Randy Stewart

Biography:

Randy has had a 32-year history of involvement in Kingston Minor Hockey as a hockey coach and volunteer. He has served as his players’ life coach, community involvement planner and travel coordinator among other leadership skills. His dedication to his players and personal involvement in making their minor hockey experience a positive one is reflected in the memories of everyone who played for Randy.

He frequently arranged international travel and logistical details for his teams to attend tournaments in Europe and other parts of Canada. In 1985, his team, the ACT Travellers Minor Midget came home with a bronze medal from the Cumulus Cup in Finland.

Other long-distance travel opportunities for his players included trips to Sweden and Russia as well as Abbotsford, B.C., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Port Huron, Michigan. Randy became well known for his pin collection from those trips and, at the end of his coaching career he donated more than his 2,800 pins to the Kingston Township Minor Hockey Association which are on display at the Cataraqui Recreation Centre.

Randy also served as coach of the Amherstview Jets for nine seasons.

He has been recognized for his commitment to his sport with a Celebration ’88 Certificate of Merit by the Province of Ontario, The Township of Kingston Civic award in 1989, recognition by the Kingston Township Minor Hockey Association for having coached 1,000 games, a Kiwanis Sports Builder Award and a 3M Coaching Recognition Award.

Randy is remembered by his former players from the life lessons he taught and by the way he carried himself with his calm and professional demeanor and what his expectations were. For more than 30 years he has made his hockey players better citizens and ambassadors of the sport that Randy loved, both on and off the ice.