Year Inducted: 2025
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Bill Langley:
Born, raised and still living in Oshawa, Bill Langley was a remarkable athlete who also served the community incredibly well as a local coach, official and administrator.In lacrosse, Bill played for the Oshawa Green Gaels and won three Minto Cup national championships with the junior-A team, from 1967 to 1969. In basketball, Bill won five LOSSA and COSSA championships at Central Collegiate before spending four years with the Queen’s University Golden Gaels and four with the Oshawa Pistons. Bill has won multiple medals wife Eva in tennis and pickleball, including three gold in tennis at the World Masters Games — in Portland, Oregon (2001), Sydney Australia (2009) and Torino, Italy (2013) — and a bronze in pickleball at the Huntsman World Sr. Games in Utah (2024).As a builder, Bill coached high school basketball from 1973 to 2002, winning five LOSSA championships, and served as convenor from 1980 to 1998. He also coached an Oshawa senior women’s basketball team to three Ontario championships. He founded the Durham Basketball Association in 1998 and supervised it until 2016, while coaching numerous boys and girls teams to Ontario titles.Bill also played a crucial role in lacrosse, coaching five LOSSA championship teams and four provincial championship teams. He led the Canadian national under-19 field lacrosse team to a bronze medal at the world championships in Japan and was an assistant coach for a team that won silver in Australia. Bill started the Ontario Minor Field Lacrosse League and coached Oshawa Blue Knights junior teams to three Canadian championships. He also officiated from 1989 to 2015.Bill Langley is a wonderful addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2019
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Bill Prentice:
Bill Prentice grew up in Oshawa and returned to the city following a successful professional hockey career. Bill captained the Oshawa midget hockey team to an Ontario championship in 1967 and then starred with the Oshawa Crushmen, leading them to two Eastern Ontario championships in 1968 and 1969. In 1969, he left the Oshawa Generals to accept a scholarship to Michigan Tech, where he played for four seasons. Bill was signed as a free agent by the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1973 and won back-to-back Avco Cups in 1974 and 1975. With the Aeros, he was teammates with the legendary Gordie Howe and his sons, Mark and Marty Howe. He would end up playing 158 games in the WHA and 359 games of professional hockey over seven seasons. After retiring as a player, Bill coached a high school team in Indianapolis to a state championship game before returning to Oshawa. He later coached Humber College to the national championships in Alberta.
Year Inducted: 1990
Birth Date: March 18, 1931
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Billy Goulding:
Billy "The Kid" Goulding, born in Oshawa on March 18, 1931, started his amateur boxing career in 1946 at 15 years of age, with the Oshawa Amateur Athletic Club.
Billy won 60 of his 65 bouts either by knockouts or by unanimous decisions. As a result, Billy "The Kid" was rated as one of Canada's best amateur welterweights and won the main event of numerous boxing cards across the Province of Ontario. Unfortunately for many of Billy's opponents, they ended in a horizontal position. Opponents had difficulty slipping or ducking Goulding's jolting left hook and explosive right cross.
In his prime, the angelic-faced Goulding displayed excellent co-ordination, power, inexhaustible determination, grit, discipline and ring savvy beyond his years. These credentials, along with his ability to throw pile-driving punches with regularity, earned Billy Goulding the following achievements:
1946-1949 - Ontario Welterweight Championships1947 - Canadian Welterweight Championship - Finalist1948 - Canadian Olympic Trials - Finalist1949 - British Empire Games - Finalist
Year Inducted: 1986
More about Billy Taylor:
A brilliant play-making centre, Billy captained Oshawa's Memorial Cup winning squad in 1938-39. Earlier, the Generals had captured the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) junior title and the Eastern Canadian junior crown. The OHA championship was one of three won by the Generals while Taylor served them as a player. Billy, who scored nine points for the Generals in a Memorial Cup game against Edmonton, led the OHA in scoring in both the 1936-37 and 1938-39 seasons. He turned professional with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League on his 20th birthday. He also played in the NHL for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers - and while playing for Detroit he set an NHL record for assists in a game with seven. Billy, nicknamed the 'Blond Bomber' during his playing days, later worked as a scout for a number of NHL clubs.
Year Inducted: 2026
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Bob Solomon :
Born in Oshawa and a lifelong resident of the city, Bob Solomon was the backbone of the legendary Oshawa Tony’s fastball team, serving as the catcher from 1968 to 1978.Bob guided the team through a dynasty of success. They captured the OASA Senior A championship in three consecutive years from 1968 to 1970, and dominated the Oshawa and District League with championships from 1968 to 1971 inclusive. In 1972, the team expanded its dominance, winning both the Toronto and District and the Ontario/Michigan League championships.The 1974 season was a pinnacle, as the team won both the Ontario and Canadian championships in British Columbia. During that national tournament, Bob set a Canadian record with 63 putouts, a feat that earned him a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.The team’s excellence continued on the global stage. They toured New Zealand and hosted the Canadian championship in 1975, where they were finalists, and competed in the World Series of Fastball in Edmonton in 1976. In 1977, they won all five Ontario Fastball League tournaments. They capped off the era by winning the Ontario Fastball League title in 1978 and finishing third at the World Championships.Off the field, Bob served as president of the Oshawa Slow-Pitch Association, where he spearheaded the development of ball diamonds in south Oshawa. He also coached at Durham College and played for the successful Roy's Enterprise slo-pitch team.
Year Inducted: 2022
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Brent Grieve:
Oshawa native Brent Grieve lived out a childhood dream by playing his junior hockey career with the Oshawa Generals and reaching the National Hockey League.After making his way through the Oshawa minor hockey system, Grieve was drafted 26th overall by the Generals in 1986 and had a remarkable four-year junior career playing in his hometown. As a rookie, he reached the Memorial Cup final held in Oshawa, and came up a game short of winning the big prize, as the Generals fell to the Medicine Hat Tigers in the final. He was not to be denied in his overage season, however, and helped lead the team to the Memorial Cup championship in Hamilton in 1990, scoring twice in a thrilling double overtime win over the Kitchener Rangers. In 226 regular season games with the Generals, he had 108 goals and 119 assists for 227 points.Grieve was selected in the fourth round of the NHL draft by the New York Islanders and ended up playing five seasons in the NHL with the Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, Chicago Blackhawks, and Los Angeles Kings. He flashed his scoring touch and potential during the 1993-94 season, when he scored 13 goals and added five assists in just 24 games with the Edmonton Oilers. Grieve retired following the 1996-97 season due to chronic knee injuries that plagued him throughout his career. Following his retirement he rejoined the Generals in 1997-1998 as an assistant coach under John Goodwin.Grieve has since volunteered as an assistant coach for several boys’ and girls teams in Oshawa, Whitby and Clarington. His post hockey career, Grieve enjoyed continued success in the business of hockey with numerous management positions spanning over 20 years. His work with Cardinal Sports Management, Pointstreak Sports Technologies, Steva Sports Software and Stack Sports has kept him busy and globally recognized in the sport that he loves.
Year Inducted: 2008
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Bruce Langmaid:
Bruce Langmaid, Oshawa native and sled dog racer, has won eight provincial, nine national and twelve international races. Bruce has competed in races as short as the four-file, four-dog, and as long as the 1000-mile, two week Yukon Quest rated "the toughest sled dog race in the world". His specialties are the 250-mile and 60-mile events where he has set many course records through extremes of weather and terrain.
Highlights of Bruce's career have been racing up the Yukon River under the Northern Lights with legendary musher Frank Turner, and racing across the Continental Divide with the most famous musher of all time, Susan Butcher. Love and care of the dogs come first and foremost in sled dog racing. A long distance musher is athlete, coach, trainer, nutritionist, strategist and psychologist. Extraordinary physical and mental stamina is required. Fighting sleep deprivation and exertion, the musher battles the elements with strong self-reliance, support of the dogs and fellow competitors. The camaraderie and sportsmanship are remarkable. The dogs' trail sense, athleticism, perseverance and team mentality, plus the judgment of each team's "star dog" can impact survival under very hazardous conditions.
The high level of accomplishments of Bruce and his dogs, ably supported by family and friends over 25 years, warrant his induction into the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2013
More about Bryan Boyes:
Bryan Boyes has been a fixture with the Oshawa Generals since 1976.Starting as a stick boy, Bryan took over as the team's Head Athletic Trainer and Equipment Manager in 1982, a position he still holds.Over the years, he has been a valued contributor to the tradition of excellence established by the Generals.This has been reinforced by Hockey Canada, which has selected him as equipment manager for Canada's National Junior team for six IIHF World Junior Championships, winning gold in 1996, 2005, 2006 and 2009, silver in 1999 and bronze in 2012.He was also equipment manager for Canada's entry at the 2010 IIHF World Hockey Championship in Germany.In his role with the Generals, Bryan has been a part of four Ontario Hockey League championships - 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1997, and one Memorial Cup in 1990.Canadian Hockey League Commissioner Dave Branch says there is no question Bryan Boyes "has been a contributing force to the success of the Oshawa Generals, Canada's National Junior Team program and our league."
Year Inducted: 2024
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Cameron Nekkers :
Cameron Nekkers was born and raised in Oshawa and has won OFSAA provincial basketball championships as both a player and a coach. A multi-sport athlete who also excelled in baseball and badminton, Cameron was a two-time captain of the basketball team at Oshawa’s O’Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute and led the senior team to the OFSAA gold medal in 1992. He was also a three-time Durham Region all-star from 1990 to 1992, won a silver medal with Ontario at the 1991 Canadian junior men’s basketball championship, and nabbed several tournament MVP awards. After high school, he reached the NCAA Division 1 championship tournament with Baltimore’s Coppin State University in 1993 and the Canadian university championships with the University of Guelph in 1995. While at Guelph, he set a school record for three-pointers in a season with 42 and was second in Canada in three-point shooting percentage at 51.9 per cent. As head coach of senior boys’ basketball at Pine Ridge Secondary School in Pickering since 2002, Cameron has helped create arguably the most successful high school basketball program in the history of Durham Region. He has guided the team to seven LOSSA championships since 2012, and four OFSAA medals, including two gold. For his excellence on and around the basketball court, Cameron Nekkers is a notable addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2024
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Carlo Fornasier:
Community builder Carlo Fornasier, who passed away last year at age 82.Despite his own children not being involved, Carlo was a consistent and devoted sponsor of many sports teams and tournaments in Oshawa through his company, Carlo’s Electric. He supported a remarkable 45 tournaments from 1978 to 2005.Over the length of his involvement, 8,237 players from various age groups benefitted from Carlo’s generosity, and 107 different organizations from 74 different centres were involved. A total of 347 players who took part in the tournaments went on to spend at least some time in the National Hockey League, and countless others played professionally in North America or Europe. In 1988, Carlo received a certificate of merit from the Government of Canada, signed by Ed Broadbent, presented at Oshawa City Hall. In 1993, Carlo was presented with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Honour Award right here in Oshawa, in conjunction with the “Revitalization of Children’s Arena” ceremony. He also had many plaques and pictures mounted over the years from the different teams and associations he sponsored. For his selfless devotion and contribution to youth sports in Oshawa for so many years, Carlo Fornasier is a most welcomed addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
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