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Bill Leithead began playing hockey on the lakes and ponds near Guelph, Ontario.
He played at the university level at Guelph and Laurier, and Intermediate hockey in the South Western Ontario League.
A lifelong center #9, he has remained active in the game for decades and has been a member of the Burlington Oldtimers Hockey Club (BOHC) for approximately 40 years.
Hockey has helped him build lasting
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Martin "Marty" Lipinski has been a hockey lifer since his days as a defenseman for the University of Illinois hockey club in the late 1960s — competing against varsity opponents under NCAA rules.
After Illinois, Marty built a distinguished academic career as a Professor and Director Emeritus of the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis, earning both a P.E. and Ph
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Pat Long is the founder of Long Hockey, a community he built over 30 years ago that continues to thrive today.
What began as a local skate has grown into a structured hockey network where players now skate six mornings a week across all ages and skill levels.
As a board member of the USA 80+ Hockey Hall of Fame, Pat's leadership and dedication to bringing players together has helped make the 80+ H
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Clayton Mannausau grew up in a small town in northern Minnesota near the Canadian border, where hockey was woven into the culture from the start.
He's never stopped playing — today he skates weekly alongside players half his age and remains an active member of the USA 80+ hockey team, competing internationally.
His lifelong commitment to the game reflects both a deep passion for hockey and a belie
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Nicolas Matossian has had an 80-year hockey journey spanning league play, tournaments, clinics, coaching, organizing, and charitable leadership.
For more than five decades as an Old Timers player, organizer, and community builder, playing over 5,000 league games throughout Canada, the US and Europe.
He co-founded SWAT (Senior Westmount Allstar Team) in Montreal, and launched SWAT-Westmount Old Time
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Judy McNeish played in the Denver Women's Hockey League ( DWHL ) and some tournament hockey until age 68.
She then moved to Kentucky where there was nowhere to play.
During her time in Denver, she played right defense.
Career Highlights
- Teams: All teams in Denver
- Played quite a few tournaments in Canada.
- 14 years years of active hockey
- Inducted into the USA 80+ Hockey Hall of Fame, Class of 2026
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Gary Mitchener was born in Lansing, Michigan, where winters meant one thing: hockey. Growing up next to a city park that flooded every season, Gary cannot remember a time when he was not on the ice.
He began organized play at Michigan State University's arena around age seven and never looked back. Over the next seven decades, Gary competed in adult leagues across MI, IL and IN.
His most distinguis
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Robert R. "Bob" Priestley of Pocasset, MA at age 82, playing with a 101-degree fever in the deciding game of a championship, he scored the tying goal with 34 seconds left — sending Team USA to victory over Canada on wins differential.
Bob has traveled the world with hockey. As a member of the Cape Cod Sharks from Falmouth, he competed in Iceland (2016), the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Austria (201
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Bonnie Shea, is a trailblazing 81 year ice hockey player from Duluth, MN.
Bonnie skates two to three times a week, playing as center in a co-ed league.
She is three times the age of some of her teammates. Off the ice she curls, downhill skis, golfs, and tends to her lakeside property.
"Hockey is in my blood. I had the opportunity to play, they took it away from me once, and I'm not going to have th
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Linda Sinrod played for The Washington Redcoats, the first woman's ice hockey team in the Washington DC area at the age of 35, she was the oldest by at least 10 years.
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Warren Smith, grew up in Tranquille, a small town on Kamloops Lake in British Columbia, where he learned to skate on ponds and outdoor ice flooded by local firemen from a hydrant.
After moving to Santa Rosa, California in 1976, Warren was invited by Sparky Schulz to join Tuesday night hockey and has participated ever since. He has played in all but one Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament since
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Roland Thibault's love of hockey started on the outdoor rinks of Lewiston, Maine, where he first laced up skates at age 8.
Off the ice, Roland's connection to hockey took a uniquely American turn. Through his friendship with Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, a new character named Thibault was introduced to the to the beloved comic strip in 1970 — a hockey-playing kid who announces to Snoopy, "Thi
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Richard Thibeau, grew up in Winthrop, MA. His older brother Robert taught him how to play hockey. He started playing at age 15 on a nearby lake, then moved on to Lynn and Boston arenas.
For the past 53 years he has played weekly at Larsen Rink, where at age 80, he is still the oldest player on the ice — and he still uses a wooden stick.
“I believe being a good teammate matters greatly, you do not ha