Nordic skiing

An outstanding all-around athlete, Rob Roy excelled in both hockey and baseball in 1985. He spent the 1984-85 hockey season with the Barrie Colts of the Central Ontario Jr. “B” league. His season appeared headed for disaster when Roy sustained stretched knee ligaments while playing for the Ontario Jr.”A” Richmond Hill Dynes in December. He was leading the league in scoring at the time with 20 goals and 40 assists in 22 games. High-scoring line mate Bruce Stanley had counted 30 goals before Roy’s injury, but managed only 13 in his final 18 games without Roy as his centre man. Despite missing these 18 games, Roy still finished 8th in the league scoring race. The Colts won their first league championship in nine years, and Roy returned for the playoffs. Barrie’s top playoff scorer, he helped lead Barrie past Georgetown, Mimico and Streetsville to the Central Ontario Championship. In the summer of 1985 Rob Roy played shortstop for the Barrie Marrow-Wismer Marauders of the Metro Junior Baseball League. A fine fielder who also hit for both average and power, Roy was a member of the Ontario Junior Selects Baseball Team which won the Gold Medal at the 1985 Canada Games in Moncton, New Brunswick. Roy played the 1985-86 hockey campaign with the Georgian College Grizzlies of the Ontario College Athletic Association’s Tier I league. He led the Grizzlies in scoring with 16 goals and 26 assists, as Georgian finished in third place. He was a dominant player as Georgian eliminated defending champion Seneca Braves in two straight playoff games, before being themselves eliminated by Humber Hawks. Rob Roy was selected to the OCAA Tier I First All-Star Team, and to the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association All-Star Team.

In 1986, Robert James Crossan was a member of both the Ontario Alpine Ski Team and the Canadian National Development Group. He was the 1986 Sealtest Cup Ontario Alpine Overall Champion, winning three of five races and finishing second in another. He finished second overall in the Canadian Alpine Ski Series “Best Ever Cup,” winning a slalom event, and placing second in a giant slalom, two downhill and two super giant slaloms. In February, he won both the Junior and Senior Combined Titles at the Canadian Alpine Championships in Rossland, B.C., finishing 4th in slalom, 16th in downhill and 4th in giant slalom, defeating some national team members. In March, Crossan skied in the American Junior Invitational National Championships in Colorado, for all North American skiers 18 and under, finishing 6th in downhill, 11th in. super giant slalom and 7th in giant slalom. He fared well in eight races in the North American Spring Series in Utah and Idaho, and finished the season with a 2nd in giant slalom and 7th in slalom at F.I.S. races in Quebec. In December, he competed in the Eastern Nor-Am Series for Canadian, American and European skiers, as well as the Western Nor-Ams at Mt. Allan. In the latter series, his three top-twenty finishes, including a 6th in super giant slalom, earned him a spot competing with the national team in Europe. He has been recognized with an Achievement Award Certificate under the Ontario Government Sports Award Program for his 1986 accomplishments. A member of the Huronia Cycling Club, Rob won the Junior Division of the 1986 Collingwood Summerfest 30 km race.

In 2023, Rob Crossan was inducted into the Barrie Hall of Fame.

Ed Doerksen a 37 year-old Barrie resident competed at the Masters level for the Barrie Trojans Swim Club. At the Canadian Masters Swimming championships in May, 1987, Doerksen finished 12th in the 50 metres butterfly (36.00 seconds), 21st in the 50 freestyle (32.54) and 15th in the 100 breaststroke (1:34.26). Later that same month at the Burlington Masters Swim Invitational, Doerksen won the 200 individual medley, and placed third in the 100 butterfly. All of the above is made more remarkable by the fact that Ed Doerksen also competed as a disabled athlete in the A4 class (for athletes with one leg amputated below the knee). At the Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled in July, Ed won two gold medals (in the 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 400 freestyle, setting a Games record of 5:48 in the latter event) and two silvers (in the 200 individual medley and 100 freestyle). That performance earned him a spot on the Canadian National Team for the International Games for the Disabled, which took place in August in Nashville, Tennessee. Doerksen’s 1987 season culminated with a sensational performance at the Canadian Foresters Games for the Physically Disabled in late August. He started with a silver medal in the 100 metres breaststroke, and then followed that with a pair of gold medal performances. He established a new Canadian record in the 400 freestyle (6:4.31) for athletes of his class, then shattered the Canadian and World records for the 200 freestyle.

At 43 years old, Terry Martin was one of Canada’s leading ultra marathoners. An ultra marathon is an endurance race, measured in either time or distance, which extends beyond the limits of conventional distance races, including marathons. Terry’s 1988 season began March 5th with a victory in the LaCloche classic, a 50-kilometre race from Espanola to Little Current, Ontario. His time was 3:31:47. On April 2nd he competed in the 100-mile New York Ultra marathon in Queen’s, New York. “Splits” of both time and distance are kept in ultra marathons for the purpose of establishing records at these intermediate times and distances. Terry set five new Canadian Open and Canadian Masters (age 40-44) records at the New York race: 6 hours (50 miles, 1736 yards), 12 hours (92 miles, 477 yards), 60 kilometres (4:11:52), 150 kilometres (12:13:51), and 100 miles (13:18:25). He also established a new Canadian Masters standard for 100 kilometres (7:30:18). On June 4th/5th, Terry won the Sri Chinmoy International 24 Hour Race in Ottawa, Ontario, covering a distance of 201.075 kilometres (124 miles, 1658 yards) despite nursing a painful hip problem. He finished 2nd on September 5th in the Golden Horseshoe Fifty Miler, a 50-mile race from Hamilton to Niagara Falls. His time was 5:52:39. In 1988, Terry Martin was a public school teacher in Barrie.

Jason Ing was a competitive swimmer with the Barrie Trojan Swim Club. Ing competed in both the Ontario Long Course and Short Course Championships in 1989. He won two medals at the Long Course Championships – a gold in the 200 metre Breaststroke, and a silver in the 100 metre Breaststroke. He dominated the 13-14 year-old age group in Ontario in 1989,- and was ranked nationally in a number of events. Ing was ranked 6th in Canada in both the 100 and 200 metre Breaststroke (his best events) , and 9th in each of the 100 metre Backstroke and 200 metre Individual Medley. He also had a top-twenty ranking in the 200 metre Backstroke. In the Ontario rankings, Ing was 1st in the 200 metre Breaststroke, 3rd in each of the 100 metre Breaststroke and 200 metre Individual Medley, and 4th in the 100 metre Backstroke. Jason Ing was also the 1989 winner of the Kempenfest Across-the-Bay-Swim, a race across Kempenfelt Bay without age handicapping. Ing was also a talented distance runner, and in 1989 he won the Georgian Bay Midget Boys’ high school championship. He qualified for the Ontario Championships, although a leg injury hurt his results there.

During the summer of 1989 Ing competed in the “Kids of Steel” Triathlon Series. He won his age group at three different events, and finished 4th overall for the summer series. In 1989 Jason Ing was 15 years old, and a grade nine student at Eastview Secondary School.

Michelle Maria Maizis was an internationally-ranked competitor in the sport of Karate whose 1990 achievements are nearly too numerous to list here. In 17 tournaments between April and November, she won 28 championships in Kumite (fighting), Kata (forms), Weapons, Weapons Kata and Open-Hand Kata. She also had 12 second-place finishes, 7 thirds, 2 fourths, and 4 fifths. Several of these tournaments were extremely prestigious. Maizis swept Kata, Kumite and Weapons at the Karatemania Martial Arts Championships at Conestoga College in April. She won Blue/Brown Kumite at the Canadian Invitational Martial Arts Tournament held in June at Western University, London. Maizis came up with a big performance at the Cabbagetown Open in Toronto, also in June, capturing championships in each of Open Hand Kata, Kumite, Under Black Belt Weapons and Kata. She closed out June with a tremendous effort at the Battle of Chicago Open, winning Open Hand Kata, Kumite and Under Black Belt Weapons. She won three events at the Washington, D.C. Classic and the Buffalo Can-Am Classic, both in August. When the National Black Belt League, North Central Region rankings were released, Maizis was 1st in Ladies’ Kata, 1st in Ladies’ Kumite, and 3rd in Ladies’ Weapons, making her the Ladies’ Adult Points Leader. Maizis was really just beginning at this point, winning titles at six more events between September and November, including the Dixieland Nationals in South Carolina. Her competitive season culminated with the Women’s Fighting Championship at the National Black Belt League World Championships in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on November 8th, where she also finished 2nd in Forms and Weapons.

When the new rankings were released, Michelle Maizis was rated 1st in Fighting Forms by N.A.S.K.A., and 1st in each of Forms, Weapons and Fighting in the Can-Am Ladies’ Adult Points rankings. A student at Kwan’s School of Kempo Karate in Barrie, she received her Black Belt, First Degree, on November 1, 1990.

Also an excellent volleyball player, Maizis plays on the Ontario Provincial Junior Team.

At the time of her award, Michelle was 19 years of age and a grade 13 student at Innisdale Secondary School.