Year Inducted: 2025
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Yolande Jones-Grande:
Yolande Jones-Grande spent 10 formative years in Oshawa, during which time she was a standout track and field athlete on the local, national and international scene.Yolande set three LOSSA records during her high school years from 1982 to 1986 — in the midget girls 80-metre hurdles, the junior girls 80-metre sprint hurdles and the junior girls 200-metre dash. She still holds COSSA regional records in the senior girls 100-metre sprint hurdles and the senior girls 200-metre run. Yolande was also an eight-time medallist at the OFSAA provincial track and field championships, winning gold twice in the senior girls 100-metre sprint hurdles.Yolande represented Canada at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland in the women’s 100-metre sprint hurdles. She was a silver medallist in the sprint hurdles at the 1984 Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships in Nassau, Bahamas, and a two-time bronze medallist in the same event at the Canadian senior championships. She has represented Canada five times at the junior and senior levels.Now living in Quebec, Yolande has coached several elite athletes with the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club, including one who ran the 100 metres and represented Canada at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. In 2023, she was recognized with the prestigious Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award.As one of the top ranked female sprint hurdlers in Canada for a decade from 1984 to 1993, Yolande Jones-Grande is a terrific addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
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