The architect of the Peterborough Century 21 Lakers historic Mann Cup four-peat and a member of hockey’s famed Plager brothers spotlight the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame’s 2025 induction class.
Paul Day and Invoice Plager shall be joined by water skier David Lean, paralympic athlete Frank Mazza, athletic therapist Andrea (Cranley) Prieur and runner Darl Sutherland. The 4 athletes and two builders shall be enshrined throughout a ceremony June 14 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre at 7 p.m.
Paul Day
Paul Day is being inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame within the builder class for lacrosse throughout a ceremony on June 14, 2025 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre. Right here, Day, former basic supervisor of the Peterborough Century 21 Lakers, poses for a photograph in 2017.
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Day was a nice athlete in his day, however he’s being inducted as a builder for his work in constructing championship groups on the Main Sequence Lacrosse, Nationwide Lacrosse League and worldwide ranges.
As a member of the Peterborough Maulers, he gained Minto Cup championships in 1986 and once more as captain in 1989. Day was acknowledged because the Ontario Lacrosse Jr. A Finest Defenceman in 1988 and 1989. In 178 junior video games, he tallied 410 factors (156 objectives, 254 assists). He went on to play senior lacrosse with Vancouver, Brooklin and Niagara Falls. He gained a MILL/NLL championship with the Buffalo Bandits in 1992 earlier than turning his abilities to teaching and crew constructing.
Throughout his 18 years with the Rochester Knighthawks, he coached them to 4 NLL titles. He was named NLL Coach of the Yr in 2004 and was inducted into the Rochester Knighthawks Corridor of Fame in 2009. Shifting to the Philadelphia Wings of the NLL, he took on the position as head coach and basic supervisor. In 2020, he was named Common Supervisor of the Yr and awarded the Les Bartley Award, which acknowledges the NLL’s Head Coach of the Yr.
In the summertime, Day coached the St. Catharine’s juniors from 1993-1996, the St. Regis Indians in 2009 and was an assistant coach with the MSL Brampton Excelsiors in 2010. He was the assistant GM of the 2007 World Championship Workforce Canada Indoor Lacrosse crew and was assistant coach in 2011 and 2015.
Day served as basic supervisor of the Century 21 Lakers from 2015 to 2023, profitable a record-tying 4 consecutive Mann Cup titles from 2017 to 2022, with two seasons cancelled by COVID-19.
Day was inducted into the Kenner Collegiate Wall of Fame in 1985 for lacrosse and soccer, the Ontario Lacrosse Corridor of Fame in 2017 and Canadian Lacrosse Corridor of Fame in 2020.
Invoice Plager
Invoice Plager is being inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame within the athlete class for hockey throughout a ceremony on June 14, 2025 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre. Right here, Plager is seen operating an IceKats observe in 2013 on the Kinsmen enviornment.
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Plager is being inducted as an athlete in hockey. He and brothers Barclay and Bob performed 4 seasons along with the St. Louis Blues.
Following his time with the Peterborough TPT Petes between 1962 and 1966, Invoice turned professional, with an 11-year profession which included 249 NHL video games with the Blues, Minnesota North Stars and Atlanta Flames. He was a member of the 1968-69 Blues who gained the Western Division title and reached the Stanley Cup last.
Plager was named “Best Defenceman” and “Player of the Year” for the New Haven Nighthawks in 73-74 and chosen to the AHL Second All-Star crew in 1975. The Kirkland Lake native was inducted into Hockey Heritage North Corridor of Fame in 2012 and the Missouri Sport Corridor in 2014.
After hockey, Plager referred to as Peterborough house, working at Quaker Oats whereas volunteering his time to educate minor and junior hockey.
David Lean
David Lean is being inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame within the athlete class for waterskiing throughout a ceremony on June 14, 2025 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre.
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Lean, being inducted as an athlete in water snowboarding, grew up in Apsley and began water snowboarding on the age of 15 on Jack’s Lake.
In 1954, he completed first in a Novice Water Ski occasion on the CNE. At 19, he represented Canada on the 1957 World Championships in Cyprus Gardens, Florida. The crew completed seventh and Lean twenty second total, 18th in methods, nineteenth in leaping and thirty first in slalom.
He earned his first main championship win on the 1958 Ontario Water Ski Championships in Bobcaygeon, inserting first total and in methods and completed second within the bounce. He was first in leaping on the 1959 Bay State Open Championship. He competed on the World Championships in 1959 Milan, Italy, and 1961 in Lengthy Seaside, California the place the crew completed eighth. He gained the Males’s General on the North American Water Ski Championship in 1966 and was a three-time Canadian Champion 1959, 1961 and 1962. Lean was Canadian Water Ski Champion — closed and open occasions; 1957 Japanese Canada Water Ski Tips Champion and 1961 General and Tips Champion and took third in males’s bounce, 1962 total and methods champion; 1960 Ontario Water Ski Champion — closed and open.
He gained the 1964 Ontario Open in methods, ending third in slalom. He gained the 1965 Ontario Open and completed with third in methods and bounce within the 1965 Canadian Championship. Within the 1966 Canadian Invitational, he was total and methods champion and completed second total and third in leaping on the Ontario Open.
He was the primary Canadian to finish the “wake toe hold” trick in competitors at Ste. Agathe, Que.
One of many most interesting present skiers in North America, Lean was nonetheless snowboarding into his 80s. Lean was inducted into the Canadian Water-skiing/Wakeboard Corridor of Fame in 2024.
Frank Mazza
Frank Mazza is being inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame within the athlete, Paralympic class throughout a ceremony on June 14, 2025 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre.
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Mazza, who had cerebral palsy (CP), is being inducted as a Paralympic athlete.
He began wheelchair racing within the early Eighties utilizing solely his left arm to propel his wheelchair whereas competing towards two-arm wheelers. He competed within the Japanese Ontario and Ontario CP video games, profitable many occasions.
Workforce Canada designed a two-year coaching program for him, and he was capable of purchase a racing wheelchair. His objective was to compete on the 1984 Olympics for the bodily disabled, which have been referred to as the “International Games for the Disabled” equal to as we speak’s Paralympics. Mazza surpassed his objective.
On the 1984 Ontario Provincial Video games, he gained the 60-metre dash, the 100-metre dash and the 400-metre dash. That very same 12 months, he was a gold medal winner within the 4 X 100 metre relay on the Worldwide Video games for the Disabled in Lengthy Island, New York.
In 1986, Mazza took half within the Worldwide Cerebral Palsy Video games in Gits, Belgium, the place he gained gold within the 4 X 100 metre relay, silver within the 400-metre dash and bronze within the 100-metre dash. He held nationwide and provincial information in lots of occasions for a number of years.
Mazza’s racing profession was lower brief by a most cancers prognosis in 1986. Though he beat the illness, he was unable to compete once more.
He was inducted into the Ontario Cerebral Palsy Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 1990, the Cobourg & District Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2019 and was the recipient of the Rotary Membership of Toronto Particular Achievement Award for Worldwide Competitors for Disabled in 1985 and acquired certificates of accomplishment from the Province of Ontario and Metropolis of Peterborough.
Andrea (Cranley) Prieur
Andrea Prieur is being inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame within the builder class for athletic therapist throughout a ceremony on June 14, 2025 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre.
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Prieur performed many sports activities, however a knee damage turned her focus from competing to a profession in sport remedy, the place she’s earned her induction as a builder.
She accomplished a bachelor of human kinetics with honours (bilingual) on the College of Ottawa, the game remedy certificates program at York College, grew to become an authorized athletic coach by the Nationwide Athletic Trainers Affiliation, is an authorized athletic therapist and in 2008 she licensed as a power and conditioning coach by the Nationwide Energy & Conditioning Affiliation.
She’s earned assignments with the Canadian medical crew for the 2012, 2016, 2021 Olympics, World College, Pan American and Commonwealth video games, in addition to the Canada Video games and Ontario Summer time Video games.
She has even served as head therapist for the Radio Metropolis Rockettes and as private therapist for actor George Hamilton.
She’s travelled the world and been acknowledged by her skilled associations and the athletes and sport organizations she’s labored with. She presently serves because the sports activities damage clinic supervisor at York College and is a primary responder teacher.
Darl Sutherland
Darl Sutherland is being inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports activities Corridor of Fame within the athlete class for operating throughout a ceremony on June 14, 2025 on the Peterborough Memorial Centre. Right here, Sutherland competes within the Kms for Care half marathon race in Ennismore in 2012.
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Sutherland, being inducted as an athlete in operating, first discovered success at Fleming School with the encouragement of the late Dave McConkey and the Peterborough operating group.
Between 2001 and 2005, he gained one particular person and two crew Ontario School Athletic Affiliation cross-country gold medals, together with two particular person and two crew silver medals.
With Fleming School, he was a person bronze medal winner on the CCAA Championships in 2002 and 2004, on prime of a silver crew medal in 2004.
He captained the OCAA crew representing Ontario at CCAA Championships in 2004 and 2005, profitable silver and bronze medals. He was a key issue within the Fleming Knights crew success, profitable two gold and two silver medals in 4 years and topped total OCAA Champions in 2001-02. He was a two-time All-CCAA crew member.
Sutherland was inducted into the OCAA Corridor of Fame in 2013 and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Affiliation Corridor of Fame in 2013.
Sutherland was nationally ranked over quite a lot of years within the prime 20 within the 5k, 10k, half-marathon, full marathon and ultra-marathon. He competed within the Boston, Philadelphia and New York marathons and gained the 2006 Mississauga, 2007 Prince Edward County, 2009 Comrades Extremely, South Africa and 2012 Amherstburg marathons. He’s gained over 130 races.
His love of operating translated right into a 20-year teaching profession. He’s a Degree 3 Licensed Endurance Coach with certification in all points of coaching excessive efficiency athletes. He has coached a number of particular person athletes and groups to nationwide, provincial and OFSAA championships.
He has coached the Fleming cross-country and observe groups since 2011, in addition to highschool observe and discipline and Particular Olympics.
