his wife Wendy live in the South Kingsway in Etobicoke, and have two children, Devon and Conor.