Gerry Inglis

It probably isn’t a coincidence that many of the players whom Gerry Inglis coached on several provincial-champion Georgetown hockey teams went on to be successful bench bosses themselves.

Inglis, 79, imparted the determination to win and the desire required by his charges that resulted in several OHA titles at the midget, Jr. C and Intermediate A levels.

He was named the 1982 Georgetown Hockey Heritage Award recipient, just a couple of months before he served as head coach for the Town’s most famous on-ice triumph, the Intermediate Raiders’ Hardy Cup Canadian championship.

A successful stone mason who grew up in Glen Williams, Inglis’s knack for winning began as a heady blueliner for two Georgetown Intermediate A clubs in the 1950s that won two J. Ross Robertson Cups and he suited up with Bradford for another in 1964.