Lou Cavalaris Jr.

Lou Cavalaris Jr., dreamed of being a baseball pitcher, and played ball right up until his university days. But after serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Lou returned home to Hamilton, Ohio.
Lou’s father was in the restaurant business for many years, but also owned many horses… and this is what caught Lou’s attention… horse racing. He started his career at the Detroit Racecourse but later moved to Toronto in 1947, where it didn’t take him long to establish himself as a great trainer.

In 1966, he was named North America’s best trainer, by winning 175 races… and was third leading trainer for races won, in 1967 and 1968.

Lou trained some of Canada’s most outstanding horses, including Victorian Era, Ice Water and Carneys Point. One of his proudest moments, was winning the Wood Memorial in 1968 with horse Dancer’s Image.

In 1978, he became the highly respected Racing Secretary for The Ontario Jockey Club, but after 10 years in the role, Lou couldn’t resist the urge to train horses again.
His achievements were recognized when he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1995.
Lou is now retired from racing. He and his wife Helen are long-time residents of Etobicoke.

Kim Lumsdon

Kim Lumsdon was born in 1957, and took up swimming at the age of 9. As a young girl, Kim traveled with her father, famed swimmer and Etobicoke Sports Hall of Famer, the late Cliff Lumsdon.

Kim spent five successful years in the 1970s on the pro-circuit and was ranked in the top three in the world for the Women’s Division. She competed with fellow Canadians Loreen Passfield and Cindy Nichols in the 1977 Lac Saint-Jean 32 km race finishing in 11 hours, 5 minutes.

Kim is particularly proud of her two Lake Ontario crossings – first in 1976 at the age of 19, where she was coached by her father; and for the second time in 2006 at the age of 49.

She says the second crossing was much more challenging, due to the cold temperatures and six-foot waves, but managed to complete the swim in 26 hours and 32 minutes.

Her achievements include placing in the Top 10 for the 1500m Masters in 1994 and 1995, and breaking the 1000 yard freestyle Ontario record in 1997.

Among her awards, the Special Achievement Award by the Province of Ontario in recognition of her contribution to Fitness and Amateur Sport; and 1996 Coach of the Year by the Splash Program.

Kim has three beautiful, grown daughters… Sasha, Jana, and Natasha, all of whom are involved in swimming. She is a long-time resident of Etobicoke, and is currently the Aquatics Manager of the Boulevard Club.

Glenn Goldup

Glenn Goldup was born in 1953 in St. Catharines, to a large and growing family. He was the fifth of eight children, that later moved to Etobicoke in the fall of 1956.

As a boy, he heard many hockey stories from his father, Hank Goldup, who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and NY Rangers during World War II. This undoubtedly sparked Glenn’s desire to play in the NHL.

Glenn started playing hockey as an enthusiastic 7 year old in the Humber Valley minor hockey program. He soon joined the Toronto Marlies as a Pee Wee and later the Toronto Marlboros of the OHA in the late sixties where he refined his game. The more he played, the more he grew to love the sport.

He was drafted 17-th overall and made his NHL debut on November 7, 1973 with the Montreal Canadiens. One of his proudest moments was winning the Calder Cup in 1976, while he played for the Nova Scotia Voyagers, where he led the league in goals and penalty minutes during the playoffs.

In 1976, Glenn was traded to the LA Kings where, for five seasons, he put up respectable offensive numbers. In 1981, Glenn was dispatched to the Kings AHL affiliate in New Haven where he rounded out his on-ice career. He retired from official play in 1983.

Today, Glenn is actively involved in coaching and supporting the many sports his children participate in, including soccer, ringette, swimming and skiing.

Glenn and his wife Wendy are long time residents of Etobicoke.

Carmen Bush

Coach, player, director, and volunteer, the late Carmen Bush had a wide and varied sporting career, but will be remembered most for the enormous impact he had on the lives of countless young athletes – teaching the values of sport, discipline, sportsmanship and teamwork.

Carmen was born in the west end of Toronto in 1912 to Italian immigrant parents. As a boy, he loved sports and organizing them. At the age of 10 he started a league of street teams. By the age of 15, he picked one of those teams and formed the St. Francis Bantams. He was also an outstanding pitcher and even spent a year in Sudbury pitching in the Nickel Belt League.

Carmen became associated with the Columbus Boys Club in the early 1930s… and for more than 40 years was a volunteer, Athletic Director and finally Director of the club. Many sports including boxing, football, hockey and softball teams were managed at the club. He was a coach, official and administrator in many minor sports organizations but his first love was baseball.

Carmen served as secretary-treasurer and registrar of the Toronto Amateur Baseball Association for more than 50 years. He was instrumental in assisting new associations as they formed and grew in the suburbs. He founded the Boys Club League, the old Toronto Minor Baseball Association, the Oldtimers Baseball Association and the Western City Baseball Association.

Carmen was honoured by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985, and named a Life Member of the Ontario Baseball Association in 1996.

Carmen, who passed away on in December of 2001, was a long-time resident of Etobicoke. Ladies and gentlemen, Carmen Bush, inductee into the 2006 Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame.

Eddie Litzenberger

Eddie Litzenberger was born in 1932 in Neudorf, Saskatchewan. He played Junior Hockey with the Regina Pats, and was signed by the Montreal Canadiens in the early 50s.

He debuted with Montreal in 1954, and was selected as the NHL’s rookie of the year. He was soon traded to Chicago, where he was a 30-goal scorer for the Black Hawks three years running, making him one of the consistent top scorers in the league at the time.

While playing with the Black Hawks in 1955, he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy.

In 1961, as Captain of the Hawks, Eddie led the club to a Stanley Cup victory, but was then quickly traded to Detroit, and then onto Toronto. As a Leaf, he played on three consecutive Stanley Cup teams, 1962, 1963 and 1964.

The right-winger, rounded out his NHL career with 178 goals and 238 assists for 416 points in 618 regular season NHL games.

He hung his skates in 1966, but went on to a successful business career in the Stock Market and later, a family owned construction company.

Eddie returned to Chicago in 1996 along with many of the 1961 Stanley Cup team to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their win.

His three children, sons Dean and John, and daughter Kelly, all attended Richview Collegiate. Ed and his wife Gayle have lived in Etobicoke for more than 45 years.

Jack Blasutti

As a boy, Jack Blasutti played soccer in the streets of his home town of Udina in northern Italy with his older brother Bruno. After serving in the army, Jack moved to Canada in 1955. He soon met and married his wife Deanna in 1960, and together they have three children, all of whom are still involved in soccer today.

Jack became involved in soccer by coaching his oldest son in the late sixties. He then joined the West Mall Soccer Club and was named Vice President in 1978, a post he held for more than 10 years.

In 1989, the West Mall and Martingrove clubs joined, giving birth to the Etobicoke Youth Soccer Club. Jack was President of the club from 1989 to 2002, a league that started with just 380 kids… and today has over 3600 enthusiastic boys and girls.

Jack has received many awards including an Award of Excellence from the City of Etobicoke in 1998, and Lifetime Memberships from both the EYSC in 2004 and TSA in 2006.

Jack’s love of soccer includes years of coaching, refereeing, and being a conveyner of the Tyke Division. He is currently the Etobicoke Youth Soccer Club Business Manager.

Jack and his wife Deanna continue to live in Etobicoke. When he is not busy managing the club, you can find Jack cheering on his five grandchildren, all of whom play soccer today.