Softball Canada Announces 2005 Hall of Fame Inductees

[Al Doran]

Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 07:59:45 -0500
From: "Mat Gentès" <mgentes(at)softball.ca>
Subject: Softball Canada Announces 2005 Hall of Fame Inductees



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Softball Canada Announces 2005 Hall of Fame Inductees
November 4th, 2005

(Ottawa) ­ Softball Canada announced today the 2005 class of inductees into 
Softball
Canada’s Hall of Fame.  Serge Bourque (Beauce, QC), Joyce Collict (Toronto, 
ON),
Don “Pete” McIlwraith (Guelph, ON), Rose Hodgson (Sarnia, ON), Lucie 
Carmichael (Québec,
QC) and the 2000, 2002, 2003 Owen Sound Selects (Owen Sound, ON) will all 
be inducted in
a ceremony taking place in Montréal on Saturday November 12th, coinciding 
with Softball
Canada’s 2005 Annual Congress.

Serge “Pat” Bourque will be inducted into the Athletes category.  Serge 
played in 10
Canadian Championships, three of which he was named to the tournaments 
all-star team.
He was a member of Canada’s gold medal team at the 1987 Pan Am Games, and 
in 1988 he was
on the team that captured bronze at the World Championships.  Serge was 
inducted into
Softball Québec’s Hall of Fame in 1990.

Joy Collict enjoyed a storied career.  In 1956 she was named to the All 
Star team at the
World Tournament in Clearwater, Florida. Not only was she the first 
Canadian catcher to
be named to a World All Star team, she beat out her idol for the spot, 
legendary Dot
Wilkinson. She would later receive recognition from then Toronto mayor 
Nathan Philips
for her outstanding accomplishment. In all Joy played in eight World 
Championships.  Joy
Collict will be inducted into the Athletes category.

Don “Pete” McIlwraith will be inducted into the Builders category of the 
Softball Canada
Hall of Fame.  Pete’s accomplishments in the Canadian softball community 
are abundant.
In 1981 he received the PWSA’s Outstanding Service Award; he was Volunteer 
of the Year
as named by the Kitchener Minor Girls Fastball Association in 1995. In 1997 
he was named
to the Guelph Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 1987 Midget Girls 
National
Championship team. Pete was a founding member of the Guelph Boys Minor 
Softball
Association (1964); in 1969 he was a founding member and President of the 
Guelph Girls
Minor Softball Association.

Rose Hodgson has steadily moved up the ranks from volunteering at the 
grassroots up
through to the National Level.  Locally, Rose served on the Sarnia Minor 
Athletic
Association for Girls Softball for over 15 years. She then moved through 
the ranks of
the Provincial Women’s Softball Association serving as Minor Coordinator 
all the way up
to President. Rose then moved onto to serve on Softball Ontario’s Board 
eventually
becoming Chairman from 1993-1995. Rose made the next jump to the National 
Level winning
the election to become a Director on Softball Canada’s Board in 1998, where 
she has
served on various committees including leading the selection of the very 
successful
Learn to Play Program as Canada’s introductory program for children to the 
sport of
softball.  Rose will be inducted in the Builders category.

The 2000, 2002, 2003 Owen Sound Selects teams will be joining the Softball 
Canada Hall
of Fame in the Teams category.  The 2000 Owen Sound Selects won the Senior 
Men’s
Canadian Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with a perfect 10-0 
record.  The 2002
Selects were once again crowned Senior Men’s Canadian champions in Winnipeg 
sporting an
8-2 record.  The Selects successfully defended their championship in 2003 
defeating the
Waterloo Twins in the championship game.

Lucie Carmichael will be inducted into the Officials category.  Lucie 
involved herself
as a volunteer in her local area and later on, on the Provincial 
Officiating Development
Committee until she became the Provincial Umpire-in-Chief in 1997. She 
would later
become a member of Softball Canada’s ODC from 1998 to 2000.  She attended 
the Blue
Convention as a guest speaker in 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003. She also conducted
presentations at the National level on the status of women in 
officiating.  Her ultimate
goal was reached in 1996 with her nomination as an umpire to the Olympic 
Games in
Atlanta, Georgia. Lucie gained international recognition, earning the 
honour to be
chosen as home plate umpire for the gold medal game.

The Claude Deschamps Memorial Fund and Ethel Boyce Achievement Award 
recipients, as well
as the Coach of the Year, and the Umpire of the year will all be recognized 
as part of
the Hall of Fame Banquet.

Claude Deschamps Memorial Fund
Geneviève Houle
Mathieu Roy

Ethel Boyce Achievement Award
Cassandra Morais
Chris Teichreb

Softball Canada Coach of the Year
Marie-Claude Lapointe

Softball Canada Umpire of the Year
Bob Constantin

The Claude Deschamps Memorial Fund was established in 1984 in honour of Mr. 
Deschamps,
Executive Director of Softball Canada.  Based on the rotation format of the 
Annual
General Meeting, the Fund is available annually to a male and female 
recipient in the
hosting region.  A $1,000 bursary is given to each recipient to assist with 
their
education.  Ruth A. Laing created the Ethel Boyce Achievement Award in 
honour of her
sister Ethel Phoebe Boyce.  Miss Boyce was an avid softball player who had a
professional and personal interest in helping people.  A $1,000 bursary is 
given to a
male and female recipient annually.



For more information:
Kathy Stewart
Softball Canada
(613) 523-3386 ext. 3107
kstewart(at)softball.ca

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