Gloucester Ottawa Lacrosse

About

Wayne Gretzky on Lacrosse.

"If sport has a high point of the year, it must be the first week of spring." "...When I was growing up, I used to love this time of year. It was when I put my hockey equipment away and I was absolutely ecstatic to see the end of the hockey season. One of the worst things to happen to the game, in my opinion, has been year-round hockey and, in particular, summer hockey."All it does for kids, as far as I can tell, is keep them out of sports they should be doing in warmer weather. I could hardly wait to get my lacrosse stick out and start throwing the ball around. It didn't matter how cold or rainy it would be, we'd be out firing the ball against walls and working on our moves as we played the lacrosse equivalent to road hockey." "All the good hockey players seemed to play lacrosse in those days and every one of them learned something from the game to carry over to the other - things athletes can only learn by mixing up games they play when they are young."

Wayne Gretzky,
The Great One.

History of the GLA

• 1970 – GLA is started by Bill Meighen, Bill Maitland and Ray Broadworth to provide lacrosse for residents of the Gloucester Township
•         (competitive teams play as the Gloucester Rangers in the Seaway Valley Lacrosse League)
• 1974 – GLA bantams win the Ontario Bantam E championships
• 1975 – GLA bantams win the OLA Bantam C championships vs Whitby
• 1976 – GLA competitive teams become the Gloucester Griffins
• GLA puts all players in their HL and initiate City wide teams in South Ottawa, Alta Vista, Canterbury, South Gloucester, Blackburn and North Gloucester
• GLA initiates and hosts the first ever Bantam National Championship to supplement the CLA championships at the PW and Midget levels and convinces the RCMP Commissioner to donate the Commissioner’s Cup to be emblematic of the Canadian Bantam supremacy. Teams from PEI, NB, NS, Sask., BC, Man. And Ont. Participate – Rexdale wins the A Championship.
• 1977 – GLA midgets attend Midget National Championships in Brantford and advance to finish 6^th in the A Division.
• 1978 – Gloucester Griffins Junior Lacrosse Club begins operations in the Eastern division of the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League
• 1979 – GLA peewees attend Canadian National Pee Wee Championships in Peterborough, lose in C semi-finals
• 1980 – GLA peewees attend Canadian National Pee Wee Championships in Burnaby, win the bronze in the C division.
• 1982 – GLA bantams win the Bantam National Qualifier tournament in the B division
• GLA bantams attend Canadian National Bantam Championships in Burlington and advance to finish 6^th in the A division.
• 1984 – GLA hosts the Canadian National Midget Championships.
• GLA midgets finish 6^th in the A division.
• XXXX – GLA hosts Ontario Pee Wee Provincial Championships
• c. 1999 – GLA peewees win the C Provincial Championship
• 2005 – GLA intermediates win the Ontario Provincial C Championships
• GLA peewees win the Ontario Provincial C Championships
• GLA midgets attend the Provincial midget A Qualifiers.
• 2006 GLA Novice advance to semi-finals and finish 4^th in the Ontario C Provincial Championships
• 2007 GLA Peewee D wins Provincial championship

This is an incomplete listing and we would welcome any input for missing history points. Please submit information to the VP House League on the contacts Page.