Chatham-Kent Secondary School’s Noah VanNeck had a successful OFSAA track and field championship in St. Catharines on the weekend—winning the junior boys shot put and discus gold,

Last year, VanNeck won gold medals in the novice boys shot put and discus categories.

The Grade 10 student won twice and set a record at the OFSAA West Region meet in the run up to OFSAA.

Here are how the other Chatham-Kent high school track and field athletes who qualified for OFSAA did in St. Catharines.

Ursuline
Mimo Atoyebi novice girls 100m 5th
Mimo Atoyebi novice girls 200m 7th
Madeline Verbeek junior girls 300m hurdles 4th
Madeline Verbeek junior girls 400m hurdles 7th
Aislyn DeHoey junior girls triple jump 12th
Ursuline’s Miles Carrington novice boys’ 400m 16th
DJ Destang-Phillip senior boys long jump 8th
Willow Sparling in the novice girls discus 17th
Novice boys 4x100m relay team of Emerson Alves, Carrington, Harper McPhail and Ben Bondy 16th

Chatham-Kent

Noah VanNeck junior boys shotput 1st

Noah VanNeck junior boys discus  1st
Lia Hillman junior girls 200m 8th
Felix Ostropolec novice boys’ shot put 21st
Gracie VanderGriendt open girls 2000m steeplechase 15th
Gavin Lumley novice boys 3000m 12th
Jack Saunders novice boys discus 14th
Alexander Crow novice boys javelin 5th
Ian Costello in the senior boys discus 8th

Wallaceburg
Dylan Leach novice boys triple jump 10th

Lambton-Kent
Anthony Hopkins novice boys’ discus 13th

McGregor
Kolton Jones intellectually impaired boys shot put 5th

Chatham Christian
Chris Vyn senior boys’ high jump 15th

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Cameron Arquette

Wheatley’s Cameron Arquette was a key player on the Memorial Cup winning Kitchener Rangers team.

The Rangers beat the Everett Silvertips 6-2 in the final held in Kelowna on May 31, to win the Canadian junior hockey championship.

In four games at the Memorial Cup, Arquette had a goal and two assists.

The Rangers advanced to the Memorial Cup after beating the Barrie Colts in the Ontario Hockey League final series.Arquette had five goals and four assists in 18 games during the OHL playoffs.

This is the 19 year-old’s second full season playing with Kitchener. In 68 games he had 17 goals, 28 assists for 45 points. He was the only player on the team to appear in all regular season and playoff games.

Arquette was drafted by the Kichener Rangers in fourth round of the 2023 OHL draft.

A celebration in Wheatley in being planned for some time this summer.

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The Chatham Maroons junior hockey team has started announcing their team roster for the upcoming season.

Their first order of business was bringing back their captain Dylan Richter.

Richter has played the two past seasons with Chatham after playing in the OHL with the North Bay Battalion.

When healthy he is one of the best players in the Greater Ontario Hockey League. In the spring of 2025 he put the Maroons on his back during the Sutherland Cup. He had 33 points in 21 playoff games.

This past season Richter battled injuries, playing in only 22 regular-season games and six playoff games. Despite playing through the injuries, Richter was still able to average almost a point a game.

The Maroons also announced that they are bringing back Richard Santos as their general manager. Santos coached the Maroons for three years, leading the team to a Sutherland Cup title in 2025. He also held the general manager duties over those three years.

Santos resigned after the Sutherland Cup championship to take on a role as an assistant coach with the OJHL’s Leamington Flyers, as well as coaching in the BioSteel hockey program in Windsor.

Brennan Feasey is back as head coach, after doing both the head coach and general manager duties last season.

Feasey led the Maroons to the best record in the GOHL Western Conference at 37-8-2-3. They lost to the Stratford Warriors in the second round of the playoffs,

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The Dresden Kings announced a number of signings for the upcoming season.

Coming back is Colton Graham, who will be the Kings’ captain next season. Colton will have big skates to fill, as he will be taking over the captain duties from his older brother Cameron Graham who has now graduated from junior hockey.

Along with Colton Graham, the team is bringing back Derek Nevills, Mackenzie Anderson and Maclean Norris.

Keaton Copeland was signed by the Kings. Copeland played for the Chatham-Kent Cyclones U16 team last season. He just turned 16 years-old this week,

The team also signed Damon Tope and Cameron Hutton. They both played for the Sarnia-Lambton Jr. Sting U18 team last year.

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Chatham’s Ethan Jordan will start the CFL season on the Ottawa Redblack’s practice roster.

Jordan had two catches for 37 yards in Ottawa’s last pre-season game on May 29 against Montreal. Ottawa won 27-3.

A CFL rookie, Jordan had a standout career for the Laurier Golden Hawks, winning the 2025 Hec Crighton Trophy, as the most outstanding player in Canadian university football. He was a four-time all-Canadian receiver. Jordan owns the OUA career record with 239 catches and is second in OUA history with 3,458 receiving yards and 30 touchdown catches.

Ottawa chose Jordan in the sixth round of the 2025 CFL draft.

The Ottawa Redblacks will play their first regular-season game against the Edmonton Elks on Saturday, June 6.

Ottawa finished fourth in the East Division standings in 2025 with a 4-14 record, missing the playoffs for the fifth time in the last six seasons. Ryan Dinwiddie was hired as the team’s head coach and general manager after the firing of Bob Dyce.

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Chatham Beach Volleyball has built their own facility near the Chatham courthouse.

Leasing the property from the municipality, he new courts are located at 109 Courthouse Lane.

Their Phase 1 Design has five full size 9×18 courts and one Feature Court that is 8×16 with a 5m free zone. The courts are Olympic standard and has professional equipment.

All courts have proper drainage and a specialized sand blend that prevents pooling.

The beach volleyball club is for all skill levels, offering adult leagues, youth competitive and development programs, an elite athlete program, and tournament availability.

For more information about the facility and leagues and programs, go to chathambeach.ca.

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You could hear the cheers every time she touched the ball.

In front of a large crowd that included at least a couple hundred fans from Chatham-Kent who made the drive to Toronto, Chatham’s Bridget Carleton had 15 points, going 4 for 8 from three-point range, to help her Portland Fire rout the Toronto Tempo 99-80 on Saturday in the first-ever game between the two expansion WNBA teams.

Carleton has been the focus of Portland’s offence so far this season. The Fire are now 3-3 on the season.

Carleton is in her first year with Portland, after being picked first in the WNBA’s expansion draft earlier this year. This is her seventh year in the WNBA after a standout career at Iowa State.

In 2023, Carleton played an exhibition game in Toronto as a member of the Minnesota Lynx.

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Races on opening day – Contributed Photo

Entering its 151st year of horse racing, Dresden Raceway will start its racing season this Sunday (May 24). Races start at 1 p.m.

Billed as Ontario’s Little Saratoga, Dresden Raceway will have 10 race dates this summer, finishing up in August on the Civic holiday Monday.

The upcoming season will have several themed race days, including Derby Hat Day on May 31, Veterans Day (June 7), Little Green Jug Day (June 14), Father’s Day (June 21) and Harness the Hope (July 12) celebrations, and Kids Day (July 19). The season will finish with Black Heritage Day.

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Marguerite Brown

Without stating the obvious, Chatham’s Marguerite Brown had a good season playing catcher for Bellevue University

Check out the honours and statistics:
Named Frontier Conference Newcomer of the Year,
First-team all-Frontier Conference
Named Frontier Conference Player of the Week on Mar. 16
Academic all-Frontier Conference.
Frontier Conference Tournament All-Tournament Team …

A junior at Bellevue, Brown started all 54 games at catcher in her first season at Bellevue, a NAIA school located in Bellevue Nebraska.

Brown batted .460 with a .510 on-base percentage and .781 slugging percentage.

She totaled 86 hits, 43 runs, 29 doubles, two triples, nine home runs, 40 RBIs, 18 walks, and 146 total bases. She led her team in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, hits, doubles, runs scored, and total bases, while ranking second in home runs and RBIs

She finished with 28 multi-hit games, 12 multi-RBI games, and nine games with a home run, She set BU single-season records for batting average and doubles, while also ranking fourth in hits, fifth in on-base percentage, sixth in total bases, and 10th in slugging percentage on the program’s single-season records chart.

A graduate of Chatham-Kent Secondary School, Brown played with the Chatham Golden Eagles program and Woodstock D1 Nationals, before spending her freshman and sophomore years at Kankakee Community College.

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The Chatham International Children’s Games Committee has announced the athletes and coaches who will represent Team Chatham at the International Children’s Games in August 2026 in Hualien, Taiwan. Participation in the International Children’s Games provides far more than athletic competition.

Athletes will serve as ambassadors for Chatham, southwestern Ontario, and Canada while engaging with youth from around the world and gaining valuable experiences in teamwork, leadership, and cultural understanding.

Team Chatham will be represented by athletes from the Chatham Pool Sharks Swim Team and the Chatham Wildcats Basketball organization. The delegation will compete in swimming and girls’ 3×3 basketball, highlighting the strong depth of athletic talent and community support across the municipality.

The swim team roster consists of Liam Praill, Caellum Brennan, Finnegan Brennan, head coach Bob Lavoie, Renee Egunjobi, Clara Jennen, Olivia Bezaire, and Kallie Barros.

The girls’ 3×3 basketball team consists of Callie McMullin, Kiki White, Zuri Willder,

Chatham is among the few communities in southwestern Ontario sending multiple sports to the Games, reflecting the strength of local athletic development programs and the community’s continued commitment to youth sport, inclusion, and active living.

The athletes and coaches will be recognized at Chatham-Kent council on Monday, May 25, at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers at the Chatham Civic Centre.

The Games are internationally recognized for their lasting impact on young athletes, many of whom go on to become coaches, mentors, and community leaders. The Committee is confident the experience will benefit Team Chatham as athletes return home with new skills, perspectives, and inspiration.

The Chatham International Children’s Games Committee proudly supports the athletes and coaches
representing the municipality abroad and encourages residents to cheer on Team Chatham through
upcoming fundraising initiatives.

For a full list of upcoming events, visit www.teamchathamicg.net.

Upcoming Fundraisers
• May 28th – Swimming Celebrity Servers at Boston Pizza
June 4 — Basketball Celebrity Servers at Boston Pizza
June 12 — Sobeys BBQ, 4–7 p.m.
June 13 — “The Big Shot” at Sons of Kent 9th Anniversary Party
June 16 — Trivia Night at Sons of Kent, 7–9 p.m.
June 19 — Sobeys BBQ 4-7pm • July 12 — Sobeys BBQ, 10–3 p.m.

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